CC BY License Implementation Deep Dive / Finding existing OER for your

project

• CC BY license requirement• The Metadata• Publishing on external platforms• Marking on your website• Finding existing OER• The Open Course Library

Overview

1. TAACCCT Round One SGA2. Amendment Three3. Copyrighted materials

clarification

"All digital assets must be licensed for free, attributed public use and distribution (as described in Section IV.B.4).”

SGA

http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/applicantinfo.cfm

“…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”).”

Amendment Three, Section IV.B.4

http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/applicantinfo.cfm

“Only work that is developed by the grantee with grant funds is required to be licensed under the Creative Commons license. Pre-existing copyrighted materials licensed or purchased by the grantee are subject to the intellectual property rights the grantee receives under the terms of the particular license or purchase.”

Copyrighted materials clarification

http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/Announcements.cfm

CC BY license requirement• The Metadata

Overview

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Why CC BY?

Machine Readable Metadata

<span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><span rel="dc:type" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title">My Photo</span> by <a rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName" href="http://joi.ito.com/my_photo">Joi Ito</a> is licensed under a

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</a>.

<span rel="dc:source" href="http://fredbenenson.com/photo"/>Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at <a rel="cc:morePermissions" href="http://ozmo.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">OZMO</a>.</span>

</span>

<span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><span rel="dc:type" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title">My Photo</span> by <a rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName" href="http://joi.ito.com/my_photo">Joi Ito</a> is licensed under a

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</a>.

<span rel="dc:source" href="http://fredbenenson.com/photo"/>Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at <a rel="cc:morePermissions" href="http://ozmo.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">OZMO</a>.</span>

</span>

http://creativecommons.org/choose

<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.

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Search & Discovery

http://search.creativecommons.org

CC BY license requirement The Metadata• Publishing on external

platforms

Overview

• Images• Audio• Video• Text

Major communities by media type

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Publish

• Vimeo• YouTube• Internet Archive• Wikimedia Commons

Video platforms

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Publish/Video

OER-specific platform

http://cnx.org

CC BY license requirement The Metadata Publishing on external

platforms• Marking on your website

Overview

• Creator of CC-licensed content• User of CC-licensed content

Best practices for marking content with CC licensing

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking

• Marking on your site• Marking specific media• Marking specific formats• Marking third-party content• More…

Marking Best Practices: Creators

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Creators

Example of poor Marking

o Which license?o Link to license?o License icon?o Not machine-readable

Example of better Marking

Full URL (link) to CC BY license Visible notation of ‘CC BY’ CC BY license icon Machine-readable

Example of better Marking

CC BY license requirement The Metadata Publishing on external

platforms Marking on your website• Finding Existing OER

Overview

Search & Discovery

• PhET Interactive Simulations• Connexions, OpenStax College• Open High School of Utah• Curriki• Open Course Library• Saylor.org• OER Africa

CC BY licensed OER sites

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Case_Studies/United_States

Saylor.org Reuses Open Course Library Materials

• Khan Academy• MIT Open Courseware• Open Courseware Consortium• Flat World Knowledge• Peer 2 Peer University• MERLOT• OER Commons (referatory service)

Popular OER under other CC license

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Case_Studies/United_States

OER Matrices – 82 courses

Incorporating OER into your course collections

• Creator of CC-licensed content• User of CC-licensed content

Best practices for marking content with CC licensing

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking

• Marking on your site• Marking works offered under other CC licenses• Is your attribution good enough?• Marking specific media• More…

Marking Best Practices: Users

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Users

Example of poor Marking

o Confusing creator with license granting organization

o Which license?o Link to license?o License icon?o Not machine-readable

Example of better Marking

Title of work Title linked to original web

page Creator noted Specific license noted and

linked (CC BY) Machine-readable

CC BY license requirement The Metadata Publishing on external platforms Marking on your website Finding Existing OER• The Open Course Library

Overview

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SBCTC Open Policy

All digital software, educational resources and knowledge produced through competitive grants, offered through and/or managed by the SBCTC, will carry a Creative Commons Attribution License.

http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_Licensing_Policy.pdf

Open Course LibraryLesson’s Learned

1. Encourage open licensing where possible

2. Track permissions and specify CC licenses3. Don’t assume authors know about

copyright4. “Open” is an efficiency and an investment

Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds  CC BY-NC-SA

Open Course LibraryLesson’s Learned

1. Encourage open licensing where possible2. Track permissions and specify CC

licenses3. Don’t assume authors know about

copyright4. “Open” is an efficiency and an investment

Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds  CC BY-NC-SA

Open Course LibraryLesson’s Learned

1. Encourage open licensing where possible2. Track permissions and specify CC

licenses3. Don’t assume authors know about

copyright4. “Open” is an efficiency and an investment

Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds  CC BY-NC-SA

Open Course LibraryLesson’s Learned

1. Encourage open licensing where possible2. Track permissions and specify CC licenses3. Don’t assume authors know about

copyright4. “Open” is an efficiency and an investment

Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds  CC BY-NC-SA

“I can access it on the web so it's free to use, right?”

(Hint: wrong!)

Open Course LibraryLesson’s Learned

1. Encourage open licensing where possible2. Track permissions and specify CC licenses3. Don’t assume authors know about

copyright4. “Open” is an efficiency and an

investment

Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds  CC BY-NC-SA

Impact of OCL < 1yr. later

• 2011-12 est. textbook savings in WA: $1.26 million1

Savings in year 1 exceeds cost of OCL project

• Over 30,000 visits from 125 countries• Course materials used by colleges in 8 states• 11 courses adapted/improved by Saylor.org• Positive press: 80+ media mentions worldwide• 90% textbooks savings with no significant

difference in completion rates (w/ room to grow!)

Source: http://www.studentpirgs.org/resources/cost-analysis-open-course-library

Open Course Library

More info at: http://opencourselibrary.org

Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds  CC BY-NC-SA

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• What OPEN services need to be changed to better meet your needs? Next steps for:

– Grantee Projects– OPEN team

Discussion

• 3D visualization group• OER Matrix• Listserv (Google group)

– Contact list by subject• How do I credit the funder?

(U.S. Department of Labor)• http://open4us.org/resources

– Videos, FAQ• Next week: Google survey

Wrap-up

Thank you!

“Thank You – Danke” by Alice Popkorn / CC BY