Open Educational Resources and AusGOAL

Open Educational Resources and AusGOAL

Open Educational Resources and AusGOAL5 November 2015Delia Browne (NCU) and Baden Appleyard (AusGOAL)

#GoOpen

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenNational Copyright UnitThe Ministers Copyright Advisory Group (CAG), through the NCU, is responsible for copyright policy and administration for the Australian school and TAFE sector. This involves:Managing the obligations under the educational copyright licenses with collecting societiesAdvocating for better copyright laws on the School and TAFE sectors behalf Educating the School and TAFE sector regarding their copyright responsibilitiesNCU is Education Lead for Creative Commons AustraliaDevelop and Implement Smartcopying practicesSupport and promoting AusGOAL to Government Departments and AgenciesAdvocating OER in Australia

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpen

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenAusGOAL What is it?Encourage re-use of publicly funded information by:Providing a policy framework and implementation programme to open publicly funded informationAssisting you to make appropriate licensing decisions that enable the re-use of that information by the wider communityReducing legal risk by identifying and protecting personal and other confidential information in the licensing selection processAssisting information re-users to understand its lawful reuseMaking information searchable and accessibleAll States and Territories in Australia have endorsed AusGOAL

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenAusGOAL Why Does it Exist?Need to know has been replaced by need to shareBenefits the community socially and economicallyEnhances democracy and democratic processesImproving government service deliveryReduces government wasteReduces the cost of information management to governmentIntroduces efficiencies into administrative processes

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenAusGOAL Why Does it Exist?Establishes more efficient information transfer relationships across jurisdictions, sectors and with the communityEnables innovation in government and in the communityMay risk cross-jurisdictional programmes and fundingAusGOAL is the CC Australia Affiliate Lead for Publicly Funded Information

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenAusGOAL Recommends CC LicencesCC licences are readily available and under exceptional stewardship with expert legal support.Developing a bespoke licence and maintaining a bespoke open licence is costly, time and resource consuming.CC has established and well understood licences and has developed an infrastructure around the licence suite to support human readable and machine readable capability. This is very important for data where machine to machine analysis is becoming more common.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenAusGOAL Recommends CC LicencesCC licences are available in 59 languages. Australia is a multicultural country and this is also very important for global reuse, which drives economic development and interest.Creative Commons Licences take into account international conventions, legislation and case law that may change over time which modify the interpretation of the licences and this stewardship is ongoing.Any Government special issues can be met by supplementary notice to a CC licence - eg Trademarks, Logos, Government Coat of arms or operational/tortious issues (eg Not intended for maritime navigational purposes).

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenAusGOAL Recommends CC LicencesCC licences are recognised as an international standard. Australia keen not to contribute to Licence proliferation . Licence proliferation is an anathema to open access because even the slightest incompatibilities can cause problems when a lot of source content is mixed together.CC licences have the benefit of review by legal scholars, practitioners and the community from all over the world to ensure that its interpretation is consistent globally.CC 4.0 Licence suite provides a level of certainty regardless of country location or language. CC Licence's are drafted so that they will be interpreted consistently all over the world, when data and information does not recognise geographic borders. Some bespoke licences operate largely domestic licences, which is of little longer term and wider benefit.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenA simple, standardisedway to grant copyright permissions to your creative work.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenOpen licences key aspect of this eg Creative Commons

Creative Commons works to make it easy for creators to share to realize the full potential of the internet universal access to research, education, full participation in culture to drive a new era of development, growth, and productivity.

CC Licenses make it easy and legal to share and, as we all know, the core part of any OER definition is the educational resource is either

Open license

In the public domain

So anyone can: reuse, revise, remix and redistribute.

CC offers free tools that allow artists, musicians, journalists, educators and others share content on more flexible terms than default all rights reserved copyrightits important to note that CC Licenses are not a substitute for copyright; theyre built on top of copyright lawtheres 2 steps to applying a creative commons license to your work

Text by Cable Green Licensed under CC-BY

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Attribution

Non-Commercial

No Derivative Works

Share AlikeStep 1: Choose Your Licence Conditions

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpencan do this right at creativecommons.org via our license chooser enginestep 1 is to choose the conditions that you want to attach to the workall cc licenses require attribution to the original author of the workafter that users can decide which conditions they want to apply, aka whether to prohibit commercial uses, whether to require that downstream users also reshare, whether the work should only be able to be redistributed as-is11

Step 2: Choose Your Licence

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenstep 2 is to simply receive the licensethere are 6 CC licenses that reflect a spectrum of rightsfor the photos I share on Flickr, I use the Attribution only license, which means that anyone can download, copy, distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon them, even commercially, as long as they give me credit

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Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenOER isteaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open licence that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenFrom: www.oercommons.org

What are Open Educational Resources?

Resources created and released openly open license is key.

Free as in free beer (no cost) and free as in freedom (free to use, repurpose and re-share)

Commonly defined as digital materials offered free for educators, students and self learners to use, re-use and re-distribute for teaching, learning and research. They often rely on the use of common "open" licences, such as the Creative Commons licences. They are different to traditional distribution models which generally require remuneration and largely restrict the rights of end-users to copy, re-use and re-purpose material.

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Definition of OERWilliam and Flora Hewlett Foundation Definition "OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge."

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenOER Fundamental ValuesResources are free for any individual to useAre licensed for unrestricted distributionPossibility of adaptation, translation, re-mix, and improvement.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenOpen Educational ResourcesSafer: free to reuse, remix, redistribute and adapt education resources without running the risk of breaching the complex copyright rules.Internet compatible: it is better adapted to the Internet and the freedom which the Internet provides to copy, distribute, adapt and remix resources.Enabler: enables educators to reuse, remix and adapt resources since the copyright owner has already given permission to everyone.Accessible: over 800 million CC-licensed works.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenOpen Educational ResourcesCollaborative: encourages collaboration and creates communities based on sharing of education resources Cheaper: saves money on copyright fees and administrative costs of seeking permission and allows education resources to be shared freely online with very low transaction costs.Equitable: offers equal access to knowledge for everyone and allows for education resources to be adapted for minorities and those with disabilities.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenInternational Recognition and Endorsement of OER Key Documents2007 Cape Town Declaration on Open Education2012 Paris Declaration on Open Education ResourcesUNESCO Guidelines on OER

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpen2007 Cape Town Declaration on Open Education [ insert link]2012 Paris Declaration on Open Education Resources http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/Events/Paris%20OER%20Declaration_01.pdfUnesco Guidelines on OER http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/publications-and-communication-materials/publications/full-list/guidelines-for-open-educational-resources-oer-in-higher-education/

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Whitehouse National Action PlanExpand Access to Educational Resources through Open Licensing and Technology (p.3)Open educational resources are an investment in sustainable human development; they have the potential to increase access to high-quality education and reduce the cost of educational opportunities around the world. Open educational resources can expand access to key educational materials, enabling the domestic and international communities to attain skills and more easily access meaningful learning opportunities. The United States has worked collaboratively with domestic and international civil society stakeholders to encourage open education initiatives. Building on that momentum, the United States will openly license more Federal grant supported education materials and resources, making them widely and freely available. In addition to convening stakeholders to encourage further open education efforts, the United States will publish best practices and tools for agencies interested in developing grant-supported open licensing projects, detailing how they can integrate open licensing into projects from technical and legal perspectives.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenUS OERThe US Education Department and Whitehouse #GoOpen CampaignTheU.S. Department of Educationannounced today the launch of #GoOpen, a campaign to encourage states, school districts and educators to use openly licensed educational materials. As part of the campaign, the Department is proposing a new regulation that would require all copyrightable intellectual property created with Department grant funds to have an open license.In order to ensure that all students no matter their zip code have access to high-quality learning resources, we are encouraging districts and states to move away from traditional textbooks and toward freely accessible, openly-licensed materials, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said. Districts across the country are transforming learning by using materials that can be constantly updated and adjusted to meet students needs.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenEU OER2013 EC Opening Up Education Aim to increase the use of digital technologies for learning and spur development of OER and policies in EUEnsures all educational material is supported by Erasmus+, openly licensed and promotion of educational materials across Europe. Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020 encourage partnerships between educational content producers (eg teachers, publishers, ICT companies) to increase the supply of OER in different languages,Develop new business models and technical solutions that provide transparent information on and open licensesLaunch of open Education Europa portal to OER repositories and quality OER produced in EU

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpen5 Rs FrameworkOER meet the 5Rs Framework, meaning that users are free to:Retain:Users have the right to make, archive, and "own" copies of the content;Reuse:Content can be reused in its unaltered form;Revise: Content can be adapted, adjusted, modified or altered;Remix: The original or revised content can be combined with other content to create something new; andRedistribute: Copies of the content can be shared with others in its original, revised

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenThe 3 Key Potentials of OEROER harnesses the new possibility afforded by digital technology to address common educational challenges. OER are a catalyst for social innovation, which can facilitate changed forms of interaction between teachers, learners and knowledge. OER have an extended lifecycle beyond their original design and purpose. The process of distribution, adaptation and iteration can improve access to high quality, context-appropriate educational materials for all.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpen6 Ways OER Overcomes Educational ChallengesFostering the use of new forms of learning for the 21st century Fostering teachers professional development and engagementContaining public and private costs of education Continually improving the quality of educational resources Widening the distribution of high quality educational resources Reducing barriers to learning opportunities

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenWhy Should the School Sector Adopt OER PolicyIt will serve to reduce School sector Part VB licences fees;It will reduce the risk of copyright infringement; It will enables wider sharing and reuse of teaching and learning resources by parents, teachers, students, schools and administering bodies;It will not prevent administering bodies from cost recovery and commercialisation activities. It guarantees resources committed to the development of OER materials can be recouped by commercialisation or cost recovery if desired;It will permit students, teachers, parents and administering bodies to share, adapt and use without fear of copyright infringement;

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenWhy Should School Sector Adopt OER PolicyIt will enable parents of disadvantaged students or students with learning difficulties to have access to resources outside of the school setting, to improve their students educational outcomes;It will provide a better return to taxpayers;It will bring Australia into alignment with other developed countries, such as the United States, that have already mandated adoption of OER; andImplementation and adoption of a national OER policy will support the aims of the Smartcopying Report: to manage and control the costs of print and digital copying at the school system level while still providing appropriate access to materials that support desired educational outcomes.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenWhy Should the School Sector Adopt OER PolicyIt will provide a better return to taxpayers;It will bring Australia into alignment with other developed countries, such as the United States, that have already mandated adoption of OER; andImplementation and adoption of a national OER policy will support the aims of the Smartcopying Report: to manage and control the costs of print and digital copying at the school system level while still providing appropriate access to materials that support desired educational outcomes.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenOER Benefits for Australian School SectorEscalating copyright licence fees due to increased use of ICT in schools, digital and online material.Increased risk of copyright infringement by parents, teachers, schools and administering bodies: eg. publishing material on the Internet, posting material on social media, sharing material on wikis and in the cloud, copying and communicating material in excess of the permitted amounts.The Copyright Act prevents sharing and adoption of teaching and learning material in the digital world - The Copyright Act not fit for school purposes (no fair use);The current copyright regime penalises schools for using new technologies;

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenOER Benefits for Australian School SectorThe Departments of Education have no control over the amount of copying done at the school level;Schools have no incentive to manage the amount of copying done under the copyright licences as the departments and administering bodies pay the licence fees to collecting societies on behalf of the schools; Inability to adapt materials for classroom use or share teaching and learning resources with other schools, organisations or parents. Departments and Catholic administering bodies unable to share resources nationally due to embedded third party material; and

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenPolicy Objectives of OERAligning OER to key educational challengesEnsure sustainability of OER initiativesIntegrating OER into the whole of learning settingSupporting teachers and learnersSaving costs in producing/purchasing contentSaving costs under Australia education statutory licencesImproving quality of educational resourcesReduces risk of copyright non compliance

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenOER Maturity in Australia Room to GrowAustralia is one of the signatories of the Paris Declaration on Open Education ResourcesAll State and Territory Departments of Education have endorsed AusGOAL All Australian Departments of Education to licence their websites and publications under CC BY 4.0 where possible. Already completed: Tasmania, South Australia, New South Wales,Queensland, Western Australia,Victoriaand theAustralian GovernmentThe non- government school sector is also beginning to license their learning resources under CC licenses to ensure wider sharing The Australian Schools sector is actively encouraged to use OER in preference to closed publicly funded educational resources. See http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenAusGOAL = Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework

One of the key policy objectives of AusGOAL is that for publicly funded information to be openly licensed using the most flexible Creative Commons licence CC BY or CC BY SA. Government agencies are required to choose the most open Creative Commons licence unless there are very specific reasons to apply a more restrictive licence.

There is growing use and creation of OER in Australia. Recently the Australian Departments of Education agreed to licence their websites and publications under CC BY 4.0 where possible. Tasmania, South Australia and Qld Departments of Education have licenced their websites under CC BY 4.0 and the other states/territories are in the process of implementation. Many of the Departments of Education and non- government school sector are beginning to license their learning resources under Creative Commons licenses to ensure wider sharing and building of knowledge.

Other OER initiatives include Education Services Australia licensing more than 1600 digital learning resources from the national digital resources collection under CC licences (with hopefully many more to come). These CC licenced resources are available from Scootle (http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/lobjects.htm). The Australian Curriculum (www.australiancurriculum.edu.au) is also licensed under a CC BY NC SA licence in order to ensure that the curriculum is widely accessible to teachers and schools and to facilitate the development of teaching and learning resources. NCU expects to see more and more publicly funded educational resources licenced under Creative Commons licences.

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OER Maturity in Australia Room to GrowOther OER initiatives include:Education Services Australia licensing more than 1600 digital learning resources from the national digital resources collection under CC licences (http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/lobjects.htm)The Australian Curriculum (www.australiancurriculum.edu.au) is licensed under a CC BY NC SA licenceACARA is in the process of licensing www.acara.edu.au; www.naplan.edu.au; www.australiancurriculum.edu.au under CC BY 4.0 The National Copyright Unit actively encourages businesses and organisations who wish to provide educational resources to the school sector to also licence their material under either CC BY or CC BY SA. Recent organisations include UNICEF Australia and the National Rugby League.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenAusGOAL = Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework

One of the key policy objectives of AusGOAL is that for publicly funded information to be openly licensed using the most flexible Creative Commons licence CC BY or CC BY SA. Government agencies are required to choose the most open Creative Commons licence unless there are very specific reasons to apply a more restrictive licence.

There is growing use and creation of OER in Australia. Recently the Australian Departments of Education agreed to licence their websites and publications under CC BY 4.0 where possible. Tasmania, South Australia and Qld Departments of Education have licenced their websites under CC BY 4.0 and the other states/territories are in the process of implementation. Many of the Departments of Education and non- government school sector are beginning to license their learning resources under Creative Commons licenses to ensure wider sharing and building of knowledge.

Other OER initiatives include Education Services Australia licensing more than 1600 digital learning resources from the national digital resources collection under CC licences (with hopefully many more to come). These CC licenced resources are available from Scootle (http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/lobjects.htm). The Australian Curriculum (www.australiancurriculum.edu.au) is also licensed under a CC BY NC SA licence in order to ensure that the curriculum is widely accessible to teachers and schools and to facilitate the development of teaching and learning resources. NCU expects to see more and more publicly funded educational resources licenced under Creative Commons licences.

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OER Procurement AgreementsFirst, run the film backwards! Do you want teachers, parents and students to engage with and share the material? Yes!What do you need to ensure happens in the development process to enable that reuse? OIOO!Consider whether the Commonwealth or the contracted party should own the copyright and license back. Define Open Terms.Introduce IP Registers, but OER nested materials should be sourced in preference.Check compliance.Refer out for support eg. AusGOAL.



Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenOER Grant / Funding AgreementsSimilar contractual provisions may be necessary for grant funding. Make your expectations clear.Some policy and procedure documents in resources folder.Compliance important, but not onerous.

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenOER Implementation Tools in AustraliaNew OER Toolkit for teachers, e learning and curriculum developersAusGOAL developing template clauses in procurement and funding agreementsAusGOALs New Microsoft Add-in for Creative Commons 4.0 Licenses

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenMS Word Add-in

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenLooking Forward: More AusGOAL and OER is NeededBroader implementation of AusGOALNew Microsoft Office Add-in for Creative Commons 4.0 LicencesDevelop CC add-ons for Google Docs, OpenOffice and LibreOffice etcOngoing training / education on AusGOAL in government and research for lawyers, policy makers, corporate communication areas, IT Engage and educate GLAM sector in AusGOAL- allow access, reuse and sharing of PD and CC licensed materialInitiate certification programmes for staff and agencies

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenLooking Forward: More AusGOAL and OER is NeededReviewing IP policies in Departments of Education and Schools, and expanding OER policy to encourage Schools and Teachers to licence teaching and learning material under Creative CommonsSpecialist training in Departments of Education and non government school sector on CC licensing e-learning, curriculum, communications and IT areasAmend procurement policies and funding agreements to require that Public funded information is released under the CC-BY licence, inclusive of nested materials

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenSlides available @ http://www.slideshare.net/nationalcopyrightunit/National Copyright Unit Slideshare

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenUseful LinksOER in AustraliaOER Toolkit for teachers, e learning and curriculum developersCreative Commons Information Pack for teachers and studentsWhere to find CC licensed materials Videos on OER

Smartcopying.edu.auNational Copyright Unit#GoOpenMore Information and AssistanceDelia BrowneNational Copyright [email protected]+61 (02) 9561 8876www.smartcopying.edu.au

Baden AppleyardNational Programme Director, [email protected]+61459824061www.ausgoal.gov.au


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