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.
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
Expression
legal code + human readable deed+ metadata
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
SBCTC Open Course Library
81 high-enrollment courses, saved students $5.4+ million
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
OER Policy Registry
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?
CC Education INitiatives
Project OPEN - open4us.org
School of Open - schoolofopen.org
Open Policy Network - openpolicynetwork.org