11/26/2011
Using Creative Commons Resources for Teaching!
A great post and video from our friends in Cape Town!
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The OpenContent UCT project at the University of Cape Town tries to encourage academics to create resources which can be shared and reused by their colleagues as well as other educators or self-learners. These resources, shared openly on the internet, can then be discovered, used and remixed by teachers around the world.
In order to make resources openly available we must adhere to issues of copyright. We encourage academics to source and use works licensed under Creative Commons whenever possible so that we can legally share the resulting materials more widely. Creative Commons provides an alternative legal framework for specifying conditions for reuse of creative materials. Creative Commons provides the vehicle for content creators to specify a licence for reuse of their content with “some rights reserved”, thus providing an alternative to the “all rights reserved” model of traditional copyright.
This video attempts to bring awareness to some of the implications in sourcing materials online without considering the copyright on the material. If we can transform teachers practice so that they use Creative Commons materials exclusively, we can legally share much more of our teaching and learning content!
11/25/2011
Call to Action: White House RFI on Public Access (deadline Jan. 2)
http://taxpayeraccess.org/action/action_access/11-1117.shtml
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has issued a new Request for Information (RFI) inviting individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on approaches for ensuring broad public access to the result of federally funded scientific research. The public input will inform the deliberations of the National Science and Technology Council's Task Force on Public Access to Scholarly Publications. The full text of the RFI can be found at: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/
11/17/2011
The Obviousness of Open Policy (SLOAN)
Full screen video option @ http://sloanconsortium.org/conferences/2011/aln/obviousness-open-policy Start video @ time index: 10:25 Video & Slides: CC BY |
11/14/2011
Education groups rallying against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
A grassroots effort has been sparked in the OER and educational technology community to express concern about the implications of the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP act for OER and online educational services. You can see the draft letter here.
More information on the bill below, but if you already agree, the process to sign on is simple:
There is now a whole class of sites that encourage lawful distribution, remixing and redistribution of educational content (e.g. Curriki, Connexions, P2PU, YouTube, CK12). Should someone accidentally or purposefully upload copyrighted material, that service would generally be protected from liability by the DMCA. A content owner would issue a DMCA takedown to start that process for removal.
If these bills are enacted, sites that host or use user-generated content could be required to monitor their site for infringing material, and could potentially have their domain name disabled by the government if content owners thought that infringement was occurring on that site. This represents an entirely new legal power given to content owners to control the flow of content online and to shape the very foundation of the Internet.
This battle is not just about a material threat to existing sites, but fighting for future innovations and future services that have yet to be created. Here are some groups that have already expressed concern:
Again, please join us in becoming a signatory to this Concerned Educator letter to Congress. The process is simple. You can either:
Thank you! We need your voice in this fight.
More information on the bill below, but if you already agree, the process to sign on is simple:
- Visit this form and simply add your name, email, organization, and (if you want) approximately how many learners you or your organization reach.
- Reply to this email with the above information and we will add you to our list.
There is now a whole class of sites that encourage lawful distribution, remixing and redistribution of educational content (e.g. Curriki, Connexions, P2PU, YouTube, CK12). Should someone accidentally or purposefully upload copyrighted material, that service would generally be protected from liability by the DMCA. A content owner would issue a DMCA takedown to start that process for removal.
If these bills are enacted, sites that host or use user-generated content could be required to monitor their site for infringing material, and could potentially have their domain name disabled by the government if content owners thought that infringement was occurring on that site. This represents an entirely new legal power given to content owners to control the flow of content online and to shape the very foundation of the Internet.
This battle is not just about a material threat to existing sites, but fighting for future innovations and future services that have yet to be created. Here are some groups that have already expressed concern:
Again, please join us in becoming a signatory to this Concerned Educator letter to Congress. The process is simple. You can either:
- Visit this form and simply add your name, email, organization, and (if you want) approximately how many learners you or your organization reach.
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