JobTrak PA TAACCCT and CC Overview

OER and the U.S. DOL TAACCCT Program

Jan 22-23, 2014

PA TAACCCT Conference

Billy Meinke / @billymeinke

This presentation licensed CC BY

Link to this presentation: bit.ly/taaccct-jobtrak

Why Open Education Matters

Why Open Education Matters from Blink Tower on Vimeo.

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.

creativecommons.org/about

Our Mission

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

creativecommons.org/about

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)

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

creativecommons.org/licenses

CC in Use

(2010)

CC-Licensed Material

Wikipedia (33m+ pages)
Flickr (250m+ images and video)
YouTube (4m+ videos)
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

opencourselibrary.org

OpenStax College

(Rice University)

Free | Openly (CC) licensed | Peer reviewed

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

openstaxcollege.org

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)

OPEN4Us.org

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

open4us.org

Find OER

open4us.org/find-oer

Google+ Community

Private discussion forum and direct support for TAACCCT grantees

For More Info

billy.meinke@creativecommons.org

open4us.org | openpolicynetwork.org | schoolofopen.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.

More at: open4us.org/faq/#requirement