OER and the U.S. DOL TAACCCT Program 

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Billy Meinke / @billymeinke 

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Why Open Education Matters

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Who am I?

  • MEd (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
  • K-12 and Higher Ed Tech & Training
  • Online Course Design & Facilitation
  • Open Education + the Web

Who are the OPEN Partners?

  • Creative Commons
  • Washington SBCTC 
  • CMU Open Learning Initiative
  • 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.

Our Mission

 

"Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation."


Areas of Work


education  |  government  |  science  |  culture


Global Affiliate Network

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 Foundation Definition

Open (is better!)

4 R's of Reuse


Reuse |  Revise |  Remix |  Redistribute




What can Open Education do?

Potential of Open Education

  • Extend the reach of public investments
  • Lower costs for students
  • Inspire new technologies and pedagogies



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


CC Licenses



  • CC BY <--for TAACCCT
  • CC BY-NC
  • CC BY ND
  • CC BY-SA
  • CC BY-NC-ND
  • CC BY-NC-SA

and the CC0 (public domain dedication)

    Legal + Technical


    legal code + human readable deed+ metadata

    CC in Use


    (2010)

    CC-Licensed Material




    ~500 million works now, and many more each day.

    SBCTC Open Course Library


    81 high-enrollment courses, saved students $5.4+ million

    OpenStax College

    (Rice University)

    Free  |  Openly (CC) licensed  |  Peer reviewed

    Print on demand at low cost, has saved students $2.3+ million

    TAACCCT

    Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Program



    • $2B Federal grant over 4 years (2011-2015)
    • 185 grants to consortia in all 50 states +D.C. and PR
    • Focused on workforce training, growing industries
    • Development of open courseware, all CC BY
    • This is you! (we are proud to talk about TAACCCT)

    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.”


    In SGA's for all rounds of TAACCCT grants: doleta.gov/taaccct/applicantinfo.cfm

    What will this open licensing do? 

    • Maximize sharing and reuse, showcase excellent work
    • Allow the content to be found on the web easily
    • Benefit more educators and independent learners 
    • Allow for updates/improvements, customization, and extension of your efforts (with credit given to you!)
    • Contribute living, dynamic content to the digital commons


    You are Participating in the OER Movement 


    Thousands of organizations, institutions, educators and learners around the world
     

    OPEN Resources for TAACCCT


    Find OER


    Google+ Community

    Private discussion forum and direct support for TAACCCT grantees

    For More Info


    billy.meinke@creativecommons.org
    taa@creativecommons.org



    Image by DKindler

    Attributions

    Globe by Lorenzo Baldini on the Noun Project
    Tree by Humberto Pornaro on the Noun Project



    Marking and License Details


    For Project Directors



    DOL Grant Specifics


    • All materials created or modified with grant funds must be licensed CC BY, including pre-existing grantee-owned content
    • Only materials created or modified with grant funds are required to be licensed CC BY. Third-party works are subject to the copyright / intellectual property terms under which they were purchased. Works created without grant funds do not fall under the CC BY license requirement.

    Which Materials?

    (all of them, essentially)


    websites | text | images | audio | video

    • Recruitment flyers, pamphlets, videos 
    • Lessons, modules, course packages
    • Assessments, banks/keys and rubrics
    • +others

    Marking Info



    Marking a Website

    For websites, HTML generated from the license chooser

    Marking a Website: Example

     CHEO: Consortium for Healthcare Education Online
    DOL funding statement + CC BY mark, in footer of webpages

    Marking Offline Text

    Text statement + 


    Platform Marking


    Flickr on-upload

    Platform Marking (again)


    YouTube on-upload

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