For this activity, review their crowd-sourced list of over 400 innovations under the DATA tab and select one innovation to review.
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Predatory Publishing
For this activity, you are tasked with comparing two open access journals, one that you presume may be of low quality and another that has been vetted by the Directory of Open Access Journals and deemed legitimate.
Journal Self-archiving Policies
For this activity, consult SHERPA/RoMEO and try to locate the relevant policy for 3 journals you have published with in the past or hope to publish with in the future.
Publisher Agreements and Knowing Your Rights
Before agreeing to publisher your with a subscription/for-profit publisher, it is important to understand how your copyright is protected and maintained. For this activity, you will review two examples of publisher agreements.
Public Domain and Traditional Knowledge
For this activity you will watch a video and read an article by the Centre for International Governance Innovation Senior Fellow Ruth Okediji on issues with the public domain and its impact on traditional knowledge.
The Case of the Coalition for Responsible Sharing
For this activity, review the Coalition for Responsible Sharing and the open letter (PDF) and write a response to the questions provided.
Create a Slideshare Remix
You will need a Slideshare account for this challenge. Decide on a topic and build a 5-10 slide story using open licensed slide decks.
Find and remix an open video resource
For this activity, you will find a Creative Commons Licensed on YouTube, remix it. When you are finished license and share the new YouTube video using the comment below
Challenge Bank template
Recent study developed by BC Campus found instructor cited OERs as the type of Open Educational resource they used most often in their courses. Video can involve considerable production time and expense and finding, adopting and and remixing openly licensed videos for a course can not only save time and money and allow you to more… »