Update: OPEN Support Wave 1: TAACCCT Grantees
May 06, 2015
Update: OPEN SupportWave 1: TAACCCT
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Trade Adjustment Assistance Community
College And Career Training Grants
“…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”).”
“OPEN” Consortia will Support ALL DOL TAACCCT Grantees
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A simple, standardizedway to grant
copyright permissions to your
creative work.
What does TAACCCT SGA say?
“TAACCCT will support institutions that are committed to using data to continuously assess the effectiveness of their strategies in order to improve their program… and build evidence about effective practice..”
Strengthen Online and Technology-Enabled Learning
Strategy for Educational Improvement
The “Killer App” Feedback Loops for Continuous Improvement
OLI Supported Development:
• Apply learning science research and scientific method to OER development, implementation and evaluation.
• Develop OER collaboratively: Teams of TAACCCT grantee SMEs with OLI learning scientists, human computer interaction experts & software engineers.
• Use rich data gathered from student interactions to drive multiple feedback loops for continuous improvement.
Universal Design for Learning
What does TAACCCT SGA say?
“All online and technology-enabled courses developed under this SGA must incorporate the principles of universal design in order to ensure that they are readily accessible to qualified individuals with disabilities in full compliance with the Americans with Disability Act and Sections 504 and 508 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.”
Community and Technical Colleges
• Producers (grantees) and consumers
• We’ll all need adoption, professional development plans — adoption will not happen without planning and leadership.
• Opportunity to tie adoption to “performance based funding policies”
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Wave 1 Launched
DOL Kick-off TBA
OPEN kick-off TBA
Wave 2 input?
Wave 2 SGA TBA
Each “Wave” lasts 3 years
32 grants | ~$500 million | some grants TBA
Wave 1
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Building a common metadata vocabulary
for educational resources.
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LRMI/Properties
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House Appropriations Committee draft FY2012 Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill
SEC. 124. None of the funds made available by this Act for the Department of Labor may be used to develop new courses, modules, learning materials, or projects in carrying out education or career job training grant programs unless the Secretary of Labor certifies, after a comprehensive market-based analysis, that such courses, modules, learning materials, or projects are not otherwise available for purchase or licensing in the marketplace or under development for students who require them to participate in such education or career job training grant programs.
http://appropriations.house.gov/UploadedFiles/FY_2012_Final_LHHSE.pdf
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• We should commend the US Department of Labor for this landmark (CC BY) requirement!– request this be a requirement in all publicly funded
government grants… in all countries.
• Publicly funded resources should be open educational resources.
• Why? Come hear Cable’s Thursday (8:30am) Keynote– “The Obviousness of Open Policy”
creativecommons.org/taa-grant-program
doleta.gov/TAACCCT
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