Creative Commons
and Open Educational Resources
Billy Meinke / @billymeinke
Project Assistant, Creative Commons
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 to everyone.
For free.
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
Worldwide Affiliate Network
education
|
government
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science
|
culture
icon by jerry wang, from The Noun Project
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
The Commons
copied | redistributed | revised
& built-upon
The CC LIcenses
Copyright licenses that forge a balance inside the traditional "all rights reserved" setting of copyright
icon by Ritika khasgiwale, from The Noun Project
MOOCs
"Massive Open Online Courses"
Coursera | Udacity | edX
Access is (mostly) free, but they are
not
open
icon by joe mortell, from The Noun Project
Open (is better!)
4 R's of Reuse
Reuse |
Revise |
Remix |
Redistribute
Can we do this with textbooks?
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YES!
CC Licenses
- CC BY
- CC BY-NC
- CC BY ND
- CC BY-SA
- CC BY-NC-ND
- CC BY-NC-SA
- CC0 (public domain dedication)
A LIcense for You
it's your choice
CC-Licensed Stuff
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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)
- Directory of OA Journals (1M+ articles)
- Khan Academy (3,000+ videos)
- MIT OCW (2000+ courses)
and lots more each day.
Case Studies
Washington State Board of Community & Technical Colleges
(SBCTC)
- Open Course Library - 81 courses
- $5.5M in student savings (2011-2013)
- Average materials cost ~$15 vs. $135
Case Studies
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
- ~2,500 open textbooks
- Peer review + Editorial process
Case Studies
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
- Guided by CC, CMU OLI, CAST, & SBCTC
Be a Part of the Community
Be a part of the open education community and begin to work with OER.
For More Info
billy.meinke@creativecommons.org
