OK, so Open Learning – Sharing and Openness then.
Let’s start with what openness means for my own teaching. Up until a year ago, I pretty much ripped off and used just about any material I wanted and could get my hands on in my courses. It could be a YouTube video, a song on Spotify or a figure or model from an internet page. It didn’t really matter because my courses and its content were not public so no laws of copyright were broken, the way I saw it. Then I began my YouTube channel and started to put my lectures on YT as well as in my courses. It was an unintentional and a bit immature way of open publishing you might say. I knew that my YT videos could not contain material that was copyrighted so my approach when it came to producing video lectures started to change. This was because I did not want to make two lectures on more or less the same subject. So therefore, in the process my closed university courses lectures have become cleaner when it comes to the subject of copyright. I want to use pretty much the same stuff in my open YT videos, and thus avoid duplication of effort (even though a bit of duplication of effort has its benefits, the second time I do a lecture it will turn out nicer and more professional). I would, by the way, like to see some research on this subject: how much duplication of effort is actually beneficial and when does it become a waste of time?
The second point I would like to reflect on is open educational resources and the use of openly licensed resources. This course has opened my eyes on licensed resources such as Creative Commons, which is something that I in the past have not bothered to learn about the nature of. Further, the particulars of the open publishing concept, ie. the five principles re-use, re-distribute, revise, re-mix and retain was even more news to me. If I start to put a CC BY-NC license (which means that all five principles are met) on my YT-lectures, then another teacher (or a student or anybody else) would be able to use my material, which would be pretty awesome.
For Topic 2, by the way, we used Creative Commons licensed music from Jamendo, a site that revealed the fledgling status of openly licensed resources as compared with eg. Spotify. So our ONL201 take on sharing and openness had a crappy soundtrack, thanks to Jamendo. Well you must begin somewhere I guess.
References
Bates, T. (2019). Teaching in a Digital Age – Second Edition. Chapter 11.2.
https://www.jamendo.com/
Reflections on Topic 2