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OERs
Open Educational Resources Glossary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Attribution | Recognizing the course of borrowed materials |
| Community of Practice | A group with a common interest, craft or profession; can evolve naturally or be created for a specific purpose (also CoP) |
| Creative Commons Licence | Licences applied to published work online offering simple, clear information about what other people can & can't do with that work |
| Copyright | A form of "intellectual property" that gives the owner (usually the author) of an original work exclusive rights relating to the copying, dissemination, & adaption of the work |
| Exchange | To make resources available with the guarantee, or at least the expectation, that the beneficiary will reciprocate |
| Granularity | The pedagogic scale of a resource - ranging from a single image to an entire online course |
| Intellectual Property Rights | A generic term relating to copyright, trademarks, patents, & other claims for "ownership" of a resource - registered or unregistered (also IPR) |
| Learning Resources | Educational resources, digital or otherwise, used to support learning |
| Metadata | "Data about data" - i.e. basic descriptive data that help users find & use a resource more easily |
| Open Access | A publishing model whereby authors make their content freely available, albeit often with partial copyright restrictions or low copyright barriers |
| Open Movement | A catch-all term referring to those who support attempts to make information freely available |
| Open Source | Software for which the source code is available to the general public for use &/or modification from its original design |
| Open Standards | Public standards (de jure, those created formally by a standardization body; de facto, those which gain "critical mass" through near-universal adoption) |
| Reuse | Make use of a resource as it is, for the original purpose intended |
| Repository | A place for storage and retrieval of digital resources |
| Repurpose | Use a resource either after modification or for a purpose other than that for which it was originally created |
| Sharing | Make resources available without expectation of a reciprocal act |
| Ancillary Materials | Resources, services, and materials developed by textbook publishers to enhance student learning & increase the value of the textbook |
| Creative Commons | A non-profit organization that manages a set of open-content licenses for the use, reuse, & distribution of materials |
| Fair Use | (US) The legal term for allowing use of copyrighted materials under certain allowable conditions without permission from the copyright holder; still credit the source |
| Folksonomy | User generated classification system that often uses tags to describe content |
| Learning Object | A digital resource that can be reused to enhance teaching and learning |
| Licensing | The process of choosing and assigning a license to an open educational resource by the original creator of that resource |
| Localization | The process through which educational resources are adapted to meet local teaching and learning needs |
| Open Textbook | Digitized textbooks freely available with nonrestrictive licenses |
| Peer Production | The process of online, collaborative content creation by peers, most often facilitated through an authoring platform or wiki |
| Public Domain | The state of being no longer under copyright protection & so freely usable by anyone |
| Remix | Adapt, modify, or reinterpret a resource, possibly combining fragments from various sources |
| Tags | Words assigned to resources in a user-generated classification system; a searchable way to find a resource & related material |
| Tag Cloud | A visual representation for text data, typically used to depict keyword metadata on websites, or to visualize free form text |
| Textbook | A manual of instruction in any branch of study |
| URL | Uniform Resource Links (or Locators) are better known as web addresses |
| Wiki | A type of content management system in which content is created without any defined owner or leader, allowing people to add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with others |
| Digital Rights Management (DRM) | A systematic approach to copyright protection for digital media to prevent unauthorized redistribution & restrict the ways consumers can copy purchased content |
| Fair Dealing | (CDN) The legal term for allowing use of copyrighted materials under certain allowable conditions without permission from the copyright holder; still credit the source |
| MOOC | Massive Open Online Course, an online course aiming at large-scale participation and open access |
| Open Courseware (OCW) | Courses or course components that are freely available under an open licence |
| Open Education Resource (OER) | Educational materials freely accessible & openly licensed for anyone to legally & freely copy, (re)use, adapt, & re-share |
| TALS | An acronym for Title, Author, License, Source - the key elements needed when creating attribution for an open source |
| Open Research | Research conducted using open practices & approaches; data will be openly published & research papers will be be open access |
| Open Repository | A repository that is fully open to users by containing open access materials & openly licensed metadata |
| Open Practitioner | An individual who embraces open technologies & approaches in teaching |
| Open Practice | Using open technologies, approaches, & open pedagogy as part of teaching |
| Open Pedagogy | Teaching that incorporates open technologies & approaches such as use of OERs |
| Open Learning | Learning that incorporates open technologies and approaches |
| Open Data | Data that can be freely used, reused, & redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute & sharealike |
| Open Assessment | The process of making assessment of students work open & driven by community rather than closed and proprietary |
| Open | Describing a piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it |
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