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Open Educational Resources Glossary

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