Open content licensing for educators OCL4Ed

Open content licensing for educators

The course OCL4Ed #OCL4Ed is a free online course on open content licensing for educators is  a course where we all can learn about the concepts of open educational resources, copyright and Creative Commons open licenses to achieve more sustainable education for all.

The very first task is about to reflect on our experience of  e-Learning activities on creating a blog, and to get to know each other, and to use the online course environment (see how).
Our  reflections could cover for example:

• Introduction of ourselves and reflections on what we would like to achieve by maintaining a blog to support our learning
• Reflections on the activity as such? Was it easy or hard?
• Share links to any additional resources we found useful in completing the tasks.
• Provide tips for future learners who will be completing this activity. If we were to set up a new blog again, what would we do differently?
• Add anything our readers may find interesting or useful

Hi everyone, I am Ebbba Ossiannilsson fr.o.m. Lund University in Sweden. I am very much looking forward to the OCL4Ed course. I attended this course when it first started some years agao. And now for the third time I am facilitator in the course as well as taking part to learn and to share with all of you.

I am working at national and international level on Open Educational Resources (OER);  Open Educational Practice (OEP), Creative Commons (CC), and MOOCs as well as on e-learning and especially on quality issues.
I earned my PhD 2012 from Oulu University in Finland and my Dissertation was about Benchmarking e-learning in higher education. Lessons learned from international projects 

I am a board member in several national and international Associations on elearning, MOOCs, and OERs, Associations like EFQUEL, EDEN, LANETO, EADTU, SVERD (I am V President in SVERD the Swedish Association of Distance Education). I use to serve as a quality reviewer for certification on quality in e-learning with EFQUEL (UNIQUe and ECB check).

At the latest EDEN Annual Conference 10-13 June 2014 in Zagreb, Croatia,  I was awarded the EDEN Fellow 2014.

I have done several MOOCs (some 30 in number) before.  I also use to be a facilitator in MOOCs. My main concerns are quality issues and I use to be a consultant on those issues.

I am very curious to take part in this I think  5th time  at the OCL4Ed

#OCL4Ed #EbbaOssian

Would like to share a link to the Norwefgien MOOC Investigation, from the Government on MOOCs to Norway. I will share the link because I believe it will have consequenses in the Nordic countries
http://www.regjeringen.no/nn/dep/kd/Dokument/NOU-ar/2014/NOU-2014-5.html?id=762916&WT.tsrc=epost&WT.mc_id=epostvarsel_regjeringano

Concerning writing Blogpost I do that quite frequently. I will use my current Blog for this course as well. I took part as a bloger in the Spring Blog Festival  an online course on WizIQ with Dr Nellie Dutsch.
But if I should create a  new blog, I will have done it somewaht different, maybe more structured and more ineractive.
Will see if I can do something to update this one 

OCL4Ed12-06

I have recently, 20 June – 3 July 2012, attended the workshop  OCL4Ed12-06

 

The free online workshop on open education resources (OER), copyright and Creative Commons licensing was a really fantastic intitiative with  fantastic resourses from all over the world. The workshop aimed to set a new world record -- collaborating on the world's largest capacity building initiative on open content licensing in the formal education sector.

The workshop and resources was sponsored by the OER Foundation, COL Chair in OER at Otago Polytechnic and UNESCO-COL Chair at Athabasca University)

There were participants from all over the world, over 500 participants from some 80 countries. What a learning resourse and environment! ...and direct feedback on forums from peers and from experts throughout the globe.

Knowledge is a public good. By using OER  a return to the core values of education, namely to share knowledge freely can become true. The workshop is also availabel at http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/Home

The open content materials were developed openly and collaboratively by dedicated volunteers from the OER Foundation, WikiEducator,  the OpenCourseware Consortium and Creative Commons with funding support from UNESCO.

Thanks to all develoeprs and to all co-participants!
The workshop was one of the very best one I have attended, and teh design, the resourses and the online feedback.

Let the OER remix begin!
Let the open educational practice and culture develop and grow globally....