Creative Commons

& Open Educational Resources


Billy Meinke / @billymeinke
This presentation licensed CC BY 

Overview


Creative Commons (the org + network)
CC Licenses (the suite of tools)
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Policy (changing the way funding flows)
MOOCS (not always open)

Q&A

First, A Question to ponder



What if everything were OER?



Forest service person - 1939 by Cocino National Forest / CC BY-SA

Creative Commons



Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.

creativecommons.org/about

What Our Licenses Do


Provide a simple, standardized way for creators to grant copyright permissions to their creative work.

Copyright

(older than the Web, wasn't designed for it)

Copyright licenses that forge a balance inside the traditional "all rights reserved" setting of copyright


Areas of Work

education  |  government  |  science  |  culture


Global Affiliate Network, 75+ affiliates

The licenses

Creators have a choice
                                 

commercial use | derivative works | downstream copyright

Some rights are reserved, but sharing is made easy.
(and creators always get attribution)

CC Licenses

 
  • CC BY    
  • CC BY-NC
  • CC BY ND
  • CC BY-SA
  • CC BY-NC-ND
  • CC BY-NC-SA

and CC0 (public domain dedication)

Expression



legal code + human readable deed+ metadata

creativecommons.org/licenses

The remix


not just access, it's about repurposing, too

CC in Use


...and more each day.

Definition of OER

(Open Educational Resources)


"OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others."




Potential of oER

  • Extend the reach of public investments
  • Make education accessible to all
  • Inspire innovation in tech and pedagogy 





What do OERs look like?


OpenStax College

(Rice University)

Free  |  Openly (CC) licensed  |  Peer reviewed

Print on demand at low cost, has saved students $2.3+ million
openstaxcollege.org

SBCTC Open Course Library


81 high-enrollment courses, saved students $5.4+ million
opencourselibrary.org

Find OER


open4us.org/find-oer




What does an open policy look like?




A closed model.
How can we do better?


An open model.

TAACCCT

(Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training)


"To ensure that Federal investment of these funds has as broad an impact as possible and to encourage innovation in the development of new learning materials."

U.S. Dept of Labor Grants - $2b investment
Health, Adv Manufacturing, IT , Energy+more
All courseware licensed CC BY

California Community Colleges


Open licensing (CC BY) on all educational resources created with public funds from all Chancellor's Office grants

creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/39457

OER Policy Registry


oerpolicies.org




What about MOOCs?

MOOCs


cMOOC
Connectivism, open web
Culture of remixing, DS106-style
Communities of learners
The Web is the platform

xMOOC
Access only, walled gardens
Scaled in size
promise of personalized learning
(we're still waiting)


MOOC Poster by mathplourde / CC BY

COURSERA  |  EdX  |   UDACITY


Massive Open Online Course?
Under lock and key  by Janet Ramsden /  CC BY  

CC Education INitiatives


Project OPEN - open4us.org
School of Open - schoolofopen.org
Open Policy Network - openpolicynetwork.org

Attributions


Globe by Lorenzo Baldini on the Noun Project
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