This document summarizes a presentation about Creative Commons licensing and Open Educational Resources (OER) for recipients of TAACCCT grants from the Department of Labor. It explains that the grants require all materials created with the funds to be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license to ensure public access. This makes TAACCCT the largest OER initiative. It describes how CC BY and OER can increase impact, lower costs, and foster innovation. Recipients are instructed on how to mark works with CC BY and provided examples and resources to leverage OER in their work.

1. Creative Commons and Open Education Resources (OER):
The Big Picture and Opportunity for TAACCCT Grantees
National TAACCCT Rounds 2 & 3 Convening
Washington D.C., 3-November-2014
Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons
Hal Plotkin, Creative Commons USA
Except where otherwise noted these materials
are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY)
Jane helps put the finishing touches on the graphic viz by Giulia Forsythe CC BY

2. Share your TAACCCT story with Hal Plotkin.

3. 1. DOL TAACCCT CC BY requirement
2. Creative Commons and CC BY
3. Open Educational Resources
4. How does this affect my TAACCCT work?
5. How do I mark works with CC BY?
6. Examples
7. Big Picture
8. Help & Questions
Agenda

4. With $2 billion over 4 years, TAACCCT is
the largest OER* initiative in the world.
*thanks to CC BY license requirement

5. High Growth Industry Sectors
Energy
Health
Manufacturing
Bridging -
Basic Education
Transportation
Information
Technology
DOL TAACCCT Round 1 Data Analysis by Paul Stacey 20-Feb-2013
% GRANTEES DEVELOPING CURRICULA
IN SHARED FIELDS OF STUDY
TAACCCT program creates OER
in vocational industry sectors

6. 1. DOL TAACCCT CC BY requirement
2. Creative Commons and CC BY
3. Open Educational Resources
4. How does this affect my TAACCCT work?
5. How do I mark works with CC BY?
6. Examples
7. Big Picture
8. Help & Questions
Agenda

7. What is the CC BY requirement in
the TAACCCT grant?

8. “To ensure that the Federal investment of these
funds has as broad an impact as possible and to
encourage innovation in the development of new
learning materials, as a condition of the receipt of
a TAACCCT grant, the grantee will be required to
license to the public all work created with the
support of the grant under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 (CC BY) license.”

9. “The purpose of the CC BY licensing
requirement is to ensure that materials
developed with funds provided by these
grants result in Work that can be freely
reused and improved by others.”

10. Only work that is developed by the
grantee with the grant funds.
Applies to:

11. Pre-existing copyrighted materials
licensed to, or purchased by the grantee
from third parties, including modifications
of such materials.
Works created without grant funds.
Does not apply to:

12. “This license allows subsequent users to copy,
distribute, transmit and adapt the copyrighted
Work and requires such users to attribute the
Work in the manner specified by the grantee.
Notice of the license shall be affixed to the
Work. For general information on CC BY,
please visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.”

14. Why?

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

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

17. creativecommons.org

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

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

21. Step 1: Choose Conditions
Attribution
ShareAlike
NonCommercial
NoDerivatives

22. Best Practices for Attribution: (TASL)
 Title
 Author
 Source – Link to work
 License – Name + Link
House of Knowledge Variation1 by Adrien Sifre CC BY-NC-ND

23. Step 2: Receive a License

24. most free
least free
CC BY - Creative Commons
License Specified by DOL for
TAACCCT

26. Lawyer
Readable
Legal Code

27. Human
Readable
Deed

28. Machine
Readable
Metadata

30. 1. DOL TAACCCT CC BY requirement
2. Creative Commons and CC BY
3. Open Educational Resources
4. How does this affect my TAACCCT work?
5. How do I mark works with CC BY?
6. Examples
7. Big Picture
8. Help & Questions
Agenda

31. Open Educational Resources (OER)

32. “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.”

33. 5Rs: The Powerful Rights of OER
• Make, own, and control your own copy of
the contentRetain
• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse
• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the
contentRevise
• Combine the original or revised content with
other OER to create something newRemix
• Share your copies of the original content,
revisions, or remixes with othersRedistribute

34. With $2 billion over 4 years, TAACCCT is
the largest OER* initiative in the world.
*thanks to CC BY license requirement

35. Why did we do this?
U.S. DOL:

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

37. “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.”

38. “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.”

41. public access to
publicly funded
works
Bottom line:

42. 1. DOL TAACCCT CC BY requirement
2. Creative Commons and CC BY
3. Open Educational Resources
4. How does this affect my TAACCCT work?
5. How do I mark works with CC BY?
6. Examples
7. Big Picture
8. Help & Questions
Agenda

43. What does this mean
for me practically
speaking?
But..

44.  I can build on R1 TAACCCT OER.
 I save $ b/c I share development costs.
 I save time and effort.
 I can improve my resource with others.
Thanks to CC BY:

45.  Costs are lower for students.
 I am an example of open policy.
 New partnerships and market
opportunities  innovation
 Local, regional, international
Thanks to CC BY:

46. Full Potential Impact
1. Authoring new OER
– Attaching a CC BY license
– Examples
2. Use existing OER in your development
– Sourcing OER
– Reusing, revising, remixing OER
3. Sharing & distributing OER publicly
– Repositories for storage, curation, and distribution
4. Leveraging OER through open pedagogies
5. Promoting and marketing to students
6. Leveraging OER by establishing downstream local,
regional, national, and international partners

47. 1. DOL TAACCCT CC BY requirement
2. Creative Commons and CC BY
3. Open Educational Resources
4. How does this affect my TAACCCT work?
5. How do I mark works with CC BY?
6. Examples
7. Big Picture
8. Help & Questions
Agenda

48. Fulfilling the
requirement is
simple

49. “This license allows subsequent users to copy,
distribute, transmit and adapt the copyrighted
Work and requires such users to attribute the
Work in the manner specified by the grantee.
Notice of the license shall be affixed to the Work.
For general information on CC BY, please visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0.”

50. Licensing your work is easy. No
registration is required.
You simply add a notice that your work
is under CC BY.
Here’s how you do that 

51. creativecommons.org/choose
Go to:

52. http://creativecommons.org/choose

54. CC BY 3.0 or 4.0 are
okay
DOL says:

57. <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"><img
alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0"
src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br
/>This work is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License</a>.v
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Unported License.
________________________________________________________

58. You can edit the text for your specific
project.
Go back to:
http://creativecommons.org/choose

59. Optional fields

60. <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative
Commons License" style="border-width:0"
src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br /><span
xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" property="dct:title">Welding 101</span> by
<a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
href="https://www.northgatech.edu/" property="cc:attributionName"
rel="cc:attributionURL">North Georgia Technical College</a> is licensed under a
<a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License</a>.
Welding 101 by North Georgia Technical College is licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
________________________________________________________
_______

61. What if I want to add the notice to a
document?
Go back to:
http://creativecommons.org/choose

63. Paste where you usually put © info

65. Upload and Find TAACCCT OER
https://www.skillscommons.org/

66. 1. DOL TAACCCT CC BY requirement
2. Creative Commons and CC BY
3. Open Educational Resources
4. How does this affect my TAACCCT work?
5. How do I mark works with CC BY?
6. Examples
7. Big Picture
8. Help & Questions
Agenda

67. Big Picture
• Bring peer review process to educational material
• Higher quality
• Modify, localize, translate, and update – make it better
• Scale sources and diversity of educational material
• Increase academic freedom and choice
• Make better use of existing resources
• Save students, parents, government money
• Create international presence and awareness
• Increase access
• Generate business and pedagogic innovations

68. Big Picture – Where is this all going?

69. 1. DOL TAACCCT CC BY requirement
2. Creative Commons and CC BY
3. Open Educational Resources
4. How does this affect my TAACCCT work?
5. How do I mark works with CC BY?
6. Examples
7. Big Picture
8. Help & Questions
Agenda

70. 7
0
http://open4us.org
taa@creativecommons.org
FAQ Events Find OER Services

71. https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110344036906214848777

72. 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
http://bit.ly/commonsnews
https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons
http://creativecommons.org/weblog