The document discusses the concept and benefits of Open Educational Resources (OER), which are materials freely available for use and repurposing, emphasizing the importance of open licensing for publicly funded resources. It mentions how openly licensed educational materials can significantly reduce costs for school districts while enhancing the quality and accessibility of education. Additionally, it highlights the role of policy-making entities in promoting open policies to improve educational outcomes and resource availability.

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3. A simple, standardized
way to grant copyright permissions
to your creative work.
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4. Step 2: Receive a License

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7. Multiplying the Impact of Online
Instruction
“The Obviousness of Open Policy”
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11. CC BY-ND “Obvious” by billaday - http://www.flickr.com/photos/billselak/483171512/in/photostre

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22. CC BY “Votes for Women Scroll being passed around the states”
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28. CC BY “Atlas, it!s time for your bath” Woodleywonderworks
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36. CC BY-SA “Airborne” by Berne Guerrero
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38. OER are “teaching, learning, and research
materials that reside in the public
domain or have been released under an
open license that permits their free use
and re-purposing by others.”

39. ! Reuse
! Revise
! Remix
! Redistribute

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42. “Public access to publicly
funded research.”

44. CC BY-SA “OLPC and FOSS@RIT--Education innovation the open source way” by opensourceway
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45. CC BY “books” by EvelynGiggles - http://www.flickr.com/photos/evelynishere/6626010553/

46. CC BY-NC “The NMC Aho Museum Flickr Tool-March 2009” by Robin M. Ashford
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52. “By developing this library of openly licensed
courseware and making it available to school districts
free of charge, the state and school districts will be
able to provide students with curricula and texts while
substantially reducing the expenses that districts
would otherwise incur in purchasing these materials. In
addition, this library of openly licensed courseware will
provide districts and students with a broader selection
of materials, and materials that are more up-to-date.”

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61. 500 million works

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68. ! Translations
! Accessibility
! Customization
! Evolution
! Affordability
! Innovation
! Discoverability

70. $500 million - Wave 2
($2 billion over four years)

71. Publicly funded resources
should be
openly licensed resources.

72. “Public access to publicly
funded research.”

73. http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=educ_figdp&lang=en

74. $60 trillion
x 5% =
$ 3 trillion

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76. Publicly funded resources
should be
openly licensed resources.

77. “Governments and education
systems all play a critical role in
setting policies that drive education
investments, and have an interest in
ensuring that public funding in
education make a meaningful, cost-
effective contribution to socio-
economic development.”

78. “Given this role, these policy-making
entities are ideally positioned to
encourage or mandate recipients of
public funding to produce educational
resources under an open license.”

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80. CC BY-NC-SA “freeway” by deswalsh - http://www.flickr.com/photos/coachdes/3148729801/in/photostream/

81. funded resources.
Public access to publicly
CC BY-SA “freeways” by lokate366
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82. CC BY “Creative Commons” by Giuli-O - http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuli-o/3421327165/in/photostream/

83. Publicly funded educational
resources are open educational
resources (OER): in the public
domain or openly licensed to allow
their free use and re-purposing by
others.

84. ! open policies are an efficient
use of tax dollars
!! open policies save students
money
!! open policies increase access
to education

85. ! Everyone wins
! Self-interest
! Social justice

86. Efficient use of public funds to
increase student success and access
to quality educational materials.

88. Creative Commons Knowledge & Culture
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