This collection of resources helps explain the services available to TAACCCT grantees from OPEN in relation to meeting requirements for deliverables. Other support material is also listed below, including guides for best practices when marking content, OER management, and for universal design for learning and accessibility.
Jump to resources from each OPEN Partner:
Creative Commons (CC)
Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
Open Learning Initiative (OLI)
Washington State Board (SBCTC)
Creative Commons
Video: Understanding Creative Commons Attribution
This video explains the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license requirement for U.S. DOL TAACCCT program grantees. Video produced by Intelligent Television, Inc and licensed to the public under CC BY.
Support Resources
Slideshow presentation: “CC Content Marking for TAACCCT Grantee Deliverables”
CC License Marking guide (wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking)
CC License Chooser (delivers HTML + metadata for open licenses)
Don’t know much about Creative Commons or licensing and want to find out more? Get Creative Commons Savvy with this School of Open challenge in half an hour: https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/
For more information about Creative Commons, see creativecommons.org
CAST
Video: CAST & support for learning design and accessibility
For more information about CAST, see cast.org
Support Resources
- National Center on Universal Design for Learning
- National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials
OLI
Video: OLI and support for learning design and accessibility
For more information about OLI, see oli.cmu.edu
Grantees participating in Platform+ include:
- Missouri Healthcare Workforce Innovation Networks (MoHealthWINs)
- Texas National Information, Security, and Geospatial Technology Consortium (NISGTC)
- South Dakota Green Energy Production Consortium
- Colorado Online Energy Training Consortium
- Kansas Technical Retraining to Achieve Credentials (TRAC-7)
- The National Stem Consortium (NSC)
Free and Open Courses
STEM Readiness
OPEN has worked closely with the National STEM Consortium to develop a three-unit, 45 hour course in STEM Readiness, designed to provide a refresher in core skills necessary for STEM careers. The course is available for use by independent learners or to support more formal instruction, including online, hybrid and flipped classroom approaches. Units in mathematics, communication and professionalism are currently available and have been used by over 500 NSC students and thousands of learners outside the consortium. Data from these interactions is being used to plan for continued iterative improvement to the courses. Visit the OLI website to preview and use the course.
Healthcare IT
This course offers an overview of healthcare, health information technology, and health information management systems, focusing on the role and responsibilities of entry-level health IT specialists in each phase of the health information management systems lifecycle. The curriculum is aligned to the new Certified Associate in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CAHIMS) certification, designed for students who have previous experience in IT or healthcare as a pathway into health IT careers. This course is a collaborative effort of TAACCCT grantees, in particular Bellevue Colleges and MoHealthWINs. We are looking for faculty/content experts who can participate in the design of and write the content for learning activities and assessments that support students to achieve key learning outcomes and overcome common misconceptions. The faculty/content experts do not need to participate in the design of the entire course but rather can choose one or more module(s) in which they have expertise. Please contact us if you are getting involved in use or authoring.
SBCTC
Support Resources
- Best Practices in Creating and Managing OER (.doc)
- Open Course Library Content Development (.pdf)
- Open Policy Resources (.pdf)
Free Online Training from SBCTC
WA State Board for Community and Technical colleges officially invites all TACCCTT grantees to our “How to use Open Educational Resources” online training course in January 2014. The purpose of this course is to provide information and experience in using open educational resources (OER) in your teaching practice. Concepts of OER and open licenses will be discussed, and the course will also provide practice in locating and sharing open educational resources.
This is a 2-week online, asynchronous course and participants are expected to spend 10 hours to complete the course. This is a fully facilitated training that will produce an official certificate to the participants upon successful completion.
Upon completion of this course, the participants will be able to:
- Describe the meaning of open educational resources.
- Differentiate the concepts of open licensing, public domain, and all rights reserved copyrights.
- Identify resources that are openly licensed or in public domain.
- Distinguish the different types of Creative Commons licenses.
- Find the open educational resources, and properly attribute their authors.
- Mark their work with Creative Commons licenses.
To register for the training, please simply email the instructor (Boyoung Chae at bchae@sbctc.edu). We will manually add you to the Canvas training shell and you will receive the invitation that will prompt you to create a Canvas account (if you don’t have one already).
For more scheduling information about free online training for TAACCCT grantees from SBCTC, see http://www.waol.org/info/training/instTrainingRegV2.aspx.
Research
As part of a research fellowship with the OER Research Hub (OERRH) at the Open University, Billy Meinke (Creative Commons) will be delivering surveys and conducting interviews with select TAACCCT grantees, exploring knowledge and perceptions of open copyright licensing, open educational resources (OER), and collaborative learning resource production. For more information, contact billy [dot] meinke [at] creativecommons [dot] org.