creative commons and open educational resources: building the future of education together

with Paul StaceyAssociate Director of Global Learning

Creative Commons

Except where otherwise noted these materials are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY)

Creative Commons andOpen Educational Resources:

Building the Future of Education Together

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.

Develops, supports, & stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, & innovation.

What is Creative Commons?Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the

sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.

http://creativecommons.org/about

Creative Commons Global Network

10 Years Ago Things Were Different …

Creative Commons was born!

10.creativecommons.org

Creative Commons Licenses

Attribution

Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs

Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike

Attribution - NonCommercial

Attribution - NoDerivs

Attribution - ShareAlike

*CC0 (public domain dedication)

Legal and Technical

Legal Code, Human Readable Deed, Meta-Data

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Creators Have Choice

Some rights reserved but sharing made easy and legal.

A Commons Flourishes

Examples of CC in use:

MIT OpenCourseware - 2000+ coursesKhan Academy - 3,000 videosWikipedia - 4 million+ articlesYouTube - 4 million+ videosFlickr - 250 million photos

… and more each day.

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, …

Core Concept – 4R’s

OER are learning materials freely available undera license that allows you to:

•Reuse•Revise•Remix•Redistribute

• 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 publicly funded grant materials.

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/page/2

Open PolicyPublic funds should result in a public good.

• Funded by the US Department of Labor• $2 billion over 4 years• All courseware openly licensed (CC BY)

TAACCCTTrade Adjustment Assistance Community College & Career Training

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/38818

Policy Complements Practice

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry

Free | Openly (CC) Licensed | Peer Reviewed

Print on demand at low cost.

OpenStax College(Rice University)

Are MOOCs Really Open?

No.Free ≠ Open

Open Access

OER & Open Access

Summary

CC Licenses are the gold standard for open licensing.Help expand the range & enhance relevance of education.

We can share and build the future of education together.

Paul StaceyAssociate Director of Global Learning

Creative CommonsE-mail: pstacey@creativecommons.org

Q&A & Hands-On Exploration

Hands-On Exploration – Find OER!http://open4us.org/find-oer/