Remix and the essential elements of digital literacies

Welcome to the last week of the course. In previous weeks you had a chance to reflect on the way you learn, on how you engage with the web and the skills you need to be more effective online, and found out about MOOCs. For this last part of the course we look at the concept of digital literacies from an open perspective.

The video below is a recording of open educational thinkerer Doug Belshaw [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] 's talk at TEDxWarwick 2012. Watch him put the concept of remix at the heart of digital literacies. Digital literacies are those capabilities which support living, learning and working in a digital society which are more than digital skills. Digital literacies are the digital knowledge that we have that can be transferred from one digital context to another. As such, digital literacies are a lifelong project.

Remix is one of the five activities that define when resources available on the web can be considered open, together with:

1. Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
2. Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
3. Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
4. Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
5. Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)

These are the 5Rs permissions.

This is what Banjar had to say about sharing his work.