Hello Jackie – and a very happy new year to you. I’m really glad that you’ll still be hanging around the “open education” corner of the internet and look forward to hearing your take on the events of the next year!

 

I’m speaking on a panel with Simon Nelson of FutureLearn at the end of the month. I’ll ask him about OER and F/L MOOCs then. I might even ask him about assessment design too… ;-)

 

David

 

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David Kernohan

Jisc

 

From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jacqueline Carter
Sent: 06 January 2014 15:19
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Subject: Re: OERs and MOOCS

 

Hello All,

 

For those of you who have not seen the Jorum end of year blog post (http://www.jorum.ac.uk/blog/post/79/it-s-a-goodbye-from-me-and-a-goodbye-from-her-a-farewell-from-sarah-currier-and-jackie-carter) - you'll maybe not know that I am no longer Jorum Director. I am still however interested in all things open. 

 

David Kernohan and I mused over OER and MOOCs last year (in another Jorum blog post), this followed the well-atended Libraries and Moocs day at the British Library at which I spoke to FutureLearn's Technical Director (sorry - can't recall his name). It would be good to get him to respond to this list - can anyone forward him the thread? I understood that FutureLearn were supportive of both reuse and release (where permissions allowed) of OER - albeit that they did not expect to release all content under CC. We did talk about how the MOOC providers could work alongside the OER platforms to help the virtuous flow of content - and we (Jorum) planned to pick this up in 2014. I'll leave that to my successor - Dr Susanne Boyle (cc-ed). 

 

Happy New Year everyone.

 

Jackie

 

 

 

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From: Open Educational Resources [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Lorna M Campbell [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 06 January 2014 14:32
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Subject: Re: OERs and MOOCS

Hi Steve, PAt, 

 

Thanks, interesting to hear your experiences on using third party materials in MOOCs. I think this is the kind of info that a lot of people would find useful and would hopefully encourage them to consider using CC licensed material if they are planning on running MOOCs. 

 

Cheers

Lorna

 

On 6 Jan 2014, at 14:02, Pat Lockley wrote:

We also asked everyone we used - only the National Portrait Gallery said no (which I think was the right choice given their take on NC) - but we also told everyone we linked to what we had done and asked for how they wanted to be attributed.

 

We were concerned that a sudden MOOC user spike on a server might break it, or lead to confused google analytics reports.

 

Be interesting to see if the Delft stuff ties into http://ocw.tudelft.nl/ocw/courses/ as in Unis with existing OER schemes find MOOCs easier.

 

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Steven Stapleton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

For the Nottingham course we released our own content under CC and also used a lot of third party CC resources. As Lorna highlights below, that’s ok to do in line with the terms – and FutureLearn have been very supportive of our desire to do this.

 

Wherever we used third party non-commercial CC resources – we also contacted the rights holder to make sure they were happy with us using their NC material in a MOOC. There were a range of opinions on the need to do this on a thread on this list a while back. Personally, I would be happy for anyone to use our own NC CC content in an online course without asking us  - providing it wasn’t charging for access to the content. But to make sure we weren’t stepping over any lines with what owners of NC content wanted – we chose to ask them. Interestingly, not one person we contacted about using their NC resources had a problem with it – although a couple didn’t respond at all. There were also a couple of occasions where we had to tighten up on the attribution we provided after authors got back to us highlighting errors or context issues. Some also signposted new CC content that might be relevant for the course, so the process of engaging with authors of CC material was positive and useful (and time consuming).

 

Cheers,

 

Steve

 

 

 

From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lorna M Campbell
Sent: 06 January 2014 13:11

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Subject: Re: OERs and MOOCS

 

 

Hi Peter, 

 

Yes this is interesting. 

I thought I seen something in the terms for Futurelearn partners that the institution must own all copyright for content. Don’t recall any mention of potential for reusing others' open content but don’t take my word on that…

 

I confess I glaze over every time I try to read terms and conditions documents :}  However as far as I can make out from FutureLearn's T&C, they are the owners or licensee of "all necessary IPR"  and "Unless otherwise stated, copyright in the Online Content and Courses belongs to the relevant Partner Institution providing the Online Content and Courses."  

 

However there is another clause that states: 

 

"Certain Partner Institutions may, at their own discretion, make available certain Online Content and Courses under a Creative Commons licence (non-Commercial). Should Partner Institutions choose to do this, it will be clearly identified on the appropriate Online Content and Courses page of the Website and we acknowledge that the Creative Commons licence will override certain of these terms and conditions as appropriate. A full copy of the relevant Creative Commons licence will be available from a link at that point." 

 

So presumably that covers the Nottingham course. 

 

There's also stuff about not using content for commercial purposes or to benefit third parties. 

 

Incidentally, I’m trying to encourage the sharing of the content with the MOOCs from Liverpool’s partnership with Futurelearn. More on this if and when it happens as we’re still in the early days of getting our MOOC plans together….

 

Sounds good! Keep us posted :)

 

Cheers

Lorna

 

On 6 Jan 2014, at 12:38, Sheppard, Nick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 

I started* the Web Science MOOC from Soton…asked on Twitter and said all resources would be released through EdShare. No further details…

 

*may need to resit

 

Nick

 

 

 

From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lorna M Campbell
Sent: 06 January 2014 12:29
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Subject: Re: OERs and MOOCS

 

Happy New year folks! 

 

This is a good start to the year.  Very encouraging to see another MOOCs using open educational resources.  Out of interest, does anyone know of any other MOOCs, in addition to UoL Common Law and Nottingham Sustainability & Society, that use OERs? 

 

All the best

Lorna

 

On 6 Jan 2014, at 10:01, David Kernohan wrote:

Hi Andy – really pleased that you are doing this and have made all the resources openly available – great news! Pat Lockley managed to do similar on his UoL Common Law MOOC, and we’re starting to see a few others making a commitment to sharing.

 

Happy new year, OER-DISCUSS.

 

David

 

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David Kernohan

Jisc

 

From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andy Beggan
Sent: 06 January 2014 09:38
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: OERs and MOOCS

 

Dear all

 

Apologies for cross posting and the blatant pug.

 

I thought the list might be interested in this new MOOC we have just launched on Futurelearn, titled Sustainability, Society and You (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/sustainability-society-and-you). The course tries to adhere closely to the aims and objectives of OERs as much as possible, and is 8 weeks long with hundreds of OERs of various types from external sources. We have also made the entire course itself available under a Creative Commons licence.

 

In particular the list may be interested in week 6 (starting 10^th Feb, but available now) which looks at learning and sustainability and in particular to the role of OERs in sustainable practice.

 

Enjoy!

 

Kind regards

Andy Beggan

Head of Learning Technology

Learning Technology Blog

 

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