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Supporting information literacy and study skills with Open Educational Resources (OER)

Vivien Sieber & Miriam Tarron

Who has used OERs?

Open Education & OER

• MIT Open Courseware Initiative (OCI) (2002)• Open Educational Resources UK• JISC/HEA projects:

“What do we need to do to share and reuse courseware?” 2009-10

• Open University• Jorum (Repository)• Dependent on CC licences

Advantages?

Advantages

• Sharing and reuse

• Reinventing the wheel

• E-learning expensive / costs

• Learn from others

• 24/7 online

Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/

• Nonprofit

• Increase sharing & collaboration

• 4 types of licence (6 combinations)

• Author retains copyright

Attribution allows

• Distribution

• Modify, remix, derivative works

• Commercial use

• Must give credit for the original creation

• Most accommodating of licenses

Attribution Share Alike

• Distribution

• Modify, remix, derivative works

• Commercial use

• Must give credit for the original creation

• Must use the same license as original on derivative works (commercial allowed)

Attribution No Derivatives

• Distribution

• Commercial use

• Must give credit for the original creation

• No derivative works, must be passed intact

Attribution Non-Commercial

• Distribution

• Modify, remix, derivative works

• No commercial use

• Must give credit for the original creation

• Must use the same license as original on derivative works

Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

• Distribution

• Modify, remix, derivative works

• No commercial use

• Must give credit for the original creation

• Must use the same license as original on derivative works i.e. Non-commercial

Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

• Distribution

• No modification, remix, derivative works

• No commercial use

• Must give credit for the original creation

• Must use the same license as original on derivative works i.e. Non-commercial

CC - BY Creative CommonsAttribution

CC – BY - ND Creative CommonsAttributionNo Derivatives

CC – BY - SA Creative CommonsAttributionShare Alike

CC – BY - NC Creative CommonsAttributionNonCommercial

CC – BY – NC - SA Creative CommonsAttributionNonCommercialShare Alike

CC – BY – NC - ND Creative CommonsAttributionNonCommercialShare AlikeNo Derivatives

• Choose and agree a search term

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http://www.jorum.ac.uk

Jorum

Web link

File download

• Undergraduates

• Taught Masters

• Doctoral Students

Skills Portal

• Download

• Stylesheet

• Create index

• Convert from Word to HTML

Jorum

© University of Leicester

©University of Central Lancashire

© Open University

Evaluation?

• Criteria?

• Issues?– Technical– Pedagogy– Practical

• Miriam's repurposed resource

Repository

Connexions

Jorum Learning Resource Exchange for schools

Merlot OER Commons

url http://cnx.org http://www.jorum.ac.uk

http://lreforschools.eun.org/web/guest/home

http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

http://www.oercommons.org/

Target Primary - Tertiary Further & Higher education

Schools, FE Primary - Tertiary Primary - Tertiary

Peer Review

Community blog portal wikiFederated searching

Host country US UK Mimas European Schoolnet US USFunding Hewitt Foundation.

Not for profitHEfCE/JISC European Union (EU) Institutional corporate

partnershipInstitute for the Study ofKnowledge Management in Education (ISKME)Hewitt FoundationInstitutional and outreach partners

Construction tools Rhaptos Open Author

Licensing CC CC mixed CC/copyright CC

Repositories

Depositing

• Institutional login

• Time

• Quality

• Customize

- Replace institution branding

- Adjust assessments

- Add local instructions

Advantages

What would you find useful for your teaching?

Where/How might you use it?

http://libweb.surrey.ac.uk/library/skills/learningskills.html

Presentation created by University of Birmingham and adapted for University of Surrey students.

Plagiarism?Plagiarism?

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this session you should be able to:

• Recall what is meant by plagiarism

• Consider different scenarios and judge in each case whether or not they would be classed as plagiarism

• Consider different scenarios and judge in each case whether or not a reference would be required

What is Plagiarism?

The University of Surrey ‘Regulations for Academic Integrity’ defines plagiarism as:•inserting words, concepts, or images from the work of someone else into work submitted for assessment without acknowledging the originator's contribution and •representing the work of another as one's own, whether purchased or not, or taken with or without permission.

•“The action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own; literary theft.” Oxford English Dictionary.

1) It is the day before your assignment is due to be submitted. You contact an online essay

writing service, which later that day (for a fee) emails you an essay that meets your

requirements. The next day you submit this essay. Is this plagiarism?

1. Yes

2. No

3. Unsure

Yes N

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2) You have been asked to submit an essay on Romeo and Juliet and your cousin emails you her

old A* essay on that topic, you make a few alterations and add a few new ideas. You submit

this essay. Is this plagiarism?

1. Yes

2. No

3. Unsure

Yes N

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3) In your essay you discuss your own thoughts on bankers’ bonuses. Do you need to give a

reference?

1. Yes

2. No

3. Unsure

Yes N

o

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4) You are writing an assignment about the British constitution and you state that the Queen is the head of state of the UK. Do you need to provide

a reference for this?

1. Yes

2. No

3. Unsure

Yes N

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5) You include in an essay a table of data or a picture that you have found on the Web. Do you

need to reference it?

1. Yes

2. No

3. Unsure

Yes N

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6) You paraphrase in your essay Richard Dawkins’ ideas on the transmission of cultural

values from one of his popular books. Because you are not directly quoting you don’t put quotation marks. Do you need to add a

reference?

1. Yes

2. No

3. Unsure

Yes N

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7) You and a friend are taking the same module and therefore have the same essay to write. The essay is not to be done as group work. You and

your friend write your essays in the library together and end up with very similar essays. Is

this plagiarism?

1. Yes

2. No

3. Unsure

Yes N

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8) You find a paragraph in a book that supports an argument that you are making in your

assignment. You copy this paragraph into your assignment, putting quotations marks at the start

and finish and provide a citation. Is this plagiarism?

1. Yes

2. No

3. Unsure

Yes N

o

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Created by University of Birmingham and adapted for University of Surrey students.

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

Title Slide picture:Hambledon Hill Sheep

This photograph by John from Wareham, Dorset, England is adapted for this presentation and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.Based on a work at http://www.flickr.com/photos/19237450@N00/455414194/. And obtained from Wikipedia Commons.

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