The document discusses open licensing and open educational resources (OER). It describes how Creative Commons licenses allow creators to easily share their work legally while retaining copyright. OER are teaching resources that can be freely used and modified, as outlined by the 5R framework of reuse, revise, remix, retain, and redistribute. The document advocates for open policies and practices in education to increase access to knowledge and collaboration.

1. Qatar University
Technology Enhanced Learning & Openness
Doha
29-October-2014
Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons
Except where otherwise noted these materials
are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY)

2. Grow and protect the public commons by creating
legal & technical tools, campaigns, and policy
designed to maximize creativity, sharing, and innovation.
Our vision is nothing less than realizing the full potential of the Internet – universal access to research,
education, & full participation in culture, driving a new era of development, growth, & productivity.
http://creativecommons.org

3. The problem:
Traditional © designed
for old distribution
models

4. Technically easy to share but
legally not so easy.
Internet by Pat Guiney CC BY

5. creativecommons.org

6. What do we do?
We make sharing
content easy, legal, and
scalable.

7. How do we do it?
Free © licenses that
creators can attach
to their works

9. Step 1: Choose Conditions
Attribution
ShareAlike
NonCommercial
NoDerivatives

10. Step 2: Receive a License

11. most free
least free

13. Lawyer
Readable
Legal Code

14. Human
Readable
Deed

15. Machine
Readable
Metadata

17. Open Content

18. Photos
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
https://www.google.ca/imghp

19. Video
http://www.youtube.com/creativecommons
http://vimeo.com/creativecommons

20. Music
https://soundcloud.com
http://www.jamendo.com

21. Journalism & Broadcast

22. Writers Musicians
Cory Doctorow
Filmmakers Artists
http://www.tpbafk.tv
Jonathan Mann
http://jonathanmann.net/
http://craphound.com/
Jonathan Worth
http://jonathanworth.com
Simon Klose

23. Europe’s digital library — has released 20 million records into
the public domain using the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
This release is the largest one-time dedication of cultural data
to the public domain using CC0. The Europeana dataset
consists of descriptive information from a huge trove of
digitized cultural and artistic works.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
Museums
Rijksmuseum case
study: Sharing free,
high quality images
without restrictions
makes good things
happen
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/
Thousands of years
of visual culture
made free through
Wellcome Images
Libraries
http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/01/thousands-of-years-of-visual-culture-made-free-through-wellcome-images/
http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/how-the-rijksmuseum-opened-up-its-collection-a-case-study

24. Wikipedia: Over 77,000 contributors working
on over 22 million articles in 285 languages

25. Openness in Education

26. OER are teaching, learning, and research
resources that reside in the public domain or have
been released under an open license that permits
their free use and re-purposing by others.
Open educational resources include full courses
and supplemental resources such as textbooks,
images, videos, animations, simulations,
assessments, …

27. most free
least free
OER
Not OER

28. 5Rs: The Powerful Rights of OER
• Make, own, and control your own copy of
the content Retain
Reuse • Use the content in its unaltered form
• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the
content Revise
• Combine the original or revised content with
other OER to create something new Remix
• Share your copies of the original content,
revisions, or remixes with others Redistribute

29. OER is Global
http://khanacademy.org
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
http://projects.siyavula.com http://nroer.in/

30. Open Textbooks
http://open.bccampus.ca
http://www.openstax.org
Free | Openly (CC) Licensed | Peer Reviewed
Print on demand at low cost.

31. OpenStax College
(Rice University)
Free | Openly (CC) Licensed | Peer Reviewed
Print on demand at low cost.

32. Strategic Purpose
• Social and/or economic reasons?
• Academic reasons?
• Beyond generalities like “enriching the
knowledge economy”
• A few examples …
Why do OER?

33. Global Economy
free trade
offshore outsourcing
imports
Positives
• lower prices
• higher efficiency
• more jobs
• quality
Economic Adjustments Required
Negatives
• displaced workers
• unemployment
• lower wages
• low & obsolescent skills
• personal & family hardship

34. Economic Adjustment – Grant Program
• $2 billion grant funding over 4 years starting 2011
• Grants provided to community colleges partnered with
high growth industry sectors
• Produce stackable/latticed credentials (certificates &
diplomas) of 2 years or less duration
• Use online & technology enabled learning, evidence
based design, universal design for learning, OER
Grant requires all newly developed materials be CC BY!

35. High Growth Industry Sectors
Generating OER for Fields of Study With Few Existing OER
Bridging Health Manufacturing
Basic Education
Energy
Transportation Information
Technology

36. Labour market demand - high
growth industry sectors
Employers & Industry
Design & delivery of employer
sponsored work-based training
models
Community Colleges
(Consortia – in state &
interstate)
1. Evidence Based
Design
• use evidence to
design program
strategies
• base program
design on a level of
evidence
• use data for
continuous
improvement of
programs
2. Stacked &
Latticed
Credentials
• post-secondary
credentials that
have labor market
value
• certificates,
certifications,
diplomas, and
degrees
• competency-based
educational
programs
3. Transferability &
Articulation
• career pathways
that transfer and
articulate
• within and across
state lines & within
consortia
• bridge from non-credit
to credit
• build on previously
funded courses &
credentials
4. Online & Tech-
Enabled Learning
• hybrid and blended
learning strategies
• open enrollment,
modularize content,
accelerate course
delivery, interactive
simulations,
gaming, digital
tutors, synchronous
& asynchronous, …
• OER & UDL
5. Strategic
Alignment
• outreach to
community -
employers and
industry, public
workforce system,
non-profit
organizations,
philanthropies …
• leverage supports
& do not duplicate
existing programs
Six Core Elements
Local workforce investment
board
Public Workforce System
Job centers, adult education
agencies, career and technical
education agencies
Partnerships
6. Align with Previously-Funded TAACCCT Projects

37. Why did we do this?
“We did this because open licensing increases
the impact of our investment and helps us to
be more strategic with our future investments.”

38. “From a public policy perspective, the
Department is a better steward of public funds
by giving the public access to those things
created using public funds, and ensuring that
these products have as wide spread a use as
possible.”

39. “TAACCCT is a really big investment. But we
expect that OER will allow the impact to be
even greater than just the 800 colleges with
new curricula and equipment that we directly
funded.”

40. KEY POLICY: Education Grant Programs
“All newly developed materials must be CC BY.”
From
• displaced workers
• unemployment
• lower wages
• low & obsolescent skills
• personal & family hardship
To
• employed workers
• higher skills
• higher wages
• growth industries

41. 2003-12 OER initiative to create new for credit online learning
Oct-2012 BC Ministry of Advanced Education funds Canada’s
first official open textbook project.
It wants open textbooks for the 40 most popular post-secondary
courses in the province.

42. • Save students $
• Generate collaboration
among institutions and
across faculty at
multiple institutions
• Localize and adapt
textbooks for Canadian
context
• Faculty fellows

43. Open Practices
“In today’s society, individuals often collaborate
in producing cultural content, knowledge and
other information, as well as physical goods. In
some cases, these individuals share the results
and products, the means, methods and
experience gained from this collaboration as a
resource for further development; this
phenomenon is referred to as commons-based
peer production.”
Peter Troxler in Libraries of the Peer Production Era

44. Open Practices
How do faculty and students
• Create content?
• Find content?
• Share content?
• Interact with content?
• Interact with each other?
• Collaborate vs. compete?
Education Is Sharing
• Teacher to student
• Student to teacher
• Institution to world

46. Open Policy
Public funds should
result in a public good.
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/page/2
• 9-Sep-2013 California Community Colleges Board of Governors
votes unanimously to require open licensing on publicly funded
materials resulting from all Chancellor’s Office contracts and grants.
• With 72 districts and 112 colleges, the California Community
Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the world to now
require a CC BY license on its publicly funded grant materials.

48. Open Policy - Complements Practice
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry

49. Education Research & Data

50. Open Access & Open Data
Open Science Logo by gemmerich CC BY-SA
Open Data Stickers by jwyg CC0

51. Open access (OA) means
unrestricted access via the
Internet to peer-reviewed
scholarly research.
There are two roads to OA:
1. the "golden road" of OA journal-publishing ,
where journals provide OA to their articles
(either by charging the author-institution for
refereeing/publishing outgoing articles instead
of charging the user-institution for accessing
incoming articles, or by simply making their
online edition free for all)
2. the "green road" of OA self-archiving, where
authors provide OA to their own published
articles, by putting them up online or in an
institutional repository where all can access.

52. Open Data Stickers by jwyg CC0
Scientific research data made
publicly available. Can also
be data from government or
GLAM organizations.
• made available in convenient, modifiable, and
open formats that can be retrieved, downloaded,
indexed, and searched
• formats are machine-readable and structured to
allow automated processing
• made available to the widest range of users for
the widest range of purposes
figshare is a repository where users can
make all of their research outputs (figures,
datasets, media, papers, posters,
presentations and filesets) available in a
citable, shareable and discoverable manner.
http://figshare.com
http://theodi.org
http://schoolofdata.org

53. House of Knowledge Variation1 by Adrien Sifre CC BY-NC-ND
Open Pedagogies

54. Improve course materials
http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/

55. Add to/improve the global knowledge commons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem

56. Design course assignments
http://assignments.ds106.us/

57. Create/curate supplemental resources
http://wiki.ubc.ca/Science:Math_Exam_Resources
https://www.oercommons.org/

58. Benefits
• Brings peer review process to educational material
• Higher quality
• Modify, localize, translate, and update – make it better
• Scales sources and diversity of educational material
• Increases academic freedom and choice
• Makes better use of existing resources
• Saves students, parents, government money
• Creates international presence and awareness
• Increases access
• Transforms teachers, students, public into active creators,
reviewers, & producers of knowledge
• Ensures research results can be verified and reproduced
• Generates business and pedagogic innovations

59. Openness in Qatar University TEL Initiative

60. Paul Stacey
Creative Commons
web site: http://creativecommons.org
e-mail: pstacey@creativecommons.org
blog: http://edtechfrontier.com
presentation slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Paul_Stacey
https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons
http://creativecommons.org/weblog