For the Midewestern Higher Education Commission (MHEC) Policy Summit 2013, Omaha Nebraska. An HTML (more editable/remixable) version is available here: http://bit..ly/mhec-oer

1. CREATIVE COMMONS
MHEC Policy Summit, Nov 2013
"OER, OPEN POLICY, AND MOOCS"
Billy Meinke / Creative Commons
@billymeinke
This presentation licensed CC BY
link: bit.ly/mhec-oer

2. TODAY
OER & Creative Commons
Open Policy
MOOCs

3. A QUESTION TO PONDER
What if everything were OER?
Forest service person - 1939 by Cocino National Forest / CC BY-SA

4. POTENTIAL OF OPEN POLICY
Extend the reach of public investments
Lower costs for students
Inspire new technologies and pedagogies

5. DEFINITION OF OER
(Open Educational Resources)
"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."
-Hewlett definition

6. THE REMIX
not just access, it's about repurposing, too

7. CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables
the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free
legal tools.
creativecommons.org/about

8. CREATORS HAVE A CHOICE
commercial use | derivative works | downstream copyright
Some rights can be reserved, but sharing is made easy.
(and you always get attribution)

9. CC IN USE
...and more each day.

10. EXPRESSION
legal code + human readable deed+ metadata
creativecommons.org/licenses

11. What does an open policy look like?

12. A closed model.
How can we do better?

13. An open model.

14. TAACCCT
(Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training)
"To ensure that Federal investment of
these funds has as broad an impact as
possible and to encourage innovation in
the development of new learning
materials."
U.S. Dept of Labor Grants - $2 billion over 4 years
Health, Manufacturing, IT +more
All courseware licensed CC BY

15. CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Open licensing (CC BY) on all educational resources created
with public funds from all Chancellor's Office grants
creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/39457

16. DURBIN OPEN TEXTBOOK BILL
Affordable College Textbook Act (2013)
Sen. Durbin and Sen. Franken
Opensourceway / CC BY-SA
Grant program to fund pilots, revise, report on student savings
creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/40598

17. OER POLICY REGISTRY
oerpolicies.org

18. What do OERs look like?

19. OPENSTAX COLLEGE
(Rice University)
Free | Openly (CC) licensed | Peer reviewed
Print on demand at low cost, has saved students $2.3+ million
openstaxcollege.org

20. SBCTC OPEN COURSE LIBRARY
81 high-enrollment courses, saved students $5.4+ million
opencourselibrary.org

21. FIND OER
open4us.org/find-oer

22. What do MOOCs have to do with it?

23. MOOCS
cMOOC
Connectivism, open web
culture of remixing, DS106-style
communities of learners
the web is the platform
xMOOC
access only, walled gardens
scaled in size
promise of personalized learning

24. MOOC Poster by mathplourde / CC BY

25. COURSERA | EDX | UDACITY
Massive Open Online Course?
Under lock and key by Janet Ramsden / CC BY

26. THINGS WE KNOW
Access to knowledge is a human right.
The cost of copying digital works is almost zero.
The cost of transmitting digital works is almost zero.
Let's focus on things beyond controlling content.