This document discusses open educational resources and licenses. It provides information on Creative Commons licenses and their compatibility issues. It also summarizes the LeMill project for sharing open educational content and its growth. Additionally, it explores using Wikiversity for open online courses and developing open education ecosystems at the course, content, institute, and national levels.
How TLU could participate in the open education movement?
1. How TLU could participate in the
open education movement?
Hans Põldoja
2. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share
Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative
Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California,
94105, USA.
8. Latest developments with open content licenses
Current state of LeMill project
Wikiversity and open online courses
Open education ecosystem (egosystem?)
Future perspectives
14. Approximate Distribution of
Copyleft Licenses for Content
26%
Attribution–Noncommercial–ShareAlike
48% Attribution–ShareAlike
GNU Free Documentation License
26%
(Wiley, 2007)
15. You can’t remix them
GNU Creative Commons Creative Commons
Free Documentation Attribution–ShareAlike Attribution–Noncommercial–
License license ShareAlike license
Wikipedia LeMill MIT OCW
Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons USU OCW (partly)
(partly) (partly)
USU OCW (partly)
16.
17. Solutions
• Remix and publish your work inside one Creative
Commons license
• Double licensing: make your work available under
two licenses (Creative Commons Attribution-
ShareAlike and GNU Free Documentation
License)
22. Latest developments with open content licenses
Current state of LeMill project
Wikiversity and open online courses
Open education ecosystem (egosystem?)
Future perspectives
31. More than content
• Methods
• Tools
• Collections
• Teaching and
learning stories
32.
33.
34.
35.
36. LeMill as a social software
• Linking people by
location, skills and
interests
• Groups for
collaborative
authoring
• Group forums
37.
38.
39. Members
6000
5265
4708
4500
2959
3000 2796
2337
1698
1500
867
666
465 414
374
364
359
343
273
242
111
105
89
65
27 18
5
4
0
Jul 2006 Jan 2007 Jul 2007 Jan 2008 Jul 2008 Jan 2009
Estonia Total
40. Members by specified country
20%
36%
5%
5%
5%
11%
18%
Estonia Georgia Hungary Finland Czech Republic Lithuania Other
41.
42.
43. LeMill development in 2008-09
• New templates (lesson plan, school project)
• New content types (print resource)
• Workflow enhancements
• PowerPoint to Web
• Collections to PDF
• ...
44. Possible use in IFI
• Lecture notes for courses and inservice teacher
trainings (Web page)
• Planning the courses (Lesson plan)
• Descriptions of tools
• Collections
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46.
47.
48. Latest developments with open content licenses
Current state of LeMill project
Wikiversity and open online courses
Open education ecosystem (egosystem?)
Future perspectives
62. Using Wikiversity on TLU
courses
• Wikiversity is an open learning community, not a
free wiki hosting
• Promoting Wikiversity courses
• Using Wikiversity on traditional courses
63. Latest developments with open content licenses
Current state of LeMill project
Wikiversity and open online courses
Open education ecosystem (egosystem?)
Future perspectives
69. Reusing open content
12 500 000
BY
4 200 000 9000
8 400 000
media files content modules
BY-SA
photos
Embedding copyrighted content
70. Latest developments with open content licenses
Current state of LeMill project
Wikiversity and open online courses
Open education ecosystem (egosystem?)
Future perspectives
71. Institute level
• Changing the work contracts
• Rising the awareness of lecturers
• Using LeMill for publishing lecture notes
• Setting up and promoting open courses
72. University level
• Providing an open alternative to IVA (Elgg?)
• Rethinking the Virtual University
73. National level
• Setting up OpenCourseWare for higher and
vocational education
74. References
• Creative Commons (2007). Frequently Asked Questions. http://
wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ
• Schaffert, S., Geser, G. (2008). Open Educational Resources and Practices.
eLearning Papers, 7. http://www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/
media14907.pdf
• Wiley, D. (2007). Open Education License Draft. http://opencontent.org/blog/
archives/355
75. Photos
• Ethan Lofton, http://www.flickr.com/photos/eleaf/2536358399/
• Ben Zvan, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben-zvan-photography/468487548/
• Beth Kanter, http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/312407445/
• Marco Gomes, http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcogomes/3024603255/
• Francois Schnell, http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchy/98932572/
• Michael Vroegop, http://www.flickr.com/photos/vrogy/514733529/
• Steve Jurvetson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/3277667570/