Open Educational Resources in higher tertiary education in Greece
By
Dr. Marinos Papadopoulos
Attorney-at-Law JD, MSc, PhD/JSD
Open Knowledge Foundation Greece
OERs & pre-formatted licensing
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The conditional use of works and resources in the case of
educational resources available in an information
commons is a distinctive characteristic of the “Open
Educational Resources” and could, probably, best be served
through the use of use of standard licenses, i.e. pre-
formatted licenses which are available for use ‘as-is’.
OERs has the potential to transform higher education and
create new competition and centers of excellence among
universities.
European MOOC Initiative by the European Association of
Distance Teaching Universities
OER’s elements
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1. Learning content such as full courses, courseware packs,
content modules, collections, journals etc.
2. Tools such as software to support the development, use
and reuse, delivery of content, searching mechanisms for
locating content, learning management systems, content
development tools, communities for content aggregation
etc.
3. Implementation resources such as the Creative Commons
or Open Knowledge licenses which promote open
publishing of materials, design principles and policies that
mandate the provisions upon which content is accessible
and available for use, reuse, adaptation etc.
OER’s freedoms
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1. The freedom to study a work and apply knowledge offered
from it.
2. The freedom to redistribute copies, in whole or in part, of a
work.
3. The freedom to make improvements or other changes, i.e.
to make adaptations, to the content of a work, and to
release modified copies of it.
OERs in tertiary education in Greece
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Sporadic attempts to make available OERs in the
academic environment of tertiary education in Greece, so
far.
The first endeavors regarding OERs in Greece came over in
2000 in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the
National Kapodistrian University of Athens.
An estimation of the current amount of open educational
resources which are based on relevant institutional
repositories in Greece is 62 in total.
OERs in tertiary education in Greece
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Younger people are more familiar with new technologies
and OER creation and management.
There is OER respective information lack.
Economic issues seem to be a factor of a great importance
for the perceived creation and use of OERs in the
academic environment in Greece.
Academia in Greek public colleges are quite productive as
far as the educational and research content are concerned
and show high interest in OER creation, though not
through a coordinated manner due to OER policy lack.
Faculties appear to be ready to take action regarding
educational and research content creation and
management.
Faculties believe that OER creation, use and sharing
enhance academic goals.
Kallipos & OERs in Greece
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The Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEALlink) has
created “Kallipos” (see http://www.kallipos.gr/) which is
a repository of OERs in the Greek academic environment.
The purpose of “Kallipos” action is the production and
delivery of Open Access electronic books, i.e. the creation
of OERs which will be used by the students of Greek
Universities (Universities and TEI).
“Kallipos” provides funding for the composition and
availability after proper licensing of OERs in the academic
environment of tertiary education in Greece.
Beneficiaries for OER-production in Kallipos
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1. Teachers and University Lecturers
2. Professors and Visiting Professors
3. Emeritus and Retired Professors
4. Special Class Lecturers
5. Special Scientists (with doctoral degrees)
6. Researchers and Professors from foreign institutions.
Criteria for OER-production in Kallipos
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1. Relate to at least one undergraduate level course of either
a Department or a Program of Study and/or belongs to at
least one of the respective scientific categories included in
the Subject invitations.
2. It is possible to use the e-Book for the teaching of more
than one course at undergraduate level in similar
Departments / Programs of Study.
3. The content covers required syllabus.
4. Capitalize on as many new technologies as possible and
make use of interactive and multimedia learning objects.
Characteristics for OER produced in Kallipos
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1. They are books in digital format, readable by electronic
devices
2. They include multimedia (images, sounds, videos, graphs)
and/or interactive objects.
3. They have the opportunity for interactivity and ease of
navigation, such as search, add and share notes, and to
link to external information resources.
4. Each chapter and interactive e-book object may constitute
an independent “learning object” that could be detached
and reused in another book or become available on the
internet or another electronic medium.
Financing OER production in Kallipos
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The maximum funding amount of a positively-evaluated
proposal is ten thousand euro (€ 10000), including the fees
for the Critical Reader which is € 1000.
The maximum fee that a person gets paid as an author
(main or co-author) is defined to fifteen thousand euro (€
15000).
The maximum remuneration of any activity either as a
writer, critical reader or assessor in the “Kallipos” Action
and throughout the duration of the project is twenty
thousand euro (€ 20000).
The level of remuneration for the other participants in the
authorial effort is determined by the senior author.
Members of Academic community in Kallipos
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Category Sum
Teaching Member of special category 219
Expert Scientist 288
Visiting or Emeritus Professor 80
Researcher from research organization in the Public Sector 27
Researcher from research organization in the Private Sector 19
Professor or Researcher from abroad 52
Professor or Lecturer from Greece 3090
Number of Registered Members 3775
Members of Academic community in Kallipos
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Academic Institution Sum
Aegean University 133
University of Western Macedonia 29
University of Thessaly 202
University of Ioannina 165
University of Crete 156
University of Macedonia 58
University of Patras 227
University of Piraeus 47
University of Peloponnese 64
Pantion University 65
Technical University of Crete 39
Technological Educational Institute of Athens 162
Eastern Macedonian and Thrace Institute of Technology 27
Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece 49
Technological Educational Institute of Western
Macedonia
32
Technological Educational Institute of Epirus 19
Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly 69
Technological Educational Institute of Ionian Islands 10
Members of Academic community in Kallipos
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Academic Institution Sum
Alexander Technological Educational Institute of
Thessaloniki
57
University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki 3
Athens School of Fine Arts 10
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 638
School of Pedagogical and Technological Education 20
Agricultural University of Athens 50
Democritus University of Thrace 159
International Hellenic University 3
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens 476
National Technical University 265
Hellenic Open University 51
Ionian University 49
Athens University of Economics and Business 40
Members of Academic community in Kallipos
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Academic Institution Sum
Technological Educational Institute of Central
Macedonia
32
Technological Educational Institute of Crete 64
Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus 45
Technological Educational Institute of Peloponnese 22
Technological Educational Institute of Central Greece 45
Harokopio University 45
Ν/Α 148
Sum 3775
Licensing options in Kallipos
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There is only the option of choosing between two among
the six Creative Commons licenses
1. The ported Greek version 3.0 of Creative Commons license Attribution—Non-Commercial—Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA
v.3.0) or
2. The ported Greek version 3.0 of Creative Commons license Attribution—Non-Commercial—No-Derivative (CC BY-NC-ND
v.3.0).
Licensing options in Kallipos
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I have produced and provide in the Annex of this conference
participation’s paper the Greek translation of the two Creative
Commons licenses version 4.0 used in Kallipos.
Attribution---Non-Commercial---Share Alike v.4.0 International
Αναφορά---Μη-Εμπορική χρήση---Παρόμοια Διανομή v.4.0 Διεθνής
Άδεια
Attribution---Non-Commercial---No derivative v.4.0 International
Αναφορά---Μη-Εμπορική χρήση---Όχι Παράγωγο έργο v.4.0 Διεθνής
Άδεια
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the speaker’s Academia account available at
https://independent.academia.edu/DrMarinosPapadopoulos
Open Educational Resources in higher tertiary education in Greece
Thank you!
Dr. Marinos Papadopoulos | Thessaloniki 2015