Open academia in practice

Workshop outline

 * 1) Visit http://open-academia.blogspot.com and do the 5 second survey
 * 2) Create a Wikiversity account
 * 3) Introduce your self
 * 4) Review the main points of the openism and freedom in academia seminar
 * 5) Tour the Educational Media Awareness Campaign
 * 6) Look at copyright and free and restricted licenses
 * 7) How to find free content
 * 8) Find free content on your topic and add links to Wikiversity
 * 9) Sign the participant list for this workshop
 * 10) Showcase - let's see what you found
 * 11) Feedback - leave comments on the blog


 * Video recordings
 * Introduction to the workshop: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.
 * Introduction to Wikiversity: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.
 * Copyright options: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.
 * Wikimedia Commons: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.
 * Creative Commons Search: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.

Openism and freedom in academia
Video recording of James introducing the workshop and open academia (Blip.tv)

Academia should be conducted in such a way as to benefit society. This means (among other things) that the processes and products of publically-funded academics' activities should, by default, be freely accessible and re-usable. It also means that academia should use and promote tools (such as software) and materials (such as textbooks) which enable others to utilise and foster public knowledge. However, open academia is a cultural challenge because closedness is the norm.

Open academia is proposed to involve five pillars: open access, open licensing, open formats, free software and open management.



For more, see Going naked - Openism and freedom in academia

Educational Media Awareness Campaign
Video of James showing the Wikimedia Commons (Blip.tv)


 * Explore the Educational Media Awareness Campaign by subject
 * See also: 10 things you may not know about images on Wikipedia

Copyright restrictions and freedoms
Video recording of James explaining copyright (Blip.tv)

Find and use free content
Video of James introducing the Creative Commons Search engine (Blip.tv)

Showcase


We'll copy great finds here..?