This document provides information about Creative Commons licensing requirements for Department of Labor Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grantees. It discusses the CC BY license requirement, what Creative Commons is and how it works, defines Open Educational Resources, and addresses how the CC BY license and OER can be used and applied in TAACCCT grant work. It also provides resources and answers frequently asked questions about finding, attributing, and developing OER under a CC BY license.
Presentation I gave to U.S. Department of Labor Region 5 TAACCCT grantees (Rounds 2 & 3) on their Technical Assistance convening on 9 July, 2014. Applicable to all TAACCCT grantees.
Creative Commons and OER Big Picture for TAACCCTPaul_Stacey
Creative Commons and Open Education Resources (OER): The Big Picture and Opportunity for TAACCCT Grantees presented at DOL's National TAACCCT Rounds 2 & 3 Convening Washington D.C., 3-November-2014
Adding the CC BY license to your materials (TAACCCT)Jane Park
TAACCCT On! break-out session for all rounds of the U.S. Department of Labor's TAACCCT grant program.
Step by step instructions on how to add the CC BY license notice to your grant-funded materials. In addition to howto’s and pointing to best practice resources, Jane will present examples of round 1 grantee websites and curriculum that have already added the license notice. Note: this session covers marking specific objects with the CC BY license so that the license will be carried with the object across platforms; please attend the MERLOT repository sessions for how the CC BY license will be displayed within the repository.
CC overview and discussion of CC uses in design and culture at Opodz:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-commons-tips-for-design-and-culture-creators-to-discover-build-on-and-share-their-work-tickets-12024295993
Slides from the session at the 2019 CC Global Summit in Lisbon, Portugal: https://sched.co/MhKv
CC Search is out of beta and provides access to 300 million images across 19 content providers, with more in the pipeline. The CC Search team will present the current state of CC Search, including a new vision and strategy for 2019, front end features, and how everything works under the hood, both technically and legally, including a new CC Catalog API that provides access to the catalog.
In the second half of the session, we will host a Q&A and discussion on the ways we might internationalize CC Search, either via code, a push API, translations, or integration of image collections from different regions. We’ll also discuss new applications that could be built on top of the catalog itself that go beyond Search.
Finally, we’ll also preview what’s coming next in the roadmap, and how anyone may get involved via the CC developer community and/or usability testing.
Presentation I gave to U.S. Department of Labor Region 5 TAACCCT grantees (Rounds 2 & 3) on their Technical Assistance convening on 9 July, 2014. Applicable to all TAACCCT grantees.
Creative Commons and OER Big Picture for TAACCCTPaul_Stacey
Creative Commons and Open Education Resources (OER): The Big Picture and Opportunity for TAACCCT Grantees presented at DOL's National TAACCCT Rounds 2 & 3 Convening Washington D.C., 3-November-2014
Adding the CC BY license to your materials (TAACCCT)Jane Park
TAACCCT On! break-out session for all rounds of the U.S. Department of Labor's TAACCCT grant program.
Step by step instructions on how to add the CC BY license notice to your grant-funded materials. In addition to howto’s and pointing to best practice resources, Jane will present examples of round 1 grantee websites and curriculum that have already added the license notice. Note: this session covers marking specific objects with the CC BY license so that the license will be carried with the object across platforms; please attend the MERLOT repository sessions for how the CC BY license will be displayed within the repository.
CC overview and discussion of CC uses in design and culture at Opodz:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-commons-tips-for-design-and-culture-creators-to-discover-build-on-and-share-their-work-tickets-12024295993
Slides from the session at the 2019 CC Global Summit in Lisbon, Portugal: https://sched.co/MhKv
CC Search is out of beta and provides access to 300 million images across 19 content providers, with more in the pipeline. The CC Search team will present the current state of CC Search, including a new vision and strategy for 2019, front end features, and how everything works under the hood, both technically and legally, including a new CC Catalog API that provides access to the catalog.
In the second half of the session, we will host a Q&A and discussion on the ways we might internationalize CC Search, either via code, a push API, translations, or integration of image collections from different regions. We’ll also discuss new applications that could be built on top of the catalog itself that go beyond Search.
Finally, we’ll also preview what’s coming next in the roadmap, and how anyone may get involved via the CC developer community and/or usability testing.
http://www.ilsharedlearning.org
#IOER
Learn about Creative Commons Licenses, what they are, and how Illinois Open Educational Resources (IOER) uses them.
State of CC Usability and User Research (GS 2019)Jane Park
Slides from the session at the 2019 CC Global Summit in Lisbon, Portugal: https://sched.co/MiWZ
In 2018, CC kicked off an exciting initiative called CC usability. I will present findings from six months of user research, including the high-level goals and human-centered design process we undertook, and how we arrived at 9 key insights. I will also present some of the prototypes we developed, and how the research transformed our approach to the CC Search product. Lastly, I’ll preview what’s ahead in 2019 and gather feedback on ways to more effectively engage the global community in this work.
Increasing content reuse and user engagement on Open edXJane Park
Here's a talk I gave at the 2016 Open edX conference. Link to session description here: https://2016openedxconference.sched.org/event/61Nc/increasing-content-reuse-and-user-engagement-across-open-edx
Invited talk to Simon Fraser University on "Open Source Maturity and Suitability" aka how to choose the 'right' open source project for you. Presented May 2005
Copyright & Creative Commons: Publishing with Open LicensesMeredith Jacob
In this web presentation for the Library Publishing Coalition, we will cover OER, Creative Commons, and copyright basics, as well as discussing considerations for publishing openly licensed materials
Reflections On Personal Experiences In Using Wikislisbk
This talk was given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at UKOLN's "Exploiting the Potential Of Wikis" workshop held on 3 November 2006.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/wiki-workshop-2006/
General overview of Creative Commons licenses and Open Educational Resources (OER). I first gave this talk at NYU's Open Access Week and am referencing it for the Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) Orientation: p2pu.org/general/course-design-orientation.
Inner Source: Enterprise Lessons from the Open Source Community.Jim Jagielski
Slides from my Inner Sourcing talk from ApacheCon NA 2016. Inner Sourcing is using the methods and techniques of successful open source projects inside Enterprise IT.
Creative Commons and the CC BY license, Overview for 2013 OPEN Kick-offJane Park
Summary of session from OPEN Kickoff Conference for DOL TAACCCT Round 2 Grantees: Jane Park from Creative Commons will give a brief overview of Creative Commons, Creative Commons license use in education, and Creative Common's integral role in the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. She will explain the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) requirement for TAACCCT program grantees, how the CC BY license works, and the free support CC will offer to grantees around application of the license to grantee materials.
More info: http://open4us.org/events/
Topics:
-How is the role of messaging evolving within the healthcare community?
- What best practices should healthcare providers take to comply with regulations and plan for the future.
Creating and Managing Open Educational ResourcesPaul_Stacey
Presentation for TAACCCT grantees given at the TAACCCT On! grantee conference organized and hosted by the Kansas Round 1 TRAC-7 Consortium at Washburn Institute of Technology in Topeka September 18-19, 2013.
http://www.ilsharedlearning.org
#IOER
Learn about Creative Commons Licenses, what they are, and how Illinois Open Educational Resources (IOER) uses them.
State of CC Usability and User Research (GS 2019)Jane Park
Slides from the session at the 2019 CC Global Summit in Lisbon, Portugal: https://sched.co/MiWZ
In 2018, CC kicked off an exciting initiative called CC usability. I will present findings from six months of user research, including the high-level goals and human-centered design process we undertook, and how we arrived at 9 key insights. I will also present some of the prototypes we developed, and how the research transformed our approach to the CC Search product. Lastly, I’ll preview what’s ahead in 2019 and gather feedback on ways to more effectively engage the global community in this work.
Increasing content reuse and user engagement on Open edXJane Park
Here's a talk I gave at the 2016 Open edX conference. Link to session description here: https://2016openedxconference.sched.org/event/61Nc/increasing-content-reuse-and-user-engagement-across-open-edx
Invited talk to Simon Fraser University on "Open Source Maturity and Suitability" aka how to choose the 'right' open source project for you. Presented May 2005
Copyright & Creative Commons: Publishing with Open LicensesMeredith Jacob
In this web presentation for the Library Publishing Coalition, we will cover OER, Creative Commons, and copyright basics, as well as discussing considerations for publishing openly licensed materials
Reflections On Personal Experiences In Using Wikislisbk
This talk was given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at UKOLN's "Exploiting the Potential Of Wikis" workshop held on 3 November 2006.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/wiki-workshop-2006/
General overview of Creative Commons licenses and Open Educational Resources (OER). I first gave this talk at NYU's Open Access Week and am referencing it for the Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) Orientation: p2pu.org/general/course-design-orientation.
Inner Source: Enterprise Lessons from the Open Source Community.Jim Jagielski
Slides from my Inner Sourcing talk from ApacheCon NA 2016. Inner Sourcing is using the methods and techniques of successful open source projects inside Enterprise IT.
Creative Commons and the CC BY license, Overview for 2013 OPEN Kick-offJane Park
Summary of session from OPEN Kickoff Conference for DOL TAACCCT Round 2 Grantees: Jane Park from Creative Commons will give a brief overview of Creative Commons, Creative Commons license use in education, and Creative Common's integral role in the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. She will explain the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) requirement for TAACCCT program grantees, how the CC BY license works, and the free support CC will offer to grantees around application of the license to grantee materials.
More info: http://open4us.org/events/
Topics:
-How is the role of messaging evolving within the healthcare community?
- What best practices should healthcare providers take to comply with regulations and plan for the future.
Creating and Managing Open Educational ResourcesPaul_Stacey
Presentation for TAACCCT grantees given at the TAACCCT On! grantee conference organized and hosted by the Kansas Round 1 TRAC-7 Consortium at Washburn Institute of Technology in Topeka September 18-19, 2013.
Finding and Using Open Education Resources (OER): Implementing the Creative Commons CC BY License
presented at National TAACCCT Rounds 2 & 3 Convening
Washington D.C., 4-November-2014
CC BY license implementation deep dive (OPEN Kick-off)Jane Park
Session description from http://open4us.org/events/kick-off-conference-agenda/:
This session will dive into detail about the CC BY licensing requirement and what it takes to implement the license when hosting content on individual and external platforms. CC staff will go over the license metadata, examples of good implementation, and OER platforms where you can host resources under the CC BY license. We will also demonstrate tools and sites to find existing CC BY or otherwise licensed OER for your project. (SBCTC will share their stories, ie. around Open Course Library.)
COETC instructional design meeting on OER.
Open educational resources are changing the landscape of course content into a more transparent and open process that fosters fellowship across departments and educational institutions. In the spirit of the process, Colorado Community College System received a TAACCCT grant with the stipulation of publishing the courses to OER. CCCS has been successful in creating/sharing content between the 13 system colleges, 3 independent colleges and the world .
Webinar given on October 17, 2013 (1:00pmEDT / 10:00amPDT) to Roane State faculty and other TA program grantees as part of http://open4us.org.
I give a basic overview of Creative Commons, Creative Commons license use in education, and Creative Common’s integral role in the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. I explain the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) requirement for TAACCCT program grantees, how the CC BY license works, and the free support CC will offer to grantees around application of the license to grantee materials.
Link to recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/nativeplayback.jnlp?sid=2008170&psid=2013-10-17.0955.M.5E7B928FC11E94D844B1405E5A750C.vcr
Using the CC BY license, Workshop for 2013 OPEN Kick-offJane Park
Summary of session from OPEN Kickoff Conference for DOL TAACCCT Round 2 Grantees: This session will dive into detail about the CC BY licensing requirement and what it takes to apply the license to grantee materials. CC will go over the CC license chooser tool, examples of good license implementation, and content-sharing platforms where you can upload resources under the CC BY license. If enough time and interest, CC will also go over best practices for giving attribution to the creators of CC licensed works, especially as part of a larger resource, such as a textbook or course.
More info: http://open4us.org/events/
Why the Wellcome Trust supports the CC-BY licenceRobert Kiley
Presentation given by Robert Kiley at the Academic Publishing in Europe conference 2015, which explains why the Wellcome Trust supports use of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC-BY)
Open Licensing Requirements - Unraveling the MysteryPaul_Stacey
Presentation for Faculty and Staff Workshop on Development of Online Courses and Use of NANSLO Labs
June 13-14, 2013
Boulder, Colorado
for DOL TAACCCT round 2 grantee the Consortium for Healthcare Education Online (CHEO)
Presentation given at the Open Education 2013 conference in Park City Utah. Describes the economic challenges the US Department of Labor TAACCCT program is addressing, the large scale nature of the program ($2 billion over 4 years), the OER requirement (all new development CC BY), the partnerships and six core elements grantees must include in their work, and the support being provided to all grantees by Creative Commons and partners CAST, SBCTC, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Making Money is Important! Open Business Models as an Integrated Part of Crea...Haggen So
Creative Commons was found due to the failure to stop the Copyright Term Extension Act. This ever increasing control is imposed on us in the name of the benefits of the creators, with the latest incarnation as the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. By giving creators tools to receive revenue without retaining full copyright, we can demonstrate that open business models are viable alternatives other than control. The success of "Made with Creative Commons" strongly indicated that Open Business Models should be an integrated part of the Creative Commons Movement
https://ccglobalsummit2019lisbonportugal.sched.com/event/MmjR/opening-night-program
Similar to CC BY Overview for Round 3 DOL TAACCCT Grantees (Feb, 2014) (20)
Open Education + UN Sustainable Development GoalsCable Green
http://sched.co/AF02
The world’s nations have adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG4 is about “Education: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.” This session will explore how and why the global open education community can work with their national governments to mainstream Open Educational Resources (OER) in support of achieving SDG4.
K12 OER Collaborative for 2015 Open Education Week
Attribution to:
Jennifer Wolfe, The Learning Accelerator
Layla Bonnot, Council of Chief State School Officers
Karl Nelson, Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
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Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
2. A special thanks to our real lead!
Paul Stacey
Associate Director of Global Learning
Creative Commons
3. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Attribution: Slides are a remix from CC staff:
Jane Park, Paul Stacey, Tim Vollmer & Cable Green
4. • DOL's TAACCCT SGA CC BY requirement.
• What is CC BY?
• What is Creative Commons? What does it do? How does
it work?
• What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?
• How does the CC BY requirement and OER affect
TAACCCT development?
• Where to find existing OER to use in your courses.
• Factors to consider when authoring and developing your
own OER.
7. Economic Adjustment – Grant Program
• $2 billion grant funding over 4 years starting 2011
• Grants provided to community colleges
• Expand education and career training programs that can be
completed in two years or less
• Help TAA-eligible workers and other adults acquire skills,
degrees, and credentials needed for high-wage, high-skill
employment while also meeting the needs of employers
• Grant requires all newly developed materials be CC BY
Largest OER initiative in the world.
8. High Growth Industry Sectors
Bridging Basic Education
% GRANTEES DEVELOPING CURRICULA
IN SHARED FIELDS OF STUDY
Health
Manufacturing
Energy
Transportation
Information
Technology
DOL TAACCCT Round 1 Data Analysis by Paul Stacey 20-Feb-2013
TAACCCT program is uniquely creating OER in vocational industry sectors like manufacturing, health, energy, transportation and IT.
9. What is the CC BY requirement in
the TAACCCT grant?
10. SGA Requirements
•
In order to further the goal of career training and education and
encourage innovation in the development of new learning materials, 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”).
•
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.
11. SGA Requirements
•
Work that must be licensed under the CC BY includes both new content
created with the grant funds and modifications made to pre-existing,
grantee-owned content using grant funds.
•
Only work that is developed by the grantee with the grant funds is required to
be licensed under the CC BY license. Pre-existing copyrighted materials
licensed to, or purchased by the grantee from third parties, including
modifications of such materials, remain subject to the intellectual property
rights the grantee receives under the terms of the particular license or
purchase. In addition, works created by the grantee without grant funds do
not fall under the CC BY license requirement.
•
The Department will ensure that deliverables developed with these funds are
publicly available.
12. Purpose
“to ensure that materials developed with funds provided by these
grants result in work that can be freely reused and improved by
others.”
How does CC BY and OER affect TAACCCT work?
1. Share development costs of learning resources among institutions
2. Quality improvements through collaboration, visibility, creativity, and
critical thinking
3. Save time and effort through the reusing and remixing of resources
4. Pedagogical innovations
5. Lower costs to students
6. Open accessibility of resources to previously excluded groups
7. New partnerships and market opportunities
13. FAQ: What if we have a mix of our own
content plus proprietary licensed
materials?
18. What do we do?
We make sharing content easy,
legal, and scalable.
19. How do we do free
Most it?
Free copyright
licenses that
creators can
attach to their
works.
least free
Least free
20. CC licenses are unique because they are
expressed in three ways.
21. With the CC BY license, you retain your
copyright, while granting some uses of
your work… and others must give you
credit / attribution.
22. CC BY grants the public permission to
copy, distribute, perform, display, and
build upon your work, as long as they give
you credit for your work.
23. Here is an example of an educational textbook that is publicly available under the CC
BY license. If you click on the CC BY icon or the linked text, it will take you to..
26. <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.
28. 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.
OER are learning materials freely available
under a license that allows you to:
•Reuse
•Revise
•Remix
•Redistribute
43. 1.
2.
Publish on an existing platform that
allows CC licensing
Publish on your own site
44. Best practices for marking content
with CC licensing: Creators
• License
• machine readable
• use CC License Chooser
• Title
• Author
• URL / link
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking
52. FAQ: What if we incorporate other OER
into our materials? How do we give
them credit?
53.
54.
55. Marking Best Practices: Users
• License
• machine readable
• Title
• Author
• URL / link
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking
56. FAQ: Is there a deadline by which we
must apply the CC BY license? Do the
materials have to be in final version
before it is made available under CC BY?
57. FAQ: Can we change the license on the
materials after the project has ended?
58. FAQ: We are meeting resistance from
faculty and others around opening
materials. What steps can I take?
60. http://open4us.org
✓ Understand CC licenses
✓ Apply CC BY to your materials
✓ Find existing OER to use
✓ Attribute other CC-licensed works
✓ Open policy
✓ Universal Design for Learning and accessibility
✓ Data-driven learning designs
✓ Best practice in creating and managing OER
http://open4us.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Handout_OpenKickoff_Boyoung.doc
61. Free support and technical assistance to all DOL TAACCCT grantees to
help meet SGA requirements including support for:
• licensing TAACCCT grant work with a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
License
• incorporating principles of universal design
• ensuring deliverables are readily accessible to qualified individuals with
disabilities
• developing and implementing online and technology-enabled courses
• supporting accelerated learning in a flexible manner that allows students
to master concepts or course content more successfully in a shorter
period of time
• evaluation to ensure continuous improvement & data-based decision
making
On to the first question – what is the CC BY requirement in the TAACCCT grant?
Now I know what you’re thinking, what if you have a mix of your own content plus proprietary licensed materials?
Answer: Any material created with DOL funds must be made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license. If the course incorporates third-party proprietary material, simply removing that material prior to sharing the course, and acknowledging what was removed, is sufficient.
So that’s the CC BY license requirement in a nutshell. Before we move on to answering the next big question, does anyone have anything they’d like to address about the actual requirement?
…
Ok, so, the next big question is, “What is Creative Commons? What is CC BY?” “Clap” if you’ve heard of Creative Commons or CC BY before.
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. It’s time to think about how CC will evolve.
But we have one main thing we do across all of our work. And that is simply this:
We make sharing content easy, legal, and scalable. And though it might get a little more complicated than that when it comes to the details, that’s really all you need to know about the big picture. We make sharing content easy, legal, and scalable.
So how is that possible? How is CC less complicated than the existing system?
Very simply, we offer free copyright licenses that creators can attach to their works. And one of those licenses is the license in your grant requirement, the CC BY license.
The CC BY license is especially designed for the Internet age. I showed you the human-readable summary of the license in the last slide, but what about the license itself?
Here is an example of an educational textbook that is publicly available under the CC BY license. If you click on the CC BY icon or the linked text, it will take you to..
This license deed. This is a human readable summary of the rights the creator (also known as the licensor) has given to the public, and the conditions that the user of the work (also known as the licensee) must abide by in order to use the work. You can see that the deed clearly states that you are free to share and remix the work as long as you provide attribution.
Here is what our license chooser tool looks like. It is located at creativecommons dot org slash choose.
When you copy and paste the resulting html code into a web page, you get this icon and text. It’s that easy for anyone to add the CC license to their website.
But I’m sure at this point a lot of you may be thinking, what are open educational resources?
The OER movement prides itself on enabling these things when it comes to educational resources. And all of this is possible because of the CC licenses, especially the CC BY license which enables more permissions than our other licenses.
The OER movement is truly a global movement. All of these initiatives, and more, are using CC licenses to share their educational materials with the world. Including more popular initiatives you may have heard about...
And Flickr, the popular photo sharing community.
And let’s not forget whitehouse.gov. For those of you who don’t know, all third party materials on whitehouse.gov are defaulted under a CC BY license.
Well, you can use the CC search tool I showed you in the previous slide, or you can go to open4us.org where we give you a list of places to find OER.
So that’s Creative Commons and CC BY in a nutshell. Before we move on to the next question involving the actual marking and implementation of the CC BY license for grantee works, does anyone have questions about Creative Commons, the CC BY license, or OER?
Ok, so the next (and last major question) we’re going to answer today is “How should grantees properly mark their work with CC BY?”
Well there are essentially three options for grantees:
You can either publish your work on one of the many platforms that already enable CC licensing
Or you can publish your work on your own website with the CC license mark.
Or you can publish your work on a third party website that doesn’t allow CC licensing, which means that you will have to make sure the CC BY license is embedded within the work itself.
Option 1 is obviously the easier choice, but it’s really up to you since the SGA doesn’t specify.
You will see tutorials for the following video platforms. If you then choose Vimeo, a high quality video sharing platform, you’ll be taken to.
This tutorial, which takes you through the simple process of adding the CC license to your video.
In addition to platforms by media type, there is an OER specific platform that already defaults all of its materials under CC BY. That platform is Connexions. Anyone can create an account on Connexions by simply going to cnx.org and registering. Connexions allows users to split up their resources into modules. For example, several modules may make up a textbook chapter which collectively can than make up an entire textbook. Uploading works to Connexions means all of it will automatically be marked with CC BY.
So as you can see, it’s pretty simple should the grantee choose one of the CC enabled platforms. But what if the grantee wants to publish the work on their own site?
Creative Commons has developed a set of best practices for marking content with a CC license at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Creators. This page takes you through the process of marking the CC license on your own site, marking specific types of media, formats, and even marking offline works. You can take a look at this page to get familiar, and send all of the people you work with to it.
We’ll go over a visual example of good and bad marking here, so you can get a quick idea of how grantees should properly mark their work with a CC BY license.
This is an example of poor CC license marking. But why is it a poor example? Can anyone guess why?
Well, which license is the work under? It just states generically “Creative Commons license”, but there is more than one CC license and each one has different permissions and conditions.
Secondly, there is no link to the license, or visual indicator of the license. The generic CC logo only signifies Creative Commons, not one of its licenses.
Lastly, you can’t tell it from the slide, but the license mark is not machine-readable, especially since it’s not linked!
Here’s an example of pretty good marking. And I’m sure you recognize it from the slide I showed you before. Can anyone guess why this is an example of good marking?
Here’s an example of how the good folks over at The Open Course Library did it – their work is authored by Washington State Colleges. They have also noted the funders of the work, in their case – the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Washington State Legislature.
Here’s another FAQ we’ve received a lot. Who do we put as the author of our materials, eg. consortium, college, or faculty?
The answer: The author of the material is normally the person or group of individuals who created the material. However, your consortium or college may have a policy on who is listed as the author (eg: it could be the consortium, the college, or the individual). Any particular policy is not stipulated by the grant.
So we’ve learned how to publish on your own site with the CC BY license, but what if you want to publish your work on a third party platform that does NOT enable CC license marking? How can you add the CC BY license mark then?
Well, that’s covered at the Best practices for marking content with CC licenses page, too. But let me show you what that page says. It says to go to the license chooser and select the “Offline” option when choosing the type of License mark. This automatically generates text that the grantee can than copy and paste into the bottom or footer of any document. Once they have added the CC BY license mark directly to their works, they can upload the work to any platform and people who download the work will be made aware of the CC BY license.
This third option is not ideal, so we encourage you to encourage your grantees to go with option 1 or 2.
Another FAQ: What if we incorporate other OER into our materials? How do we give them credit?
Well here’s a simple example of how Openstax college did it. They culled together different OER and made it into a textbook called Introduction to Sociology.
At the end of the textbook they give credit for all the different pieces. You can see that it’s as simple as a title, link to the original content, name of the author, and a link to the CC license of the original content.
But you don’t have to remember all that, since we also cover this in depth in our Marking Best practices for users.
So one FAQ is, “Is there a deadline by which the we must apply the CC BY license? Do the materials have to be in final version before it is made available under CC BY?”
The answer to the first question: The U.S. DOL requires that materials be submitted at the end of the grant. Please consult your DOL federal program officer for details.
In answer to the second: No. However, we encourage grantees to share pre-final versions with the public or other consortiums working on similar content, though it is not required.
Another question we’ve received is whether grantees can change the license after the project has ended. The answer: CC licenses are not revocable. Once a work is published under a CC license, licensees may continue using the work according to the license terms for the duration of copyright protection. Notwithstanding, CC licenses do not prohibit licensors from ceasing distribution of their works at any time; however, you might check with the U.S. Department of Labor if the grant allows you to do so.
Many grantees have express some concern over getting their faculty and other third party stakeholders on board with the CC BY license requirement. However, The SGA explicitly stated that any materials created through these funds will be made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license and that was agreed to by the consortium when they accepted the money from the DOL. That is, the you can tell faculty that they have already agreed to openly license materials created with DOL grant funds.
When dealing with a faculty or staff member that is hesitant to openly licensing their materials it is best to describe the benefits that will come with the sharing; benefits such as wider recognition of their quality work, a larger audience that will benefit from their work, and an ability to publicly refer to their quality work for others to review. All of these benefits encourage more positive work to happen with the faculty member and will potentially aid in their chances of receiving future funding.
Lastly, I can’t possibly remember everything from this webinar. Where can I get some answers in the future when I need them?
First, visit our website. Our FAQ has grown pretty comprehensive at this point and will probably answer your question.