The webinar discussed sustainability strategies for open educational resources (OER). It began with an overview of Creative Commons licensing and the 5R permissions for OER - Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute. It then explored three views of OER sustainability: Historical, focusing on early models; Contemporary, taking institutional and technical perspectives; and Business, involving developing open business models and generating revenue. The webinar concluded by soliciting participant feedback to improve OER sustainability approaches.

1. Sustainability Strategies For OER
A webinar in partnership with Athabasca University
9-March-2015
Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons
Except where otherwise noted these materials
are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY)

2. creativecommons.org

3. We make sharing
content easy, legal, and
scalable.
What do we do?

4. 5Rs: The Powerful Rights of OER
• Make, own, and control your own copy of
the contentRetain
• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse
• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the
contentRevise
• Combine the original or revised content with
other OER to create something newRemix
• Share your copies of the original content,
revisions, or remixes with othersRedistribute

5. most free
least free
Not OER
OER

6. Sustainability
Sustainable Plate by Socially Responsible Agriculture Project CC BY-NC-ND
Sustainable text by michael pecirno CC BY-ND

7. Are the current ways we provide
education sustainable?
a) Yes
b) No

8. Are OER:
a) External free content we get from
others?
b) A new internal teaching and
learning practice?
c) Neither?
d) Both?

9. Three distinctly different views:
1. Historical
2. Contemporary
3. Business
OER Sustainability

10. 1. Stephen Downes, Models for Sustainable Open
Educational Resources, 2006
http://www.downes.ca/post/33401
2. David Wiley, On the Sustainability of Open
Educational Resource Initiatives in Higher
Education, 2007
http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/38645447.pdf
Historical

11. Contemporary – vers. 1

12. Contemporary – vers. 2

13. Contemporary – vers. 2

14. Business

18. 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.

20. Business - Call for Participation
1. Join us in designing, developing, and iterating a set of
interactive Creative Commons open business model tools
that anyone can use to design an open business model.
2. Use these open business model tools yourself to generate
your own open business model(s).
3. Share the results of your participation including the open
business models you generate.
4. Provide feedback and recommendations for improving the
Creative Commons open business model tools & process.
5. Partner directly with Creative Commons on developing an
open business model for your specific initiative.
6. Participate in a Creative Commons workshop on
generating open business models.
7. Contribute to open business models report.

21. Blog post:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/45022
Participation Activities Doc:
http://bit.ly/1FlO3HX
Community:
http://bit.ly/1BfOHpH
Business

22. Which of the three views of
sustainability most interest
you?
a) Historical
b) Contemporary
c) Business

23. Paul Stacey
Creative Commons
web site: http://creativecommons.org
e-mail: pstacey@creativecommons.org
blog: http://edtechfrontier.com
presentation slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Paul_Stacey
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