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
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Sharing and reuse
Reinventing the wheel
E-learning expensive / costs
Learn from others
24/7 online
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/
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Nonprofit
Increase sharing & collaboration
4 types of licence (6 combinations)
Author retains copyright
Attribution allows
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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 Commons
Attribution
CC – BY - ND
Creative Commons
Attribution
No Derivatives
CC – BY - SA
Creative Commons
Attribution
Share Alike
CC – BY - NC
Creative Commons
Attribution
NonCommercial
CC – BY – NC - SA
Creative Commons
Attribution
NonCommercial
Share Alike
CC – BY – NC - ND
Creative Commons
Attribution
NonCommercial
Share Alike
No Derivatives
• Choose and agree a search term
Live search or screen grab
http://www.jorum.ac.uk
Skills Portal
• Undergraduates
• Taught Masters
• Doctoral Students
Jorum
• Download
• Stylesheet
• Create index
• Convert from Word to HTML
© University of Leicester
©University of Central Lancashire
© Open University
Evaluation?
• Criteria?
• Issues?
– Technical
– Pedagogy
– Practical
• Miriam's repurposed resource
Repositories
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/mer
lot/index.htm
http://www.oercomm
ons.org/
Target
Primary - Tertiary
Further & Higher
education
Schools, FE
Primary - Tertiary
Primary - Tertiary
Peer Review
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Community
Federated
searching
Host country
Funding
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 blog
 portal
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 wiki
US
Hewitt Foundation.
Not for profit
UK Mimas
HEfCE/JISC
European Schoolnet
European Union (EU)
US
Institutional corporate
partnership
US
Institute for the Study
of
Knowledge
Management in
Education (ISKME)
Hewitt Foundation
Institutional and
outreach partners
Construction tools
Rhaptos
Licensing
CC
Open Author
CC
mixed
CC/copyright
CC
Advantages
• Time
• Quality
• Customize
- Replace institution branding
- Adjust assessments
- Add local instructions
What would you find useful for your teaching?
Where/How might you use it?
http://libweb.surrey.ac.uk/library/skills/learningskills.html
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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
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Consider different scenarios and judge in each case
whether or not a reference would be required
What is Plagiarism?
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“Plagiarism is the presentation of another person’s
work intentionally or unintentionally as if it were your
own” University of Birmingham’s WebCT course on
plagiarism.
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“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.
Plagiarism?
Presentation created by University of Birmingham and adapted for University of Surrey students.
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
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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
0%
Un
su
re
0%
No
Ye
s
0%
10
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
0%
Un
su
re
0%
No
Ye
s
0%
10
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
0%
Un
su
re
0%
No
Ye
s
0%
10
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
0%
Un
su
re
0%
No
Ye
s
0%
10
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
0%
Un
su
re
0%
No
Ye
s
0%
10
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
0%
Un
su
re
0%
No
Ye
s
0%
10
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
0%
Un
su
re
0%
No
Ye
s
0%
10
Presentation:
Created by University of Birmingham as part of the DELILA project
http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/15964
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License,
and adapted under this license for University of Surrey students by Miriam Tarron.
To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.
Title Slide photograph:
Original photograph: White Sheep by Bjarki Sigursveinsson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40275507@N07/3863494118
This photograph is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution- Share Alike 3.0 Unported License and was
adapted under this license, for this presentation, by Len
Tarron.