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This evening I chanced on a twitter post by Javiera Atenas (@jatenas) noting that Oxford University now have over 1,000 podcasts available for use in teaching via http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open. I’ve known for some time that Oxford were building up a bank of recordings licensed for individual use, but had missed this OER aspect, carried out through their OpenSpires project.
These podcasts differ from those on iTunesU, in that not only can you now legally distribute a recording to others, e.g. you can now play it in a taught session or upload it directly to a VLE (as long as you credit Oxford University and don’t charge for it), but you are also able to edit and repurpose the podcast (to provide, for example, just a short clip in a lecture, or a “listen to this clip then answer the questions” activity, and so on). If you do this, you will also need to release any new resource you make under a similar Creative Commons licence and, of course, credit Oxford as the original source. You’re also under an obligation not to “subject the Work to any derogatory treatment as defined in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988” (the act says, “the treatment of a work is derogatory if it amounts to distortion or mutilation of the work or is otherwise prejudicial to the honour or reputation of the author or director”), but that would surely go without saying.
So go ahead, have a browse, let us know if you find something useful and let us know how you use it.