Presentation given at Foothills College Tech Conference October 25, 2013.

1. Creative Commons and
Open Educational Resources:
Building the Future of
Education Together
with Paul Stacey
Associate Director of Global Learning
Creative Commons
Except where otherwise noted these materials
are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY)

2. What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the
sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
Develops, supports, & stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, & innovation.
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.
http://creativecommons.org/about

3. Creative Commons Global Network

4. 10 Years Ago Things Were Different …
10.creativecommons.org
Creative Commons was born!

5. Creative Commons Licenses
Attribution
Attribution - ShareAlike
Attribution - NoDerivs
Attribution - NonCommercial
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs
*CC0 (public domain dedication)

6. Legal and Technical
Legal Code, Human Readable Deed, Meta-Data
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

7. Creators Have Choice
Some rights reserved but sharing made easy and legal.

8. A Commons Flourishes
Examples of CC in use:
MIT OpenCourseware - 2000+ courses
Khan Academy - 3,000 videos
Wikipedia - 4 million+ articles
YouTube - 4 million+ videos
Flickr - 250 million photos
… and more each day.

9. 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 under
a license that allows you to:
•Reuse
•Revise
•Remix
•Redistribute

10. Open Policy
Public funds should result in a public good.
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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

11. TAACCCT
Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College & Career Training
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Funded by the US Department of Labor
$2 billion over 4 years
All courseware openly licensed (CC BY)
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/38818

12. Policy Complements Practice
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry

13. OpenStax College
(Rice University)
Free | Openly (CC) Licensed | Peer Reviewed
Print on demand at low cost.

14. Are MOOCs Really Open?
No.
Free ≠ Open

15. OER & Open Access
Open Access

16. 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 Stacey
Associate Director of Global Learning
Creative Commons
E-mail: pstacey@creativecommons.org

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