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U.S. State Dept. Open Book Project

"OER & Open Policy "


Billy Meinke / Creative Commons
@billymeinke / billy.meinke@creativecommons.org

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Today



Creative Commons, History & Licenses (Kat)

Open Policy - What does it look like?

Examples of OERs

Q&A

A Question to ponder



What if everything were OER?



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

Potential of open Policy

  • Extend the reach of public investments
  • Lower costs for students
  • Inspire new technologies and pedagogies



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."


-Hewlett definition
UNESCO, OECD, + more

The remix


not just access, it's about repurposing, too

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

Creators have a choice


                                 

commercial use | derivative works | downstream copyright


Some rights can be reserved, but sharing is made easy.
(and you always get attribution)

CC in Use


...and more each day.

Expression



legal code + human readable deed+ metadata

creativecommons.org/licenses




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 - $2 billion over 4 years
Health, Manufacturing, IT +more, focus on employment
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

Durbin Open TExtbook Bill

Affordable College Textbook Act (2013)
Sen. Durbin and Sen. Franken

Opensourceway / CC BY-SA

Grant program to fund pilots, revise, report on student savings

creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/40598

OER Policy Registry


oerpolicies.org




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

Things we know

Access to knowledge is a human right.
The cost of copying digital works is almost zero.
The cost of transmitting digital works is almost zero.



Let's focus on things beyond the content.

Q & A



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