open educational resources in higher tertiary education in greece

Open Educational Resources in higher tertiary education in Greece

By

Dr. Marinos Papadopoulos

Attorney-at-Law JD, MSc, PhD/JSD

Open Knowledge Foundation Greece

OERs & pre-formatted licensing

Dr. Marinos Papadopoulos | Thessaloniki 2015

The conditional use of works and resources in the case of

educational resources available in an information

commons is a distinctive characteristic of the “Open

Educational Resources” and could, probably, best be served

through the use of use of standard licenses, i.e. pre-

formatted licenses which are available for use ‘as-is’.

OERs has the potential to transform higher education and

create new competition and centers of excellence among

universities.

European MOOC Initiative by the European Association of

Distance Teaching Universities

OER’s elements


1. Learning content such as full courses, courseware packs,

content modules, collections, journals etc.

2. Tools such as software to support the development, use

and reuse, delivery of content, searching mechanisms for

locating content, learning management systems, content

development tools, communities for content aggregation

etc.

3. Implementation resources such as the Creative Commons

or Open Knowledge licenses which promote open

publishing of materials, design principles and policies that

mandate the provisions upon which content is accessible

and available for use, reuse, adaptation etc.

OER’s freedoms


1. The freedom to study a work and apply knowledge offered

from it.

2. The freedom to redistribute copies, in whole or in part, of a

work.

3. The freedom to make improvements or other changes, i.e.

to make adaptations, to the content of a work, and to

release modified copies of it.

OERs in tertiary education in Greece


Sporadic attempts to make available OERs in the

academic environment of tertiary education in Greece, so

far.

The first endeavors regarding OERs in Greece came over in

2000 in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the

National Kapodistrian University of Athens.

An estimation of the current amount of open educational

resources which are based on relevant institutional

repositories in Greece is 62 in total.

OERs in tertiary education in Greece


Younger people are more familiar with new technologies

and OER creation and management.

There is OER respective information lack.

Economic issues seem to be a factor of a great importance

for the perceived creation and use of OERs in the

academic environment in Greece.

Academia in Greek public colleges are quite productive as

far as the educational and research content are concerned

and show high interest in OER creation, though not

through a coordinated manner due to OER policy lack.

Faculties appear to be ready to take action regarding

educational and research content creation and

management.

Faculties believe that OER creation, use and sharing

enhance academic goals.

Kallipos & OERs in Greece


The Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEALlink) has

created “Kallipos” (see http://www.kallipos.gr/) which is

a repository of OERs in the Greek academic environment.

The purpose of “Kallipos” action is the production and

delivery of Open Access electronic books, i.e. the creation

of OERs which will be used by the students of Greek

Universities (Universities and TEI).

“Kallipos” provides funding for the composition and

availability after proper licensing of OERs in the academic

environment of tertiary education in Greece.

http://www.kallipos.gr/

Beneficiaries for OER-production in Kallipos


1. Teachers and University Lecturers

2. Professors and Visiting Professors

3. Emeritus and Retired Professors

4. Special Class Lecturers

5. Special Scientists (with doctoral degrees)

6. Researchers and Professors from foreign institutions.

Criteria for OER-production in Kallipos


1. Relate to at least one undergraduate level course of either

a Department or a Program of Study and/or belongs to at

least one of the respective scientific categories included in

the Subject invitations.

2. It is possible to use the e-Book for the teaching of more

than one course at undergraduate level in similar

Departments / Programs of Study.

3. The content covers required syllabus.

4. Capitalize on as many new technologies as possible and

make use of interactive and multimedia learning objects.

Characteristics for OER produced in Kallipos


1. They are books in digital format, readable by electronic

devices

2. They include multimedia (images, sounds, videos, graphs)

and/or interactive objects.

3. They have the opportunity for interactivity and ease of

navigation, such as search, add and share notes, and to

link to external information resources.

4. Each chapter and interactive e-book object may constitute

an independent “learning object” that could be detached

and reused in another book or become available on the

internet or another electronic medium.

Financing OER production in Kallipos


The maximum funding amount of a positively-evaluated

proposal is ten thousand euro (€ 10000), including the fees

for the Critical Reader which is € 1000.

The maximum fee that a person gets paid as an author

(main or co-author) is defined to fifteen thousand euro (€

15000).

The maximum remuneration of any activity either as a

writer, critical reader or assessor in the “Kallipos” Action

and throughout the duration of the project is twenty

thousand euro (€ 20000).

The level of remuneration for the other participants in the

authorial effort is determined by the senior author.

Members of Academic community in Kallipos


Category Sum

Teaching Member of special category 219

Expert Scientist 288

Visiting or Emeritus Professor 80

Researcher from research organization in the Public Sector 27

Researcher from research organization in the Private Sector 19

Professor or Researcher from abroad 52

Professor or Lecturer from Greece 3090

Number of Registered Members 3775



Academic Institution Sum

Aegean University 133

University of Western Macedonia 29

University of Thessaly 202

University of Ioannina 165

University of Crete 156

University of Macedonia 58

University of Patras 227

University of Piraeus 47

University of Peloponnese 64

Pantion University 65

Technical University of Crete 39

Technological Educational Institute of Athens 162

Eastern Macedonian and Thrace Institute of Technology 27

Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece 49

Technological Educational Institute of Western

Macedonia

32

Technological Educational Institute of Epirus 19

Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly 69

Technological Educational Institute of Ionian Islands 10




Alexander Technological Educational Institute of

Thessaloniki

57

University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki 3

Athens School of Fine Arts 10

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 638

School of Pedagogical and Technological Education 20

Agricultural University of Athens 50

Democritus University of Thrace 159

International Hellenic University 3

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens 476

National Technical University 265

Hellenic Open University 51

Ionian University 49

Athens University of Economics and Business 40




Technological Educational Institute of Central

Macedonia

32

Technological Educational Institute of Crete 64

Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus 45

Technological Educational Institute of Peloponnese 22

Technological Educational Institute of Central Greece 45

Harokopio University 45

Ν/Α 148

Sum 3775

Licensing options in Kallipos


There is only the option of choosing between two among

the six Creative Commons licenses

1. The ported Greek version 3.0 of Creative Commons license Attribution—Non-Commercial—Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA

v.3.0) or

2. The ported Greek version 3.0 of Creative Commons license Attribution—Non-Commercial—No-Derivative (CC BY-NC-ND

v.3.0).

Licensing options in Kallipos


I have produced and provide in the Annex of this conference

participation’s paper the Greek translation of the two Creative

Commons licenses version 4.0 used in Kallipos.

Attribution---Non-Commercial---Share Alike v.4.0 International

Αναφορά---Μη-Εμπορική χρήση---Παρόμοια Διανομή v.4.0 Διεθνής

Άδεια

Attribution---Non-Commercial---No derivative v.4.0 International

Αναφορά---Μη-Εμπορική χρήση---Όχι Παράγωγο έργο v.4.0 Διεθνής

Άδεια

The full paper including the translated licenses can be found at

the speaker’s Academia account available at

https://independent.academia.edu/DrMarinosPapadopoulos

https://independent.academia.edu/DrMarinosPapadopoulos

Open Educational Resources in higher tertiary education in Greece

Thank you!


open educational resources in higher tertiary education in greece

Law

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kallipos oers

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content modules

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