Open pedagogy and Copyright

Open Pedagogy does have some elements of copyright to consider. 

A couple of great resources:

  • A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students : A handbook for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other Open Educational Resources. This is a first edition, compiled by Rebus Community, and we welcome feedback and ideas to expand the text.
  • Student Author Agreements : An example of a Student Author Agreement.
Most publish materials under a Creative Commons license.
A brief summary image is provided below but more can be found on the Creative Commons site.

JoKalliauer; foter, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Image above Created by Kennisland published under a CC0 license.

The chart above shows the compatibility of all licenses. All materials must be harmonious to be published together. This is particularly important for Share Alike license.

You can also use the Creative Commons License chooser

To help students understand there is a book called “The Open Pedagogy Student Toolkit” with a particular chapter about creator rights.