The OEL project is currently in the data collection phase, with our survey being distributed to all 39 Australian higher education institutions over the next couple of days. You may see an email or advertisement through your industry association’s communication channels with an invitation to participate. The survey closes July 14. For more information see http://www.oel.edu.au/research/
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Last week a blog post by Robin Wright from the Open Educational Licensing project was featured in the Open Knowledge Foundation’s ‘Around the World’ series. With reports from countries as diverse as India, Tanzania, Wales and Kyrgyzstan, the series offers some fascinating insights into the development of open education initiatives around the world.
Have a look at Robin’s post at http://education.okfn.org/open-education-australia/.
The OEL project team is very interested in interactive or web based information resources that help users to make decisions around open licensing. As part of the OEL project we will be developing an Open Education Licensing toolkit next year. So while we’re gathering data from Australian universities on what they need, we’re also looking at how other people are finding ways to help people make decisions about open licensing.
We’ve been keeping a list of interesting examples of aids that provide information about open licences or help people find licences / content or make open licensing decisions. So we just thought we’d have a look at a few of these we’ve noticed recently:
HowOpenIsIt? http://howopenisit.org/lookup/
The Open Article Gauge helps user to determine what type of licence applies to journals and journal articles. Put in a list of DOIs or PubMedIDs to find out what licence applies and how open they are. Still in beta – but potentially very useful.
Choosing an OSS license doesn’t need to be scary http://choosealicense.com/
This great plain language resource from MIT provides help with choosing an open software licence. It gives a simple explanation of what different OSS licences do and which other software systems use those licences.
P2PU course on how to ‘Get a CC licence and Put it on your website’ https://p2pu.org/en/courses/3/get-a-cc-license-put-it-on-your-website/ Covers some really useful questions such as: Is your work copyrightable? Do you have the rights? Really helpful for those interested in sharing.
And of course there’s always the Creative Commons automated licence chooser https://creativecommons.org/choose/ and CC Australia’s useful Creative Commons flowchart http://creativecommons.org.au/content/licensing-flowchart.pdf
The OEL team is always on the lookout for good examples of open licensing decision resources.
