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.

1. Large Scale OER A TAACCCT Case Study
Except where otherwise noted these materials
are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY)

2. Global Economy
•Foreign trade
•Offshore outsourcing
•Imports
Positives
•lower prices
•higher efficiency
•more jobs
•quality
Economic
Adjustments
Required
Negatives
•displaced workers
•unemployment
•lower wages
•low & obsolescent skills
•personal & family hardship

3. 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.

4. CC BY Requirements – specific language
•
All successful applicants must allow broad access for others to use and
enhance project products and offerings, including authorizing for-profit
derivative uses of the courses and associated learning materials by
licensing newly developed materials produced with grant funds with a
Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
•
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.
•
The purpose of the CCBY licensing requirement is to ensure that
materials developed with funds provided by these grants result in Work
that can be freely reused and improved by others.

5. CC BY Requirements – specific language
•
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.
•
Requirements for open file formats, Open Source Software

6. Partnerships
Labour market demand - high
growth industry sectors
Employers & Industry
Design & delivery of employer
sponsored work-based training
models
Local workforce investment
board
Public Workforce System
Community Colleges
(Consortia – in state &
interstate)
Job centers, adult education
agencies, career and technical
education agencies
Six Core Elements
1. Evidence Based
Design
•use evidence to
design program
strategies
•base program
design on a level of
evidence
•use data for
continuous
improvement of
programs
2. Stacked &
Latticed
Credentials
•post-secondary
credentials that have
labor market value
•certificates,
certifications,
diplomas, and
degrees
•competency-based
educational
programs
3. Transferability &
Articulation
•career pathways
that transfer and
articulate
•within and across
state lines & within
consortia
•bridge from noncredit to credit
•build on previously
funded courses &
credentials
4. Online & TechEnabled Learning
•hybrid and blended
learning strategies
•open enrollment,
modularize content,
accelerate course
delivery, interactive
simulations, gaming,
digital tutors,
synchronous &
asynchronous, …
•OER & UDL
5. Strategic
Alignment
•outreach to
community employers and
industry, public
workforce system,
non-profit
organizations,
philanthropies …
•leverage supports &
do not duplicate
existing programs
6. Align with Previously-Funded TAACCCT Projects

7. 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.

8. Employers & Industry
Comprehensive
Community Colleges
Public Workforce System
http://www.open4us.org
Platform
Co-Development
OPEN
accessibility-1200 by questo sonio CC BY-NC

9. OPEN Co-Development Grantees
http://www.nationalstem.org
More TAACCCT grantees welcome to join & use.

10. http://open4us.org/

12. TAACCCT
Economic
Adjustments
Negatives
Positives
•lower prices
•higher efficiency
•more jobs
•quality
Positives
•employed workers
•higher skills
•higher wages
•thriving growth
industries
Global Economy
Global OER

13. Q and A yellow by Libby Levi CC BY-SA
Comprehensive
Platform
Co-Development
Paul Stacey
Cable Green
Mark Jenkins
Open Ed Panel
More info at:
http://www.open4us.org
Norman Bier