[Oer-community] Oer-community Digest, Vol 9, Issue 7
karuna oomel
karunah_076 at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 13 12:46:32 MST 2012
Hello Jaya and Steve,
I would like to comment on what you both have said.
"Plagiarism
is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful appropriation,"
"close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of
another author's
"language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation
of them as one's own original work."
( from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism.)
Whenever original work is produced, Copyright
issues are involved. Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most
governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive
rights to it, usually for a limited time. Generally, it is "the
right to copy", but also gives the copyright holder the right to be
credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who
may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it, and other related
rights. It is a form of intellectual property (like the patent, the trademark,
and the trade secret)
applicable to any expressible form of an idea or information that is
substantive and discrete.
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright)
According
to these two descriptions, if a person copies the work /creation of another
person without citing the sources, he/she is committing plagiarisim. I think these two terms are
related in the sense that if I do not
respect copyright laws, I plagiarise. I feel that Jaya wants to claim that in
such cases OER-Open educational resources which are free and openly licensed educational materials can
be used for teaching, learning, research, and other purposes without fear of
plagiarism/violation of copyright laws. On top of that with all CC licenses
available, we do not have to get involved in the hassle of asking permission
from an author or disbursing to get hold of a copyrighted material. As an
educator and University Student, we always have to look for resources to
upgrade our teaching or complete our assignment. This is where OER help us. To
return to the main topic of this discussion: What could an OER world map
look like? Why map the OER landscape,
I think an OER Map will:
·
Facilitate
the task of locating teaching and learning resources.
·
Guide
us to proper resources.
·
Help us to identify OER community
·
Emphasise the importance of OER
·
Bridge the geographical gap between OER
community
·
Consolidate the identity of OER community
·
Facilitate communication
·
Maintain forever on its principle of global open access
An OER Map will look as any geographical map on
which it is easy to locate a place.
Regards
Karuna
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> 1. Re: Oer world map (Steve Foerster)
> 2. Re: OER mapping - Welcome and introduction to Week 1
> (Sandra Sch?n)
> 3. Re: OER mapping - Welcome and introduction to Week 1
> (Bernard, NKUYUBWATSI)
> 4. Re: Forwarded message from Fred Mulder (rory)
> 5. Re: OER mapping - Welcome and introduction to Week 1
> (Martin Hawksey)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:08:58 -0500
> From: Steve Foerster <steve at hiresteve.com>
> Subject: Re: [Oer-community] Oer world map
> To: oer-community <oer-community at athabascau.ca>
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> Jaya wrote:
>
> > But I have to be careful about copyright issues and avoid
> > plagiarism at all costs. So using OER will be the best solution.
>
> I agree that avoiding plagiarism is a must, but how do you see use of
> OERs as the key to that? Plagiarism and copyright are unrelated issues.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -=Steve=-
>
>
> --
> Stephen H. Foerster
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:06:19 +0100
> From: Sandra Sch?n <sandra.schoen at salzburgresearch.at>
> Subject: Re: [Oer-community] OER mapping - Welcome and introduction to
> Week 1
> To: oer-community <oer-community at athabascau.ca>
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> Dear Susan and All,
>
> > 1. Would a world map to visualize the global OER landscape be
> > useful? (example below created from OCWC data)
> >
> To be frankly: I do not see that a map of OER projects, repositories
> etc. is the most useful and wanted thing. Of course, a collection, an
> extended list would be useful, a search function great and some ideas to
> illustrate this collections and lists would be great.
>
> I hesitate to promote a *map* because from my opinion, the idea of
> mapping means that there is a need to decide the origin and/or workload
> of OER projects, even if its sometimes a multinational community, a
> multinational funding, a multinational cooperation etc. (Perhaps this
> argumentation is not very common in the US ;-)
>
> In my "own OER" project L3T (an open scientific textbook on e-learning
> in German language, http://l3t.eu) we have co-authors from Germany,
> Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands and Greek ... I don't have a clue
> where to add it in your map. Personally, I live in Germany and work in
> Austria. Even more important seems (for me) that this is a project in
> German language. Eventually, it would be helpful for others to get an
> idea about the topic and materials.
>
> Only the political issue (which country pays/funds how much in OER
> projects and materials) seems - IMHO - interesting and also important
> for political discussions, esp. for UNESCO and Co.
>
> Additionally - I guess the idea to develop a map is already established
> ;-) - I want to point to an existing list within the Wikieducator.org,
> once established within the OLCOS project (the first project on OER
> funded by the European Commission).
>
> Here it is: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Educational_Content
>
> BTW: In your map, the wikieducator will be (probably) a NZ project.
> OLCOS was an European project with collaborators (at Wikieducator.org)
> from NZ. I'm not able to decide where to locate it (in our time of
> networked worldwide cooperations).
>
> Kind regards, best wishes,
> Sandra
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:11:07 +0000
> From: "Bernard, NKUYUBWATSI" <nkuyubwatsi at khi.ac.rw>
> Subject: Re: [Oer-community] OER mapping - Welcome and introduction to
> Week 1
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> Hello Everyone,
>
> I definitely think the OER World map is very helpful in locating OER
> initiative and would facilitate initiating collaboration around OER.
> It would be even more helpful if we would map OER in such a way that
> their open licensing type is indicated (BY, BY-SA, BY-NC, BY-NC-SA,
> BY-ND, BY-NC-ND). Such a distinction would offer more orientation to
> OER users.
>
>
> >See http://ci.olnet.org/#org-orggmap for the resulting geo-map view of
> > organisations and projects.
>
> Could anyone open Patrick's link to the geo-map? I am getting a plain
> world map followed by a pop-up window with the message "There was an
> error loading the geo-map data".
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bernard
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:48:36 -0700
> From: rory <rory at athabascau.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Oer-community] Forwarded message from Fred Mulder
> To: oer-community <oer-community at athabascau.ca>
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> Colleagues,
> As the other UNESCO/COL Chair in OER, I would like to support Fred's
> remarks and our strong support for this mapping initiative. It is an
> integral part of the UNESCO Chair's initiative that has now been joined
> by Dr Wayne Macintosh, the new Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Chair in
> OER. The Chair's programme is charged with helping to build the
> international OER movement in support of UNESCO's millenium goals. The
> mapping exercise will help us to identify collaborator's and others in
> the worldwide OER community that will provide an impetus to the sharing,
> use, reuse, adaptation, localisation and tranlsation of OER. When we
> know about each other we can do amazing things together.
> The Chairs are supporting the OER Knowledge Cloud
> http://oerknowledgecloud.org for researchers in OER issues and the
> Global OER Graduate Network for researchers and students interested in
> research in OER: http://oer.unescochair-ou.nl/?page_id=320
>
> All the best.
> Rory
>
>
>
>
> On 12-11-12 11:21 AM, Susan D'Antoni wrote:
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > Fred is the UNESCO Chair holder at the Open University of the
> > Netherlands. He is about to travel but wanted to give us his reaction
> > to the ultility of mapping OER initiatives.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Susan
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: *Mulder, Fred* <Fred.Mulder at ou.nl <mailto:Fred.Mulder at ou.nl>>
> > Date: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:27 AM
> > Subject: RE: FW: New discussion: Mapping OER initiatives globally
> > To: Susan D'Antoni <susandantoni at gmail.com
> > <mailto:susandantoni at gmail.com>>
> >
> >
> > Mapping the global OER landscape is an important and very useful
> > activity that we should undertake. In the past we have seen various
> > efforts to study a wide variety of OER projects or even to create an
> > overview of the major OER initiatives, both institutional and national
> > or regional. Those efforts, however, were scattered, fragmented, and
> > incidental. We are now at the stage that we could build on all those
> > experiences and could create in a collective manner a
> > well-and-straight-designed map of relevant OER initiatives around the
> > world. It is important that this global OER map will be maintained and
> > kept current, also and again in the community that feels dedicated to
> > this action line. Having smooth and easy access to such a global
> > up-to-date OER map will show the rapid expansion of the OER movement
> > to all who are interested and will further accelerate it by
> > facilitating others to develop their new OER activities, learning from
> > and building on the practices available in the map.
> >
> >
> > / Fred
> >
> >
> >
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> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:55:12 +0000
> From: Martin Hawksey <m.hawksey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Oer-community] OER mapping - Welcome and introduction to
> Week 1
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> > On 12 November 2012 13:42, Susan D'Antoni <susandantoni at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> The very success of the OER movement in its growth over the decade has made it difficult to have a comprehensive overview of the various initiatives in institutions, countries and regions. Sometimes it is even hard to know who is doing what in one?s own environment.
> >> Our discussion ...
> >> Let us consider two main questions, although there will be others:
> >> 1. Would a world map to visualize the global OER landscape be useful? (example below created from OCWC data)
> >> 2. Could the OER community work in collaboration to design, build and maintain such a map?
> >> To start Week 1, let?s consider the first question --
> >> How would a visual OER world map be useful in your own setting and from your own perspective?
>
> In response to Q1 I would ask how useful are similar resources like
> http://newspapermap.com/ ? For me limited. I'm more interested in the
> meso/micro layer of individuals/departments. Initiatives like
> http://architectmap.net/ are more appealing particularly if profiles
> could include resources authored and available from various locations
> ... essentially the http://academia.edu/ of OER
>
> Martin
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