Open Policy Introduction at the Festival of Learning

1. Open Licensing Policy
Amanda Coolidge, Senior Manager Open Education at BCcampus
June 6, 2015
@acoolidge

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Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed
under a Creative Commons Attribution
License.
Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all
of this presentation with attribution.

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Slides:
https://goo.gl/0fWhSs
Documentation:
https://goo.gl/81RahO
Open Education Policy Guide:
https://goo.gl/KDn9uT

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Agenda
1. What is Open?
2. What is a policy?
3. What is an open policy?
4. How is it implemented?
5. Fears of Open
6. Introduction to the OER Policy Guide
7. Your turn

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Goals
Goal by Robin Green under CC BY 2.0
1. Understand the basics of
Open Policy
2. Be able to articulate
examples of open policies
3. Identify an open policy that
you can implement at your
Institution

6. What is Open?

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The 5 R’s of Open
“Open means anyone can freely
access, use, modify, and share
for any purpose (subject, at most,
to requirements that preserve
provenance and openness).”

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The 5 R’s of Open
• Make and own copiesRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
Adapted (color change) from Open Education: A “Simple” Introduction by David Wiley released under CC-BY license

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Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under a CC-BY 3.0 License
CC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license

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11. What is Policy?

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Policies are a course or principle of
action adopted or proposed by a
government, foundation, non-profit
institution, for-profit business, or
individual to solve a problem.
Solving Problems

13. What is an
Open Policy?

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Open policies are laws, rules and
courses of action that facilitate the
creation, use or improvement of openly
licensed content.
Solving Problems

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The adoption of open policies can maximize the
return on public investments and promote a
global commons of resources for innovative
reuse.
Publicly funded resources should be openly
licensed resources.
Principles

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policy is different than “norms”, “best
practice”, “common way of doing things”,
More on Policy

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policy requires parties to act in a particular
fashion if those groups wish to participate in
the community/program/initiative
More on Policy

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policy generally seen as means to working
towards overarching goals/strategy of the
organization
More on Policy

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Open licensing policies typically have two parts /
options:
(1) how will my institution / government openly
license what we (staff) create?
(2) how will my institution / government require
openly licenses on works we fund via grants,
contracts, and/or commission to be built?
Open Policy

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Vision
ALL publicly funded resources should be
openly licensed resources.

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Policy implements that Vision
US Department of Labor TAACCCT: “as a
condition of the receipt of a grant, the
grantee will be required to license to the
public all work created with the support of
the grant under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 (CC BY) license”

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Common Characteristics
1. Specific and address a need
2. Developed collaboratively with stakeholders
3. Make process public and transparent
4. Provide and allow for feedback
5. Evaluation and how do we evaluate (data
and stories)
6. How do we change if not working?
7. How will be policy be enforced?

23. Examples

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Funding Mandates
Adaptation – copyright with author(s)
The materials covered by this contract will be adaptations or enhancements of the original
resource, for which the copyright has been established by the original author and who licensed the
work for reuse using a Creative Commons (CC) license. All materials produced as adaptations
through this contract will be licensed with a Creative Commons (CC) license compatible with the
license of the original work. It is the intent of this contract, using grant funds from the Province of
British Columbia through the B.C. Open Textbook Project, that the resulting materials be widely
distributed as open educational resources (OER) with a CC license.
OR
New Creation – copyright with author(s)
The materials covered by this contract will be a newly created work, for which the copyright will be
held by the author or (in the case of a new book that is collaboratively produced by more than one
author( the copyright will be jointly owned by all contributing authors. In both cases, the resulting
content will be licensed for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. It is the
intent of this contract, using grant funds from the Province of British Columbia through the B.C.
Open Textbook Project, that the resulting materials be widely distributed as open educational
resources (OER) with a CC-BY license.

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World Health Organization
Ebola Crisis and Zika Emergency

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You Pay to Read Research You Fund?

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University of Edinburgh
http://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/openeducationalresourcespolicy.pdf

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Conversations- Why is this better?
Why is closed supporting the mission?
Publicly funded resources should be openly licensed
Public mission- use as a baseline
Efficiency argument- creating a more efficient working model
Stimulate more collaborations
Moral cases happening

29. Fears of Open
Activity

30. OER Policy
Guide

31. Your TURN

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Start with a set of principles
What is the overall strategy at the
Institution?
Look at the vision and mission - how
would open policy fit nicely into that
work- tie this into the existing
strategy