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Large Scale OER -A TAACCCT Case Study

Global Economy

•Foreign trade•Offshore outsourcing•Imports

Positives•lower prices•higher efficiency•more jobs•quality

Negatives•displaced workers•unemployment•lower wages•low & obsolescent skills•personal & family hardship

EconomicAdjustments

Required

Economic Adjustment – Grant Program

• $2 billion grant funding over 4 years starting 2011• Grants provided to community colleges• Expand education and career training programs that can be

completed in two years or less • Help TAA-eligible workers and other adults acquire skills,

degrees, and credentials needed for high-wage, high-skill employment while also meeting the needs of employers

• Grant requires all newly developed materials be CC BY

Largest OER initiative in the world.

• All successful applicants must allow broad access for others to use and enhance project products and offerings, including authorizing for-profit derivative uses of the courses and associated learning materials by licensing newly developed materials produced with grant funds with a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).

• This license allows subsequent users to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the copyrighted work and requires such users to attribute the work in the manner specified by the Grantee.

• The purpose of the CCBY licensing requirement is to ensure that materials developed with funds provided by these grants result in Work that can be freely reused and improved by others.

CC BY Requirements – specific language

• Work that must be licensed under the CC BY includes both new content created with the grant funds and modifications made to pre-existing, grantee-owned content using grant funds.

• Only work that is developed by the grantee with the grant funds is required to be licensed under the CC BY license. Pre-existing copyrighted materials licensed to, or purchased by the grantee from third parties, including modifications of such materials, remain subject to the intellectual property rights the grantee receives under the terms of the particular license or purchase. In addition, works created by the grantee without grant funds do not fall under the CC BY license requirement.

• Requirements for open file formats, Open Source Software

CC BY Requirements – specific language

Labour market demand - high growth industry sectors

Employers & Industry

Design & delivery of employer sponsored work-based training

models

Community Colleges(Consortia – in state &

interstate)

1. Evidence Based Design

•use evidence to design program strategies•base program design on a level of evidence •use data for continuous improvement of programs

2. Stacked & Latticed

Credentials•post-secondary credentials that have labor market value•certificates, certifications, diplomas, and degrees•competency-based educational programs

3. Transferability & Articulation

•career pathways that transfer and articulate•within and across state lines & within consortia•bridge from non-credit to credit•build on previously funded courses & credentials

4. Online & Tech-Enabled Learning

•hybrid and blended learning strategies•open enrollment, modularize content, accelerate course delivery, interactive simulations, gaming, digital tutors, synchronous & asynchronous, …•OER & UDL

5. StrategicAlignment

•outreach to community - employers and industry, public workforce system, non-profit organizations, philanthropies …•leverage supports & do not duplicate existing programs

Six Core Elements

Local workforce investmentboard

Public Workforce System

Job centers, adult education agencies, career and technical

education agencies

Partnerships

6. Align with Previously-Funded TAACCCT Projects

High Growth Industry Sectors

Energy

Health

Manufacturing

Bridging -Basic Education

Transportation

InformationTechnology

DOL TAACCCT Round 1 Data Analysis by Paul Stacey 20-Feb-2013

% GRANTEES DEVELOPING CURRICULAIN SHARED FIELDS OF STUDY

TAACCCT program is uniquely creating OER in vocational industry sectors like - manufacturing, health, energy, transportation and IT.

Public Workforce SystemEmployers & Industry Community Colleges

Comprehensive

Platform

Co-Development

OPEN

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OPEN Co-Development Grantees

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Global Economy

Global OER

Positives•lower prices•higher efficiency•more jobs•quality

Positives•employed workers•higher skills•higher wages•thriving growthindustries

TAACCCTEconomic

Adjustments

Negatives

Comprehensive

Platform

Co-Development

Open Ed PanelMore info at:

http://www.open4us.org

Paul StaceyCable Green

Mark Jenkins Norman Bier

Q and A yellow by Libby Levi CC BY-SA