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MHEC Policy Summit, Nov 2013

"OER, Open Policy, and MOOCs"


Billy Meinke / Creative Commons
 
This presentation licensed CC BY 

Today



OER & Creative Commons

Open Policy

MOOCs


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


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.

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




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
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

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





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 do MOOCs have to do with it?

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


MOOC Poster by mathplourde / CC BY

COURSERA  |  EdX  |   UDACITY


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

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 controlling content.

MHEC Policy Summit - OER, Open Policy, and MOOCs

By Billy Meinke

MHEC Policy Summit - OER, Open Policy, and MOOCs

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