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"OER, Open Policy, and MOOCs"

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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.

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

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