Reviewing OER for Adaption
For this activity, you will find and open educational resource in an open education repository and review the content, license, and file format for adaption.
Adapt an Image & Re-post
Find an openly licensed image and use Pixlr (or another image manipulation program of your choice) and post your creation to your Flickr account or website for others to revise and reuse
Innovation in Scholarly Communications
For this activity, review their crowd-sourced list of over 400 innovations under the DATA tab and select one innovation to review.
Predatory Publishing
For this activity, you are tasked with comparing two open access journals, one that you presume may be of low quality and another that has been vetted by the Directory of Open Access Journals and deemed legitimate.
Publisher Agreements and Knowing Your Rights
Before agreeing to publisher your with a subscription/for-profit publisher, it is important to understand how your copyright is protected and maintained. For this activity, you will review two examples of publisher agreements.
Public Domain and Traditional Knowledge
For this activity you will watch a video and read an article by the Centre for International Governance Innovation Senior Fellow Ruth Okediji on issues with the public domain and its impact on traditional knowledge.
The Case of the Coalition for Responsible Sharing
For this activity, review the Coalition for Responsible Sharing and the open letter (PDF) and write a response to the questions provided.
Create a slide using a CC licensed image
You will need a Slideshare account for this challenge. Decide on a topic and build a 5-10 slide story using open licensed slide decks.
Challenge Bank template
Recent study developed by BC Campus found instructor cited OERs as the type of Open Educational resource they used most often in their courses. Video can involve considerable production time and expense and finding, adopting and and remixing openly licensed videos for a course can not only save time and money and allow you to […]
