www.softchalk.com
www.softchalkconnect.com
Steven Saltzberg
Communications Director
SoftChalk
www.collegeopentextbooks.ning.com
At 1,000 members!!!
Mitchell Levy
Marketing Chair,
College Open Textbooks
CEO and Author,
Happy About
Paul Stacey
Director, BCcampus
Cable Green
Director of Global Learning,
Creative Commons
James Glapa-Grossklag
Dean, Educational Technology,
Learning Resources, and
Distance Learning
College of the Canyons
1) How do OER projects and
programs get started?
Foundation Funded OER (e.g. Hewlett, Mellon, Gates)
http://cnx.org
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk
http://ocw.mit.edu
Publicly Funded OER
http://opdf.pbworks.com
http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english
http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/resources.cfm
http://www.jorum.ac.uk
Publicly Funded OER Strategic Goals
• Partnerships
• Increase Access & Credentials
• Sharing & Reuse
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Accelerate Progress for Low-Skilled & Other Workers
Improve Retention and Achievement Rates
Build Programs That Meet Industry Needs
Strengthen Online and Technology-Enabled Learning
• Promote sharing & reuse of learning resources
• Provide reputational benefit to UK HE through promotion of
high quality learning resources worldwide
“…as a condition of the receipt of a Trade
Adjustment Assistance Community College and
Career Training Grant (“Grant”), the Grantee will
be required to license to the public (not including
the Federal Government) all work created with the
support of the grant (“Work”) under a Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 License (“License”).”
Institutional Support
OER fits with institutional goals and mission
• Promote excellence in teaching and
learning.
• Expand open access to higher education.
Gain buy-in across the institution
• Faculty
• IT
• Campus Store
2) How are OER projects
sustained?
Common Attributes of OER
• Free
• Open License (e.g., Creative Commons)
• Access & use is explicitly expressed upfront – not dependent on
copyright clearance, payment of fees, proprietary owner
permission
• Easily & quickly adapted
• Customization & enhancements don't require large
investments
• Errors, improvements, & feature requests are openly
shared & managed
• Development, distribution & use is community/consortia
based
• Sustainability relies on sharing - resources, development,
hosting & support
• Users are developers
Maintaining Publicly Funded OER
• Annual fund 8 years running
$9 million total 2003-2010
• Operational funds
• Repository
• Reuse share-alike enhancements – working with int’l partners NANSLO
• Work with Electronic Library Network
• $2 billion for Fiscal Years (FY) 2011 – 2014 ($500 million annually)
• No permanent funding - applicants must ensure effective innovations are
sustained after the grant period ends
• Creative Commons, Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative (OLI), CAST
(Universal Design for Learning), and the Washington State Board for
Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC)
Maintaining Publicly Funded OER
Expanded OER project with public funding
We gratefully acknowledge
the support of a U.S.
Department of Education
FIPSE (Fund for Improvement
of Post Secondary Education)
Special Focus grant
Develop Partnerships and Collaborations
Cable Green reframes “sustainability.”
3) Where are these funding
resources?
http://solr.bccampus.ca
http://www.jorum.ac.uk
TAACCT
• No central place… yet… DOL working on it
4) Where are the threats to
OER?
House Appropriations Committee draft FY2012
Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill
SEC. 124. None of the funds made available by this Act
for the Department of Labor may be used to develop
new courses, modules, learning materials, or projects in
carrying out education or career job training grant
programs unless the Secretary of Labor certifies,
after a comprehensive market-based analysis, that
such courses, modules, learning materials, or projects
are not otherwise available for purchase or licensing
in the marketplace or under development for
students who require them to participate in such
education or career job training grant programs.
http://appropriations.house.gov/UploadedFiles/FY_2012_Final_LHHSE.pdf
CC BY NC SA http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrew_wertheimer/3677806847
• Publicly funded resources should be
open educational resources.
Paul, anyone want to add
• We should collectively advocate this be a
requirement in all publicly funded
government grants… in all countries.
5) Where does OER go from
here?
Paul Stacey
Cable Green
James Glapa-Grossklag
BCcampus
Creative Commons
College of the Canyons
Steve Saltzberg
Mitchell Levy
SoftChalk
College Open Textbooks
Paul Stacey
Director
BCcampus
555 Seymour Street, Suite 200
Vancouver, BC
V6B 3H6
web site: http://www.bccampus.ca
e-mail: pstacey@bccampus.ca
blog: http://edtechfrontier.com
James Glapa-Grossklag
Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and
Distance Learning
College of the Canyons
Santa Clarita, CA
james.glapa-grossklag@canyons.edu
661.362.3632
COC OER Repository
Cable Green
Director of Global Learning
Creative Commons
creativecommons.org
cable@creativecommons.org
twitter: @cgreen
blog.oer.sbctc.edu
Mitchell Levy/College Open Textbooks
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