[Open-education] [OER] Sharing of nice practice how show usage of OER - but in an NC context?

Fri Sep 25 08:11:10 UTC 2015

Daniel Mietchen raises a very challenging issue about NC. 

Would anyone care to lead with a blog posting on this? I do feel it is much more appropriate for a blog laying out the pros and cons rather than an exchange of emails on a list.

I notice that OER Africa has written on this in the past – e.g. at http://www.oerafrica.org/copyright-and-licensing-toolkit/what-does-non-commercial-mean

My initial thought is that views on this are affected by 1) how education is “delivered” in the countries of relevance to those discussing the topic and 2) the extent to which state or para-statal entities in such countries fund the private sector to “do good work” within the constraints of “non profit” participation – as for example the EU does extensively via LLP and Framework in the past and now Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020.

Paul Bacsich
Coordinator, Open Education Working Group - http://education.okfn.org/blog/
Senior Consultant, SeroHE

From: Daniel Mietchen 
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 1:45 AM
To: Open Educational Resources - an online discussion forum 
Subject: Re: [OER] Sharing of nice practice how show usage of OER

Dear Tamara, 

congratulations on this initiative and thanks for sharing the story with us.
If others would like to build on your initiative, however, they are hampered by the license you chose.
Can you expand a bit as to whether and why the restrictions are necessary, in particular the -NC one?

Thanks,

Daniel

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Tamara Kovacova <tamara.kovacova at eduin.cz> wrote:

          Hi Open Education and OER community, 

          encouraged by Nicole Allen, let me share our story with you as well :-). 

          I would like just share with you one of possible nice practice how to show usability of OER (because Alek Tarkowski motivated us to do so :-) which we are just experiencing..

          As reaction on world migration situation we as EDUin (eduin.cz) motivated couple of weeks ago czech organization of civic educaton teachers (obcankari.cz ) to create handy worksheets for teachers of K12 about migration with CC licence (in czech because we are targeting czech teachers audience at the moment). 

          This worksheet (6 - 11 years)  are available here: http://www.obcankari.cz/edukacni-material-pracovni-list-kdo-proc-utika

          and here (12 - 16 years)): http://www.obcankari.cz/edukacni-material-pracovni-list-migrant-azyl-azylant

          We think that this activity can show that OER can for example: 
          1) react on new situation -  in terms of new content - very quickly (which standard textbooks can not)
          2) react on new situation in terms of quick spreading of the material when it is needed (standard books are slower)
          3) can join different school subjects together (based on modern  phenomenon based learning strategy) - different subjects as civic education, history, literature are taught mostly separatelly today and as well the most of the textbooks keep school subjects separatelly as well. OER can serve better for effective phenomenon based learning, e.g.  can easily join school subjects together. 

          And we as EDUin made a promo mix  (even with press release seen as well here http://www.eduin.cz/tiskove-zpravy/tiskova-zprava-jak-ucit-o-uprchlicich/ ) of this OER worksheets among teachers, parents , experts, journalists. Yesterday we got call from Czech Television :-). 

          So .. as far as Alek all the time asks for sharing some nice OER stories, so I would like to share this with you :-). 

          btw - is there some place where nice OER/ Open education stories are collected? We would like to know about more of those stories, which can help us to do better advocacy for open education and OER :-). 

          Enjoy autumn :-), 

          Tamara  

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