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Attribute OER
Reflect on your Go Open, Go Free Using OER experience
Estimated time to complete: 1.5 hours
You can use Creative Commons-licensed materials as long as you observe the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is to provide a proper attribution.
Congratulations! This is also the last week of the Go Open, Go Free Using OER Flipped Learning workshop. In this series, you participated in activities designed to further your knowledge and practice in using OER and contributed to the wider community by sharing your work. Just because the workshop series is wrapping up doesn't mean your involvement with OER ends, too. We hope you will continue working towards adopting OER materials when possible, revising and localizing OER, and sharing your own work. And we encourage you to spread the word. The OER movement is good for education.
A good rule of thumb is to recall the acronym T-A-L, which stands for Title, Author, and License.
Title – What is the name of the material? Provide the title of the work you are adopting. Be sure to hyperlink the title to the original sources. If a hyperlink is not available, describe where you got the work.
Author – Who owns the material? Name the author or authors of the material in question. Sometimes, the licensor may want you to give credit to some other entity, like a company or pseudonym. In those cases, do as requested. If the author has a webpage, link to it.
License – How can I use it? Provide the exact name of the Creative Commons license under which the work was released, and hyperlink the license name to the license deed page. You may use the acronyms instead of the full name of the license.
You are obviously using the material for free thanks to the CC license, so make note of it. Don’t just state the material is Creative Commons because that says nothing about how the material can be used. Remember, there are six different CC licenses so always specify the license applied to the material.
Here is a photo found online. Following it are some examples of how people might attribute it.
"Creative Commons 10th Birthday Celebration San Francisco" by tvol is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Because:
Title? "Creative Commons 10th Birthday Celebration San Francisco"
Author? "tvol" - linked to his profile page
License? "CC BY 2.0" - linked to license deed
Photo: Creative Commons
Because:
Title? Title is not noted.
Author? Creative Commons is not the author of this photo.
License? There is no mention of the license, much less a link to the license. "Creative Commons" is an organization.
Let's say you modified the above image. How would you attribute the image below?
"Creative Commons 10th Birthday Celebration San Francisco" by tvol, used under CC BY / Desaturated from original
Because:
Title, Author, and License are all noted
Modification? "Desaturated from original"
A derivative work is a work based on or derived from one or more already existing works. Common derivative works include translations, musical arrangements, motion picture versions of literary material or plays, art reproductions, abridgments, and condensations of preexisting works. Another common type of derivative work is a “new edition” of a preexisting work in which the editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications represent, as a whole, an original work.
This work, "90fied", is a derivative of "Creative Commons 10th Birthday Celebration San Francisco" by tvol, used under CC BY. "90fied" is licensed under CC BY by [Your name here].
Because:
Original Title, Author, and License are all noted
Derivative? "This work, "90fied", is a derivative of..."
New author of the derivative work is also noted
For more information on best practice for attibution, go to Creative Commons at https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_attribution
Find a Creative Commons image at https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/. Review the lesson on Open Image if you need a refresher on finding an image.
Check the license information for the image you selected, then download the image.
Attribute your image using T-A-L.
For your reflection, consider using the What, So What, Now What prompts as a guide.
Respond to What? So What? Now What?
What? What happened during the Go Open, Go Free workshop? What was your motivation for taking the workshop? What did you learn? What did you expect and what was different?
So What? Why does it matter to you or to your students? To the college or society as a whole? Describe your experiences searching for OER in your subject area. What was your impression of this process?
Now what? What will you do differently? What have you learned? Are you committed to the OER movement? What will you do to further OER? Why is OER important to the future of education?
Summarize your blog post by offering insight or a piece of advice for instructors who may be considering OER in the near future.
Due before class on Tues. 3/20
Submit: Post your CC-licensed image with an attribution and your reflection to the Slack GoOpen #week-6 channel [New Window]
Find and then post your image with an attribution.
Post a reflection of your Go Open, Go Free workshop experience.
Grading Rubric
CC-licensed image and attribution
Points: 5
5 points for correct attribution
3 points for pretty good attribution
0 points for incorrect attribution
Reflection
Points: 20
20 points for a complete reflection with thoughtful and meaningful responses to what happened, why it matters, and what you will do differently.
10 points for mostly complete reflection with responses to what happened, why it matters, and what you will do differently.
0 points for a blank or incomplete response
The Reflection is one of your deliverables for this workshop series.
The content of this page includes:
Original content from "How to Use Open Educational Resources (OER)" by Boyoung Chae and Christie Fierro,SBCTC is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Original content from "Best Practices for Attribution" by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0