2nd Learning reflection | Gordana Jugo's ePortfolio

"I started learning in Session 2 by watching David Wiley’s video on OER definition. David Wiley has a gift to express complex concepts in a simple and memorable way. He says that openess is about price and permissions, or more specifically: openess = free access + free permissions (4Rs: reuse, revise, remix & redistribute). I published this equation on Twitter. An Eben Moglen & Lawrence Lessig’ video is very different – they are trying to show the absurd of the current IPR system that favors distributors, not authors. Eben Moglen gives examples of ideas travelling through history using several human minds, which is hardly possible nowadays when knowledge has been turned into commodity. Lawrence Lessig shows a case of Walt Disney – a brilliant mixer who brought the brothers Grimm’s stories to children worldwide. Ironically, the Walt Disney company today strive to stop other of doing the same thing. It is importnat to achieve a balance between freedom to create on the one side and respect for creator on the other. Talking about Disney and the brothers Grimm, I’m not sure if Disney properly attributed  their stories representing a base to his films. (Although the brothers Grimm are not the authors of the stories, they are actually distributors since they collected and recorded folk stories.) All three OER definitions offered in course are great, however I’ve chosen a Creative Commons definition for microblog: “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others” because it states purpose, types of licensing and media (any medium, not just digital media) ..."