Creative Commons
and the U.S. DOL TAACCCT Program
C6 Consortium Hackathon, Jan 7&8 2014
Billy Meinke / @billymeinke
Creative Commons
This presentation licensed CC BY
Link to this presentation: bit.ly/c6-taaccct
Who am I?
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M.Ed (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
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K-12 and Higher Ed
- Online Course Design & Facilitation
- Open Web, to Open Education
We can provide education opportunities to everyone.
For free.
Who are the OPEN Partners?
- Creative Commons
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Washington SBCTC
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CMU Open Learning Initiative
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Stanford University
- CAST
Open, high quality, accessible learning resources.
What is CC?
Creative Commons
is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
What is OER?
"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
Our Mission
"Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation."
Areas of Work
Global Affiliate Network
education
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government
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science
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culture
icon by jerry wang, from The Noun Project
Open (is better!)
4 R's of Reuse
Reuse |
Revise |
Remix |
Redistribute
CC Licenses
- CC BY <--for TAACCCT
- CC BY-NC
- CC BY ND
- CC BY-SA
- CC BY-NC-ND
- CC BY-NC-SA
- CC0 (public domain dedication)
What Our Licenses Do
Provide a simple, standardized way for creators to grant copyright permissions to their creative work.
icon by Ilsur Aptukov, from The Noun Project
Legal + Technical
legal code + human readable deed+ metadata
CC-Licensed Material
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Wikipedia
(all CC BY-SA)
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Flickr
(250M+ open-licensed media)
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YouTube
(4M+ videos)
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Khan Academy (3,000+ videos)
- MIT OCW (2000+ courses)
~500 million works now, and lots more each day.
Case Study > U.S. DOL TAACCCT
Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program (TAACCCT)
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$2B Federal grant over 4 years (2011-2015)
- Development of open courseware, all CC BY
- This is YOU! (we talk about TAACCCT a lot)
CC BY Requirement for TAACCCT
- All materials produced or modified with DOL funds are to be openly licensed CC BY
- Deliverables are to be primarily OER, combined with proprietary content based on specifics of grant
- Building a pool of OER that will provide a foundation for 2-year institutions
“to ensure that materials developed with funds provided by these grants result in work that can be freely reused and improved by others.”
What will this open licensing do?
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Allow for greatest sharing and reuse
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Allow for updates/improvements, customization, and extension of your efforts (with credit given to you!)
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Help impact many populations beyond the origin population served
Gift / Stefan Parnarov / The noun project
You are Participating in the OER Movement
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Thousands of organizations, institutions, and educators around the world
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Dedication to furthering universal access to education
For More Info
billy.meinke@creativecommons.org
taa@creativecommons.org
