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Catherine M. Casserly, Ph.D., CEO Commonwealth of Learning, New Delhi, IndiaFebruary 22, 2013

Sharing Education for a New Era

Catherne M. Casserly, Ph.D., CEO

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CC is the law catching up with the way the internet actually works.But think about all the ways the internet has changed in the past ten years. Its time to think about how CC will evolve.3

CC licenses are unique because they are expressed in three ways.

CC licenses are especially designed for the digital age, as they are uniquely expressed in three ways.

100+ affiliates working in 70+ jurisdictions

CC licenses are also global. They have been ported to 55 jurisdictions, which means they have been translated and adapted to the language and laws of these jurisdictions. Note: porting is not necessary, but it does make it easier for a license to be interpreted in a court of law.

The CC Affiliate Network consists of 100+ affiliates working in over 70 jurisdictions to support and promote CC activities around the world. The teams have a wide range of responsibilities, including public outreach, community building, translating information and tools, fielding inquiries, conducting research, communicating with the public, maintaining resources for CC users, and in general, promoting sharing and our mission. These teams have a formal relationship with Creative Commons via an agreement between organizations, universities or individuals in the jurisdiction and CC HQ. Unaffiliated volunteers are also welcome to organize events and promote Creative Commons locally, regionally and globally. If you would like learn more or contribute in one of these jurisdictions, please click on the flag below or email affiliate-program[at]creativecommons.org. If you are looking for a flag that you do not see here, please check the Jurisdiction Database. The Affiliates page on the CC wiki contains more information, including regional activities and history of our work.

Over a half billion CC-licensed works

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(Use whatever numbers from this list you like.)

Half a billion CC-licensed objects, and those are just the ones we can count. There are actually many more.

Video: We just recently announced four million CC-licensed videos on YoutubeWikipedia: 19 million articles in 270 languagesWikimedia commons Just last week, announced 15 million open access resourcesIn Open Access repositories that we track, 23+ million articlesThat doesnt include all repositories, or every OA journal.The bottom line: each of these fields values from CC licensing, but theres a greater value in their ability to share with and borrow from each other.Interoperability: Compatible metadata standards, so users can find and sort data across different fields.8

-digital explosion, technological explosion-everyones a producer as well as consumer of content-the web allows teachers, students, self learners to share easily and cheaply-smart hacks make this legal (CC)-we need to empower teachers, students, self learners to leverage content to better education-enter OER-David Wiley talks about the 4 Rs of OER-freedom to Reuse, Redistribute, Revise, Remix

Video: Thrive with Open Educationhttp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0PWVkHlSGVbllzhYyMO07YkqO5y3MRx&feature=plcp

To understandWe must understand

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OER are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium thatreside in the public domain or have been released under an open licensethat permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

Open license is key.

Free as in free beer and free as in freedom12

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open educational resources

CC is what connects OER together. Anyone can use and mix resources from any of these.

Alan Levine

MOOCs are trendy right now.That trendiness presents a huge opportunity data of thousands of students experienceWe need to Capture that data and use it to improve and inform pedagogy

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Through the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and in full partnership with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), UNESCO hosted the 2012 World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress last summer to:

showcase the worlds best practices in OER policies, initiatives, and experts;release the 2012 Paris OER Declaration calling on Governments to support the development and use of OERs; andcelebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2002 UNESCO Forum that created the term OER.UNESCO member States unanimously approved the Paris OER Declaration .

This Declaration is the result of a yearlong process, led by UNESCO and the COL with regional and online meetings and final negotiations at the Congress. The Declaration recommends UNESCO member States:

a. Foster awareness and use of OER.b. Facilitate enabling environments for use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).

c. Reinforce the development of strategies and policies on OER.

d. Promote the understanding and use of open licensing frameworks.

e. Support capacity building for the sustainable development of quality learning materials.

f. Foster strategic alliances for OER.

g. Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts.

h. Encourage research on OER.

i. Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER.

j. Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public funds.

The Declaration will now be delivered to UNESCOs Director General. She will submit the Declaration to the UNESCO Executive Board on October, 2012. After the UNESCO Board approves the Declaration, it will go to the General Conference for final approval. While it is important to note a Declaration is a non-binding UNESCO instrument, a UNESCO declaration does set forth universal principles to which the community of States wished to attribute the greatest possible authority and to afford the broadest possible support.

Commonwealth of Learning: OER Reports

A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)

Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education

Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources: An Asian Perspective

Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice

A report on the Re-use and Adaptation of Open Educational Resources (OER): An Exploration of Technologies Available

Copyright and Open Educational Resources17

COL: Governments & Open Policy

One that highlights their reports on Governments and Open Policy - you can mention the "Open Policy Network" and talk about why open policy is a key lever.18

Open AccessOA Increasing at federal and university levelsResearch Councils UKEU support for Open AccessPotential reintroduction of FRPAA in U.S.10th Anniversary of Budapest OA InitiativeSupport new methods, data/text mining

OA = Public access to scientific and scholarly research that the public pays for

Research Councils UK has proposed a CC BY licensing policy; so in addition to free online access the policy would require that researchers apply CC BY open license to communicate reuse rights to downstream users

EU plans to make research funded through Horizon 2020 program open access (80 billion Euros)

Potential expansion of NIH public access policy to 11 other large U.S. federal agencies with big research budgets authors must deposit articles in publicly accessible repository within 12 months of publication

Budapest Open Access Initiative reinforced need for governments to support OA policy, recommends CC BY as best way to meet OA

New research methods like text/data mining are coming to the fore and researcher need free public access (and potentially reuse rights) to accomplish this

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Open Access Statistics

2653 CC licensed journals in Directory of Open Access Journals

162 institutional Open Access mandates

PLOS publishes ~50,000 CC BY open access articles per year

BioMed Central publishes ~100,000 CC BY open access articles per year

2653 CC licensed journals in DOAJ - http://www.doaj.org/?func=licensedJournals

162 institutional Open Access mandates - http://roarmap.eprints.org/

PLOS publishes ~50,000 CC BY open access articles per year

BioMed Central publishes ~100,000 CC BY open access articles per year21

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Open Policy NetworkEnsuring open access to publicly funded resources

In 2011-2012, Creative Commons (CC) and other open organizations were contacted by multiple institutions and governments seeking assistance to develop materials and strategies for open policies.

The need for open policy support was amplified at the CC 2011 Global Summit in Warsaw, Poland. CC Affiliates from 35 countries called for a central hub where open policies could be shared and discussed.

They were clear: without clearly defined support, open policies are significantly less likely to be introduced and adopted. In October 2012 Creative Commons continued this exploration by convening a meeting of open leaders to brainstorm possibilities and challenges in developing resources and services to increase open policies.

Across various sectors, including open educational resources, open access, open science, open government data, etc.

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Open Policy NetworkMap open policy space across open sectors;Identify open policy gaps and opportunities;Communicate social/ec value of open policy;Network those developing open policies with those with policy expertise; and,Curate case studies and open policy exemplars for others to use or adapt.

The mission of the Open Policy Network is to foster the creation, adoption and implementation of open policies and practices that advance the public good by supporting open policy advocates, organizations and policy makers, connecting open policy opportunities with assistance, and sharing open policy information.

Initial work products:Develop model open policies and billsDevelop open policy implementation kits with slides and talking pointsProvide as-needed consulting / mentoring / networkingFinding, curating and posting existing open policies / lawslink out to existing open policy sites (e.g., ROARMAP and OER Policy Registry)

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$2 billion over four years

In the past year, governments have been putting a lot of support into OER, both in the US and abroad.Growing international movement, and a growing pool of open resources available to anyone to reuse, adapt, and translate.

TAACCCT - $2 billion round of grants, requires all resources produced to be CC BY-licensed.National Digital School program in Poland CC BY licensed primary school curriculumBrazil OER policy requires federally funded resources to be open-licensedAnd most recently

Poland

CC-BY-licensed textbooks for 90 university courses

California and British Columbia government funding CC BY-licensed texts for a total of 90 postsecondary classes, just in the past two months

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Lots of winners and nocentral points of control.Brewster Kahlebit.ly/fma-bk

Heres our network. Here are the organizations and institutions we collaborate with. We dont insist on being the center.Quote from Brewster Kahle: Lots of winners and no central points of control.Hes talking about how the Internet works. No ones in charge of it.Thats also the way our community works.

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Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Catherine M. Casserly, Ph.D., CEO Commonwealth of Learning, New Delhi, IndiaFebruary 22, 2013

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