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SHARE

A socio-technical model for content sharing

Carsten Kozianka, Research Associate, Political Science Department, University of [email protected]


About SHARE

• Sharing, Handling and Assessing Resources in Education

• Transnational cooperation project funded by the EU under SOCRATES MINERVA programme

• Participating institutions:• E-coordination, Bordeaux• University of Teramo, Italy• Academy of Humanities and Economics, Lodz, Poland• University of Cologne, Germany

• Website: http://www.share.uni-koeln.de


Goals

• To foster content sharing in education• To supply technical resources and support for

the school sector• To disseminate freely available tools• Needs analysis, tool reviews and use cases

for content sharing• Best practices• Teacher trainings (contact benoit.lacherez@e-

coordination.org or [email protected])


A socio-technical model?

• Content sharing is a social process of exchanging information, knowledge or creative works

• Two basic models– One to many (Publishers)– Many to many (Web 2.0)


Drivers of change

• Open Educational Resources (OER)• User-contributed content• Copyleft licensing• Social software• Folksonomies• Personal Learning Environments (PLE)• Rich Internet Applications• Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)


Open Educational Resources

• Open courseware and content

• Open software tools (e.g. learning management systems)

• Open material for e-learning capacity building of faculty staff

• Repositories of learning objects

• Free educational courses


Open Educational Resources

• Supported by OECD, UNESCO and Hewlett Foundation

• “Open” means:• Freedom to copy• Freedom to modify• Freedom to redistribute• Freedom to redistribute modified versions

• More info: http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org


User-contributed content

• Evolution of web technologies has made online publishing available for everyone

• In some areas social networks of volunteers have built large collections of content (Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube, Slideshare, Freesound)


Copyleft licensing

• Declaration of human rights Art. 27:

(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.


Copyleft licensing

• Tension between intellectual property rights and public interest

• Using copyright-protected material for education is a complex legal issue

• Copyleft licensing as a mechanism for protecting IPR and providing free access for education


Copyleft licensing

You are free:• to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work• to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:• Attribution. You must give the original author credit.• Non-Commercial. You may not use this work for

commercial purposes.• Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this

work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a licence identical to this one.


Copyleft licensing

• Creative Commons (CC):– http://creativecommons.org/– Comprehensible– Adaptable– Easy to use– Ported to national copyright legislations– Growing collections of CC-licensed content


Social software

• Web-based systems fostering social interaction

• Community building capacity• Related to a particular type of content

(pictures, video, audio...) or to a specific topic• Free access, no user roles, meaningful user

profiles, reward for excellence


Folksonomies

• Classification of content by users (“folks”)• Free tagging allows flexible classification• Resulting taxonomies are more accurate than

with predefined categorization• The only meta data users will actually fill in• Example: http://del.icio.us/ • Large collection of user-rated bookmarks


Personal Learning Environments

• A (not so) new approach to e-learning• Supports informal as well as formal learning• A personally managed space on the web• Bringing together distributed services and

resources for learning via RSS and API’s• Store and share files, write and publish

articles, manage your personal e-portfolio• Example: http://eduspaces.net/


Rich Internet Applications

• A new generation of internet applications with a desktop-like interface

• Word processing: http://writer.zoho.com• Spreadsheets: http://www.editgrid.com/home• Calendar:

http://www.30boxes.com/welcome.php • Personalised Homepage:

http://www.netvibes.com/


Free and Open Source Software

• A variety of mature applications available for education– Learning Management Systems– Content Management Systems– WIKI’s– Groupware– Word processing– Audio recording– Vector graphics


The vision

• PLE providing:– Access to distributed Open Source tools and Open

Educational Resources– Search queries on distributed meta data– Freedom to re-use and modify others’ content– Tool box approach– Single login for different tools– Desktop-like web interface– Sustainable and public service


The vision


Challenges

• Data protection• Mixed licensing• Multilingual content• Accessibility• Metadata• Business models / Sustainability• Different logins and registration procedures


The human factor

• Do you use internet resources for teaching and learning?

• Are you familiar with copyright legislation?• Do you see a need for collaborating and

providing materials online?• Would you offer your lessons online and free

of charge?• Describe motivations to share your work.• Describe motivations to not share your work.

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