Why Open Education Matters
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Who am I?
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MEd (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
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K-12 and Higher Ed Tech & Training
- Online Course Design & Facilitation
- Open Education + the Web
Who are the OPEN Partners?
- Creative Commons
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Washington SBCTC
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CMU Open Learning Initiative
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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
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government
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science
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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
Legal + Technical
legal code + human readable deed+ metadata
CC in Use
(2010)
CC-Licensed Material
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Wikipedia
(33m+ pages)
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Flickr
(250m+ images and video)
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YouTube
(4m+ videos)
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Khan Academy (3k+ videos)
- MIT OCW (2k+ courses)
- OpenStax College (Peer-reviewed textbooks)
500m+ works today, 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
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$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.”
What will this open licensing do?
- Maximize sharing and reuse, showcase excellent work
- Allow the content to be found on the web easily
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Benefit more educators and independent learners
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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
Image by DKindler
Attributions
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.
More at: open4us.org/faq/#requirement
How should we mark materials?
Which Materials?
(all of them, essentially)
- Recruitment flyers, pamphlets, videos
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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 (1/2)
CHEO: Consortium for Healthcare Education Online
Marking a Website: Example (2/2)
NAC: National Aviation Consortium
DOL funding statement + CC BY mark, in footer of webpages
Marking a Course: Example
Marking Offline Text
Text statement + 
Platform Marking
Flickr on-upload
Platform Marking (again)
YouTube
on-upload
JobTrak PA TAACCCT and CC Overview
By Billy Meinke
