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equirements on that money. the Chancellor's office policy says if you take discretionary grant money or contract money through the Chancellor's office that is hundred 16 million or so a year so you are not talking about a small amount of money. Whatever you build is licensed under attribution license so other ideas about putting the requirement to share right at the point of funding is a powerful idea and this is not a new idea but a relatively new idea when talking about openness and sharing. To make this point let me show two models this is the talk about educational resources and this is what this slide looks like an academic research investments and have a similar model and what happens today is governments or foundations and other one something done and went when something or some kind of service and they will put out a worked in. We, as education providers, a colleges and universities and other entities respond to those and we produce those resources and peer-reviewed processing quality control in and everything that goes into making sure they are good resources and typically those grants only go to the guarantee so they are built by the institution and often times is held by the guarantee or held by the entity giving the grant or sometimes showing. The grantee that got the money to build a new curriculum or academic curriculum they are under no obligation to produce with anyone else so if you look in the lower right corner you see the contents are typically used by the grantee institution and public does not know about the institution is under no requirement to share they don't advertise they have it or it is available and they may not want to share. The public is granted little or no reuse with no legal use and it is free access or open access to the resource. That result is for public resources. If you put the Chancellor's office office in the cycle , what they used to do before the policy if they put out RSP's for educational resources to be built and the copyright stayed with the Chancellor's office office so the grantee did not get copyrights and I will talk more about this later. It was the Chancellor's office and the one community college and CA that had access to those resources and no other California committee college could use as. That is model a. The new model and this is where the Chancellor's office has decided to go is to optimize the system and the public investment and they are they good citizens that they are making with one very minor change. All they have done to this model is to change the very first upper left point so now Chancellor's office are issuing RSVPs and they by a license on anything produced with discretionary grants or contracts and resources will still be produced and grants will be made and there will be peer reviews to ensure quality and usefulness and now the resources are licensed and there are attribution license that are our most permissive license we offer and that is a good requirement is to get credit and provide a citation and back to who built the resource. The difference is now the content can be used beyond the grant so you can imagine and you may have solved this there was a 17 or 18 million grant grant from the Chancellor's office to foothill and other colleges to build two new academic programs and work on an online all my money. That is under this new if other community colleges chose to use them they could take those and this is a good thing. Even though they may be humble and was all part of the grant they can still take all of the resources and of the license and use them. From the perspective of the Chancellor's' office that is a good thing because in the old model humble would not have had access and now they do as does College of It is also good if you are a tax paper payor if you are of the California community college to have access to high-quality resources that were produced with California state funds because you are a taxpayer and you want your community college to benefit as well. You end up with maximizing the use of public funds and the public knows about the resources being out in the open and our advertising and the public were all other community colleges and anyone else has for reuse rights to those maximum public investment everybody shares. When talking about open Publicly funded resources should be openly licensed and the public should have access to what the public pays for or from a policymaker the stewards of the public Chancellor's office office have a responsibility to maximize the impact of the taxpayer investment or a grant and the committee helping one committee college that is a better return on investment and meets the goals of the Chancellor's' office and California. We have people from around the US and other states can also take these community college and has added benefits. Whitey California choose that? It is not cost them anything to share with Alabama or anyone else and secondly California will not lose community college students to the community colleges in Alabama. That will not happen and California committee college are already over and rolled. It is not a competitive disadvantage, but what California is really hoping is Alabama and Arkansas and Maine and New York will look at this policy and think it is a good idea and their system offices for committee colleges will adopt similar policies so in the future California's community colleges can take works from New York, Alabama etc. and repurpose those materials when it makes sense to do so. Open policies have a tendency to spread because they are precedents and other policymakers see them and think they're good ideas and implement their own policies. This is part of what happened with California so so Washington's they can be Washington state in the college has an identical policy almost that has been on their books four or five years and California knew about NIH policy and Department of Labor and other policies and said this is a good idea we will follow suit. What about creative nonprofit organization and we are headquartered in Mountain View California and we are a global organization and our job is to making it easy and legal to share on the web. Also off of the web but most are sharing digital resources all over the Internet because it is so easy to do so. We are a legal and robust way to grant copyright permissions including educational resources without giving up your copyright. Going back to the Chancellor's office, they have always told the grantees and continues to tell them they work for higher and they don't hold the copyright. copyright and the Chancellor's office is now saying we will keep the copyright at the Chancellor's office and we will put a a CC by license on everything with the funds. This has I will let the other speakers talk about that. Creative Commons has six different license including and we have two public in the main tool one for the mark works and to give up the copyright and put the work in the public domain and that is was CC zero is an this is a fleet of license and the Chancellor's office they chosen to go with the by license and you can see is one of the most open license and what we mean is you are giving other users in the world has many degrees of freedom as you can and putting very few restrictions on the. What is happening with open policies around the colleagues will tell you one of the international governmental organizations once something to is suggested to the world about open educational resources across many areas of OER and the last one on the list is encourage the open licensing of educational materials produce with public funds. They are directly addressing the issue of open policy and in fact, fact, they are on a global to are working with ministers of countries for openers to ask those ministers to follow California's lead. They want them to say from now on ministry of education in Indonesia and other out discretionary grants to educators and other entities creative Commons licenses as a funding requirement. Another example is US Department of Labor and there are many community colleges involved with this grant called is a 2 billion grant for the colleges are building next-generation academic programs to meet workforce needs and these are programs in technology and advanced manufacturing and allied health and why do I bring this up? Department of Labor said if you want this money you will put a creative Commons attribution on everything you build as a funding requirement and again almost identical to the Chancellor office's office. for the open consortium around that would be great. For those interested in the services that creative Commons and our on that. If you would drop in the lane for the open policy network this is a new global network we're spitting up and to give Una and her team they are part of this and the idea is open policy opportunities are sprouting all over the world. Not only in California but we see them in Brazil, Poland, Indonesia Poland, Indonesia, Canada and they are popping up all over the place. Governments are starting to licenses as a funding requirement on publicly funding resources and so we are starting a new entity called open policy network and creative Commons are helping organize and it is tens of open organizations that share the same resources should be open and license and as governments at the national level system levels like Chancellor office want to learn more about this and know the arguments for and exists and implementation of policy writing this will be there to serve their needs. I flashed an e-mail to Barbara before we started this say now that this policy is passed creative Commons and the open policy network stand ready educate the people who run the grants to provide webinars they may want to know how to properly use this. Let me stop there and this is my information if you are interested this is the best way to follow me on Twitter and I am at cgreen and as I learn about great new things doing in the world and Back to you Una. Thank you and great to hear about some of those other Cray the open education direction. All right. Next up affairs department at the Chancellor's office. Hi everyone and cable thank you as he summed up what I needed to say so I will point out my Twitter that I seldom and I find something really interesting and this will. I wanted to talk about how we got the CC by license going through the Chancellor office office and what it means. several points and I will go through those a little. We know about the CC by license and for those who is. We need to educate our staff on the creative attribution license and we did and we started out with a license and we have this here. Who requires a now? When cable and I first discussed the policy at California community college Chancellor's office we discussed that many of the grantees from the system are already receiving, some of them are receiving the tax grant so I had done a webinar with the Chancellor's office providing information for those colleges who are grantees or wanting to become grantees and we looked at the requirements there and they require creative attribution license on the is a public policy requiring those attributions and these are the large federal organizations that do. Why should we require it public's pain for the grants and the grants are not the Chancellor's office and staff is putting in the money for the private foundation is putting in the money and these are tax payors you are stained their taxes and the money is allocated for different organizations that are public institutions. The Chancellor's office or public institution funded by taxpayers. Once the public pays for the materials it is to have them pay for it again or not even knowing they exist. If we produce materials and I will give you an the slide for those who are from California they may know about the basic skills that the Chancellor's office and the RP group and administrators went together to compile 170 and it is meant to be a resource and the Chancellor's office has on the website and this is a resource of practices and basic skills and education from around the state and with the local colleges. I was noticing that I am monitoring the basic skills initiative funding and for those out-of-state this is funding going to the colleges to improve success rates of students and developmental add courses and programs. I am noticing as I'm reading the reports that colleges are reinventing the wheel over and over and don't know what is being done at other colleges so we put together this resource creative Commons and CC by license so if I am at my DeAnza and I know that model or some other people have fabulous models going on I don't have to wait to hear. I can look on the resource and take this and I have the information and I went to make sure that was publicly available. What the by license and and cable dig over this. The creator maintains the copyright and this depends upon the grand. At the Chancellor's do have slides on this the copyright is not necessarily the creator. The copyright is owned by Chancellor's office. When you have a license you keep your copyright and you have the ability to share with others , where as you can share it and people don't need to call you up and ask do I have permission. Many people say why should I share what I will be doing and I worked hard on this. Remember what we're talking about is publicly funded materials. If I worked very hard on something I received a grant for I was not doing this on my own time without getting paid I received a grant for the. What we added onto the Chancellor's office and this is passed by the Board board of governors was in the legaleze with the guarantees they received was a set of articles and part what is included on the contract and grant is a condition that all materials will have the CC by license on a. I went to explain one thing and why it is webinar workshop with the Chancellor's office is it is not a matter of having the license but in order to make it so other people can find materials and the coding needs to go into this. That way when I know someone asked a question about how do you find other items that have a grant in common and you could go do will pop up as well. According to the contracts that are funded by the Chancellor's office office, right work for higher meaning the Chancellor's office and and copyright. Most people , and lets you are signing the contract may not realize that. As a faculty member at my college I working on a grant and I don't see the legal materials or the fine print. If you were to be the one signing the grant you would see article to number 18 includes all grants is work for hire and Chancellor office office and the Now before that happens the Chancellor's office with a district and they do the work and the Chancellor's office has the copyright. The college or faculty are paid out of the grant funds and they do not have legal rights and very often if it was for something to be produced for the campus there was the understanding it would be run on their campus and a big example is the California basic skills initiative where the development piece is run by the college granted before and we passed the policy and in Chancellor office announced does the the material. However the purpose of this grant was to provide professional development around the shared material with everyone around the state and the country to be used. After passing the license Chancellor's office still still under copyright, but now the people who do the work and everyone else will have legal access to the content being produced. For example if I produce produce a workbook or that the E resource and that was after we passed the else could have legal rights to it. Some people say wait a minute I don't really like that away my staff and keep in mind your being whoever is getting the grant is being compensated to begin with and other people have a legal right and other taxpayers have a right to use these materials without having to write for permission. Personally I think this is a big win and I don't see this as taking away any of the freedoms and I see it as I wording freedoms because ni district it is winning a the work other districts can use the material to build or replicate and what they need to do is attributions back to delivered at the work. For example, if XYZ college at the and went two and three when it use the work they would say this is a CC by license and one to three and the copyright. This is a big went to share. A common question that comes in many colleges, including the one that I work for have a contract for the faculty member they are developing the property lines the content developed and people said I they have this policy and my contract says if I do work I get to keep my copyright and keep the intellectual property. I went to point out the difference and this policy is referring to the grants coming from the Chancellor's office and they are competitively this is not coming out of the general if your college has a contract with faculty that says they keep the intellectual property they develop that would that is developed in the general work and if they receive a grant from Chancellor's office the copyright does go back to the Chancellor's office and the and void and it doesn't keep intellectual property. Now they can use this and commercialize a. That is a common question about what if somebody else commercialize is I do? I can tell you a personally I am co-author of a if somebody else commercializes? The book is always free and open up a web to be used through connections for use through and another college you can download it as a PDF yes somebody else can do print on demand and yes they will make money , but that does not mean you have to pay for it. Then you are bookstore would make money or decide you want to make the and that cap one in silver and you can contract out for the jeweler would make money. The bottom line is there are resources on the web seed see you don't have to purchase this. I will not turn this over to cap. Thank you Barbara. Excellent. of the California Trinity College. Thank you and I am looking forward to little bit of information about the faculty's perspective. Thank you to everybody please hard to understand. They will be interested in the with a grant material was faculty are willing to share when they realize these are going to the grants. Faculty consider policy changes they seek other organizations in the state and I look information about intellectual property rights and found some old documents there about their positions on intellectual property and if any of you know of any work regarding this. Hard to understand that would be great to cannot find anything on a AUP website there may be something for faculty to think about and encourage the representative connections that you may have their and you can take the issue a. Some of the work done around the California , but we could all issue and likewise, the academic colleges don't have a particular positions related to intellectual properties and how the faculty members owned by the grant holders. Again there is room for additional conversation through the faculty and the organization to work on policies and I would encourage all of you in the the policy banner up. What is the policy primarily there are great benefits down the line. What we are thinking about is on faculty and the work that is created under the direction of a grant. Barber mentioned some of the grants that they are working on and we have some giant grants that was just awarded. There is one of three who actually were working on this and we are anticipating more and the funding comes in having disability that they will be shared widely for others keep them as they are or add to the attribution will the capital we have in the state and I think that is always of interest to the faculty as a whole whether discipline specific intellectual Senate and we want to continue this positive FX about the creators. If you look at the faculty creative benefits and faculty borrower benefits you see how faculty on both sides of the Isles can benefit. Barbara talked about the same issues and it helps if you are talking to faculty to have this side-by-side comparison. Whether they are on the front end or the borrowing in faculty needs to be recognized with how they are well as the benefits from the work of that. Student benefits again, my colleagues on the phone have also discussed what those are and once those materials are and intellectual capital we have available to help students with their education we are to see all sorts of benefits in terms saving the money for increasing the access to technology and technological resources they have and adding base in the discipline is certainly something all of us are after and that is why we teach in hopes that our students will contribute to the knowledge base with more discipline and the students are extremely gifted and they have wonderful ideas we have not conquered it. How do we add to that knowledge base in a way that continues to help students and faculty. I share from our turn it back over to Una. Thank you Beth and we were inspired by a few of your quotes. About expanding knowledge base and that is why people get into education and this policy really supports that at a fundamental level. This slide his happy holidays and the webinars will be back in January and we're so pleased to have all of you join morning or this afternoon and we will move on to questions. If you are on the phone you can speak questions if you are on a mic you click on the top the chat window. Go ahead. We had a question earlier who is at open was asking about federated searches for CC by resources and I wonder if Paul or cable could speak to that. There are several discussion and go up to 15 simultaneously and the commons is a good one. Which you put up the link for the page off the open website . Paul Stacey who is creative Commons leads the work with the Department of Labor and they have built a great website and they will put the link in. We have gone around and and categorize the big will ask you what you are looking for whether textbooks, courses, audio etc. and anything to make it easier to narrow and scope what it is you are searching for because there are different sites out there to specialize in different aspects and, of course you can go to Google advanced and you can filter by CC by license and search for textbook and tell Google to feed you back the resources. Thank you cable that is excellent information and we have a question from accountability for ensuring instructional materials created and question. Barbara D1 that that? Sure. I would love to. I would say that the because of the CC by license is no different than the accountability that would does not add or take away from the excess ability and I know one of the biggest challenges is educating from in California we have the training unit and I know when I am working on my own material and so on I high-tech training unit and in it is there. the Chancellor's office office already requires compliance although the by license has nothing to do and in general I would say how I am publishing my book University his publishing a. When they take it from the files my co-authors gave them they work with their whole system of part of the grant that were received to do the materials were accessible according. I will let cable finish the explanation. Barbara is absolutely right and CC by or not the Chancellor's office requires resources produced and the Chancellor's office office funds are accessible to the guidelines and you are compliant with federal law and are meeting the needs of students. It is separate from their requirements and if something has a creative Commons the CC by license there is an added benefit to accessibility and this is why. Let's say that the foothill just got its they will build these academic transfer degrees and they will do their very best to make sure all the content in the degree programs are accessible. They will pull out the stops and they have accessibility experts. They will miss something and I guarantee they will miss something. There are experts around the world to know more about accessibility and foothill has experts and it is a fact. When foothill puts a law and they put it out to the world and say here is the best we could very best we can do on accessibility and coursework and we think we have it done there will be something that is not as accessible as it could be an because there is a by license somebody else out there , the cast them out of Harvard or the team out of Toronto content and say you missed information about people who are colorblind or you are using colors to convey not something to do for someone who is blind. You forgot your tags on your images or whatever. that content is openly licensed the other entities can take it modify it and make it more accessible and feedback to California. If something is all right's reserved and copyright that opportunity does not exist. Aside from accessibility my experience has Susan's and my textbook is out there with the by license people have been very willing to come up and say either I found a typo which which often happens during a print book putting it online or to say I will develop these other materials going along with the book and that is an added bonus to the policy with nothing to do with Section 508. talking about experts around the world is we have the same thing with the open textbook and we found professors at set I developed this annual me to donate that to the field because you donated to her but. All of that is helping to increase student learning. Thank you Barbara and cable. That was excellent. Are there other questions? This is Don. Can you hear comment earlier in their intellectual capital in the state and in general that is an important point and I wanted to just not be overlooked but I wanted to say I would like to sort of chair on because I believe all of these efforts have the ability with critical they are perking something like that or is mentioned people collaborating on a single work and I think that would improve the educational content for our students who is our goal. That is a very important thing and I want to thank you for bringing that forward. Thank you for repeating that Doug and I think we all agree with that strongly. We are still waiting for some more questions. Well we are waiting for this questions to come in death, Barbara and cable do you have any closing comments you would like to make? Only I am very happy to have joined you today and I always learn something myself when I participate even as a said thank you for helping to educate me more about what you are doing and what your goals are and how this is enhancing what we do for students. Barbara? I would echo what is the set and I a lot by presenting as well with cable and Beth and I think we need to keep in mind that we are on a mission and that is to help educate our international workforce so that the students can run or afford their education and we can improve it. When I started with this my initial starting working with educational resources and having the textbook was because I wanted to save money for the students. We think it is close to one half million on statistics in the past six or seven years. What has happened is as a result of having textbooks open I have gained a lot as a professional and participating in the practice around OER and I have learned people have and the book has become much better going through the various saints and people say it would be better if this. Why didn't we think of that or university Millis bank of 1000 questions so what share it and other people say we can have the foundation in the black videos. These go to make the learning experience better for the students as well as for faculty members. Thank you Barbara and we are glad sure on a Any final comments? Final comments. I would suggest that those of you in other states might take inspiration from this open policy and have similar conversations with your if you would like support in crafting those arguments and drafting open policies and having someone come in and sit down with the leaders of your system and explain why this is a good idea you can certainly call on us a creative Commons to support she won you on that and provide that kind of strategic and implementation and support. Barbara and I mentioned we will be providing ongoing support in California so it is not an open policy on a piece of paper , but supported. Thank you Una and CCC confer for assisting us today. Thank you all for coming our three wonderful presenters and you can see the contact information on the last page will close our recording for now. See you next year.