{"id":574,"date":"2016-05-05T00:42:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T00:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/oerdsc\/?page_id=574"},"modified":"2016-05-05T00:42:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T00:42:30","slug":"finding-oer-taster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/oerdsc\/digital-skill-challenges\/finding-oer\/finding-oer-taster\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding OER taster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:302px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Finding_Nemo.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/2\/29\/Finding_Nemo.jpg\/300px-Finding_Nemo.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">Found!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There is no definitive source for locating OER (as there is no definitive source for locating closed educational resources). Your skills in finding OER will improve with experience in developing open courses. This involves developing your knowledge for finding how open licenses are attributed on different sites and improving your online search skills. The open education space is a very dynamic field and you will find that some web pages providing links on where to find OER may be out of date. For this reason, it is important to participate in open education community lists to network and keep up to date with recent developments in the field.\n<\/p>\n<p>OER course designers and developers need to know what to look for and where and how to source OER materials. For example:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> OER assets to incorporate into your course, such as images, sound or video\n<\/li>\n<li> Full courses which you can adapt and modify\n<\/li>\n<li> Research articles to support undergraduate and postgraduate learning\n<\/li>\n<li> Open textbooks\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When in doubt about the legal permissions associated with resources you find, visit the &#8220;terms of reference&#8221; or &#8220;copyright&#8221; link on the site concerned. In time, you will learn which repositories support searching by Creative Commons license types in your field of interest and use these as your primary sources.\n<\/p>\n<p>In this section we provide two activities and a few additional links to get you started with finding OER.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Finding_OER_assets_for_incorporation_into_your_course_developments\">Finding OER assets for incorporation into your course developments<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"activity\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/oerdsc\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_activity.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Activity<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><b>Using website specific advanced search and filter features to find OER<\/b><br \/>This is a learn-by-doing activity. A number of websites which host photographs, images, sound and video support Creative Commons license tags and provide the ability to search according to Creative Commons license types. The purpose of this activity is to explore how you can search for Creative Commons licensed materials using the search filters or advanced search features available on a few selected websites. For each website you explore, perform the following two steps:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Conduct a search by Creative Commons license type (where supported).\n<\/li>\n<li> Visit the individual resource and find out where and how the Creative Commons license is cited on the individual resource page.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Suggested websites for this activity<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> <b><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/b>: a repository of free media with the advantage that all resources are licensed under <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/freedomdefined.org\/Definition\">Free Cultural Works<\/a> approved licenses.\n<ul>\n<li> Go to  <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\">commons.wikimedia.org<\/a> and enter a search term.\n<\/li>\n<li> Click on an image in the search results.\n<\/li>\n<li> Explore how the license information is displayed on the image&#8217;s main &#8220;File:&#8221; page, for example, <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Butterfly_Costa_Rica.JPG\">&#8220;File:&#8221; page for &#8220;Butterfly Costa Rica&#8221;<\/a>,\n<ul>\n<li> If your selected image comes up using the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/Help:Extension:Media_Viewer\">Media Viewer<\/a>, click on the &#8220;More details&#8221; button to access the detailed license information and metadata on the &#8220;File:&#8221; page, for example, <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Butterfly#\/media\/File:Butterfly_Costa_Rica.JPG\">&#8220;Butterfly Costa Rica&#8221; in Media Viewer<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> <b><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/\">flickr<\/a><\/b>: a photo sharing site.\n<ul>\n<li> Go to <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\">www.flickr.com<\/a> and enter a search term in the search box.\n<\/li>\n<li> Click on the license filter to select the permissions for different types of CC licenses or click on the &#8220;Advanced Search&#8221; link and scroll down to the Creative Commons section.\n<\/li>\n<li> Experiment with different search configurations (you can use more than one filter). See if you can find the license statement on the resultant search. Note which CC license is used in relation to the search filters you used.\n<\/li>\n<li> Click on the share icon to reveal the link for attribution and click on the download link to see the download options.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> <b><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/pixabay.com\/\">pixabay<\/a><\/b>: a community repository of public domain images, drawings, vectors and photographs. All images on pixabay are dedicated to the public domain so there is no need to filter by license type. However, note that &#8220;sponsored images&#8221; are not available under the public domain and usually have an embedded watermark.\n<ul>\n<li> Go to <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/pixabay.com\/\">pixabay.com<\/a> and enter a search term.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> <b><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a><\/b>: a video sharing site.\n<ul>\n<li> Go to <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">www.youtube.com<\/a> and enter a search term in the search box.\n<\/li>\n<li> Click on the &#8220;Filter&#8221; pull-down option and click on &#8220;Creative Commons&#8221;. Youtube only supports the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.\n<\/li>\n<li> Click on the &#8220;Show More&#8221; link to reveal the license.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> <b><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/\">Vimeo<\/a><\/b>: Vimeo is a video hosting site.\n<ul>\n<li> Go to <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/\">www.vimeo.com<\/a> and enter a search term in the search box.\n<\/li>\n<li> Click on the &#8220;More filters&#8221; link or (&#8220;more&#8221; link to see license of an individual video) and search by Creative Commons license type. Note how the CC license icons are used to display the license attribution.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> <b><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\">SoundCloud<\/a><\/b>: a social sound platform which supports Creative Commons.\n<ul>\n<li> Go to <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\">soundcloud.com<\/a> and enter a search term.\n<\/li>\n<li> From the results page, click on the &#8220;Tracks&#8221; link and then the &#8220;To listen to&#8221; link to select your preferred CC license filter (see <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/shard\/s229\/sh\/52a6752c-d6f3-45ca-8bba-0d3f2b7833f3\/cc6f5d6dd46fa58c7fd6960788645223\">screenshot<\/a>).\n<\/li>\n<li> On the individual track page, click on the &#8220;Read more&#8221; link to reveal the license information.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> <b><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jamendo.com\">Jamendo<\/a><\/b>: a music website which specialises in free music.\n<ul>\n<li> Go to <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jamendo.com\">www.jamendo.com<\/a> and enter a search term (or click on the &#8220;Search&#8221; link).\n<\/li>\n<li> Click on the &#8220;Advanced search&#8221; link and select your license filter.\n<\/li>\n<li> Choose an individual track from the search results and scroll down to the bottom of the page to view the license attribution information.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Expanding_your_OER_search_horizons\">Expanding your OER search horizons<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"activity\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/oerdsc\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_activity.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Activity<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><b>When you are looking for more than discrete OER assets<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:302px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Google_search.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/4\/47\/Google_search.jpg\/300px-Google_search.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">Use <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/advanced_search\">Google Advanced Search<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Think about a course you are teaching, or considering for future development. Identify a broad topic area and visit the following sources for searching for OER:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Try using an <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/advanced_search\">advanced Google Search<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/advanced_search\">www.google.com\/advanced_search<\/a>) and filter the results using the &#8220;usage rights&#8221; option by selecting appropriate permissions. Always verify the search results by visiting the host site to confirm licensing permissions.\n<\/li>\n<li> Visit the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/open4us.org\/find-oer\/\">Find OER<\/a> page of the Open Professionals Education Network site or the  BCcampus <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/find-open-textbooks\/\">Find Open Textbooks<\/a> portal and select one or two options to try and find what you are looking for.\n<\/li>\n<li> Visit the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doaj.org\/\">Directory of Open Access Journals<\/a> which may be appropriate for implementing a <i>pedagogy of discovery<\/i> where you direct learners to source their own materials in pursuit of their own interests in achieving the learning outcomes for your course.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Please share your experiences on your preliminary search for OER by posting on WEnotes below, <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/forums.oeru.org\/c\/courses\/ds4oer\">OERu forums<\/a> or <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a> and include the hash tag &#8220;ds4oer&#8221; when posting on Twitter. For example:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> <i>I was surprised that &#8230; #ds4oer<\/i>\n<\/li>\n<li> <i>I&#8217;m frustrated that &#8230; #ds4oer<\/i> or\n<\/li>\n<li> <i>Searching for OER is &#8230; #ds4oer<\/i>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><div><p>You must be logged in to post to WEnotes.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Building_the_commons\">Building the commons<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In your discipline, you may not find the specific resources you were looking for. You can make a difference by filling the gap. By by releasing your outputs under open licenses, you can help build the education commons so that future searches for OER by your colleagues will render more positive results.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"case study\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/oerdsc\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_casestudy.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Case Study<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><b>The absurdity of copyright in higher education and the importance of building the commons<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:252px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Lapita_jewellery_box_001.JPG\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/e\/ed\/Lapita_jewellery_box_001.JPG\/250px-Lapita_jewellery_box_001.JPG\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">Lapita jewellery box from excavations at Bourewa, Fiji directed by Patrick Nunn, 2007-2008<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usq.edu.au\/\">University of Southern Queensland<\/a> was developing one of the first <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oeru.org\">OERu<\/a> prototype courses on Regional Relations in Asia and the Pacific, we noted a link to a <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teara.govt.nz\/en\/photograph\/1766\/lapita-pottery\">lapita pottery image<\/a>. The image was licensed under all rights reserved to a leading publicly funded research university and could not be copied for inclusion in the section of the course on an historical overview of the region.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Lapita were a sea-faring people thought to be the ancestors of contemporary populations in Polynesia, Micronesia and some parts of Melanesia, and we know this from numerous discoveries of lapita pottery. Radiocarbon analyses date these artefacts to +3000 years old. The artefacts themselves pre-date the origins of copyright and should rightly be in the public domain. However, the copyright of photographs of artefacts in the public domain can be licensed under all rights reserved as was the case of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teara.govt.nz\/en\/photograph\/1766\/lapita-pottery\">lapita pottery image<\/a>. Legally the course developers could not include a copy of this image in the course materials.\n<\/p>\n<p>We approached the copyright holder of the image for permission to re-license the image under a free cultural works approved license which was denied. Consequently a copy of the image could not be legally hosted on WikiEducator for inclusion in the OER course materials.\n<\/p>\n<p>We posted a request on the OERu public email lists in an attempt to source openly licensed alternatives of the image for inclusion in the course materials. We received a positive response via the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usp.ac.fj\/\">University of the South Pacific<\/a>, one of the OERu founding anchor partners. Patrick Nunn, the former Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and International),  at the University of the South Pacific, directed a <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/wikieducator.org\/Bourewa_Lapita_excavations\">significant find of lapita pottery<\/a> at Bourewa in Fiji. We were able to source openly licensed substitute images which could be incorporated into the OER materials and thus build the education commons.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.043 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.044 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 273\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 978\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 21838\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 17296\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:165384-0!*!*!!en!2!* and timestamp 20160504094904 and revision id 996531\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/oerdsc\/digital-skill-challenges\/finding-oer\/preknowledge\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/oerdsc\/digital-skill-challenges\/wiki-skills-challenge\/start-wiki-skills-challenge\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found! 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