Sustainability Strategies For OER
A webinar in partnership with Athabasca University
9-March-2015
Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons
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are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY)
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
Sustainability
Sustainable Plate by Socially Responsible Agriculture Project CC BY-NC-ND
Sustainable text by michael pecirno CC BY-ND
Are OER:
a) External free content we get from
others?
b) A new internal teaching and
learning practice?
c) Neither?
d) Both?
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
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.
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.
Blog post:http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/45022
Participation Activities Doc:http://bit.ly/1FlO3HX
Community:http://bit.ly/1BfOHpH
Business
Which of the three views of
sustainability most interest
you?
a) Historical
b) Contemporary
c) Business
Paul Stacey
Creative Commons
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