Free OPEN Support OER Implementing the Creative Commons

Free OPEN Support: OER & Implementing the Creative Commons BY License Requirement Cathy Casserly, Creative Commons

(1) Sign up for free support @ Open 4 us. org (2) Save the date! OPEN Kick-off Conference will be: May 30 -31, 2012 (3) Tell your project about OPEN!

“OPEN” Consortia will Support ALL DOL TAACCCT Grantees

To understand We must understand ©

Why should we care about copyright?

A simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to your creative work. 7

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TAACCCT & CC BY “…as a condition of the receipt of a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant (“Grant”), the Grantee will be required to license to the public (not including the Federal Government) all work created with the support of the grant (“Work”) under a Creative Commons Attribution 3. 0 License (“License”). ”

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Human Readable Deed

Lawyer Readable Legal Code

<span xmlns: cc="http: //creativecommons. org/ns#" xmlns: dc="http: //purl. org/dc/elements/1. 1/"> Machine Readable Metadata <span rel="dc: type" href="http: //purl. org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc: title">My Photo</span> by <a rel="cc: attribution. URL" property="cc: attribution. Name" href="http: //joi. ito. com/my_photo">Joi Ito</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http: //creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3. 0/">Creati ve Commons Attribution 3. 0 License</a>. <span rel="dc: source" href="http: //fredbenenson. com/photo"/> Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at <a rel="cc: more. Permissions" href="http: //ozmo. com/revenue_sharing_agreement">OZM O</a>. </span>

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Why Creative Commons for OER?

Search & Discovery

Translations & Accessibility

Customization & Affordability

Creative Commons GOALS • Provide high quality, affordable, openly licensed educational resources to all • Publicly funded educational materials = publicly available (open license) • Build a strong culture of data-driven continuous improvement and sharing in higher ed leveraging open tech • Yield higher return on investment in students and workforce development

Creative Commons Services (for you) • Support for open licensing your DOL funded work with CC BY. • Help you find existing OER that might be used in your project. • Advice on technical interoperability. http: //open 4 us. org/services

Upcoming Milestones 1 year: • Build and deliver supporting comprehensive materials, webinars, kick-off meeting with grantees. • Plan and begin to develop tiered services • Begin formulating research methods to gauge impact. • Engage Wave 2 DOL grantees.

Long-term Milestones 3 years: • Perfect CC BY licensing implementation • Grantees able to carry on OER creation/publication • Set of high quality supporting materials • Retention of CC BY throughout TAACCCT waves • CC BY expanded to other government programs • Testing and evaluation to show positive impact of services overall

(1) Sign up for free support @ Open 4 us. org (2) Save the date! OPEN Kick-off Conference will be: May 30 -31, 2012 (3) Tell your project about OPEN!

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