Author: Cailean Cooney

Goals for Seminar 2:

• Review Copyright & Fair Use Module
  • What is Fair Use?
  • Best Practices
• Review the materials you selected
  • What’s their licensing / permissions?
  • Debrief
• Learning how to attribute the materials you select
  • Open Attribution Builder
• Check in one-on-one about finding materials for you course

For Reference:

• Printable version of the Fair Use Checklist
• Digital and printable version of the “Do I need to Get Permission?” handout
• Sample OER site licensing language: “Unless otherwise noted, this site is licensed….xyz” … this type of wording is helpful in establishing that the site license may be distinct from the licensing of the materials you post on your site

Goals for today:

• Introduce ourselves
• Understand “OER,” the term. What makes OER distinct from free educational materials?
  • Introduce copyright and Creative Commons licenses
  • Introduce some (confusing) semantics
    • “Open licenses” 
• Review the learning materials you can assign with your OER
• What makes your site an OER?
• OER Critique activity

Resources: 

• Presentation slides
• OERs developed by colleagues in the Fellowship