 Thanks a lot. Thanks for the introduction. I'm Tim Blommer from Creative Commons and Cable's back there was coming back up We're gonna do a little tag team on our presentation today We already heard a little bit about the JIT Department of Labor grant program This morning from Martha Cantor and Jim Shalton and others throughout the day So we're just gonna provide an update on the project work that Creative Commons and its partners will be providing to the successful with the winning grantees So a little bit of the acronyms of which we've probably all seen before the TAA CCCT means trade adjustment assistance community college and career training grant program I think they've been calling it TACT And our consortium of services which we're going to describe a little more detail later is called open open professionals education network Here's kind of an overview of what the things we're gonna kind of cover today And hopefully we'll have a little bit of time for Q&A before everyone piles out of the room I'll talk a little bit about the history of the program Cable will describe some of the services and the other groups that Creative Commons is working with Then I'll describe a little bit of the timeline that we have And the timeline going forward with the other waves of the program And we'll talk about one related project that Creative Commons is working on that ties into these services And then finally cable will end with some threats and some opportunities that we have with regard to this program and we've got to the innovative DOL grant program itself, so like I mentioned that the TAA CCC training grant program is Not grew out of the past program Which Hal Plotkin and others have talked about before probably at prior open-end conferences And in the US this was through the SAFRA legislation and SAFRA stands for Student Aid Fiscal Responsibility Act, which which was Discussed in 2009 which would provide $50 million a year over 10 years for the creation of open educational resources And there's a lot of back and forth on this bill eventually the SAFRA legislation got attached to the to the health care reform bill in the US and If anyone offended you followed that you knew that it was very kind of contentious back and forth and in the end the the $50 million over 10 years got stripped out of that that Program once the health care bill was passed, but it kind of re-grew Reincarnated through the Department of Labor Through this TA CCC grant program And it's with the Department of Labor in conjunction with the Department of Education The program would essentially provide two billion dollars over four years for the creation of high quality content at community colleges for those students and for work retraining programs and The real innovation came in the details of the program and I guess we're probably all kind of familiar with this by now The requirement that any new resources created with grant funds be licensed under the CC by license And we really haven't seen this at the federal government level in the US Excuse me much and especially not at this scale so one once creative come and saw that this Program was announced it was announced January 20th of this year We have we're really excited obviously like this is a huge opportunity We actually kind of like took a little bit of a look at the grant solicitation to see if CC could Apply for grant money because we realized that a lot of community colleges are gonna be looking for guidance about what this actually means What does it mean for me to apply creative comments licensing to our grant materials and with five hundred million dollars in the first round You know, we were like man. I wonder how many colleges that could be You could take a lot of love effort So we kind of paint the idea around some folks the Department of Labor and read the grass with its solicitation very closely We kind of realized that CC wasn't in the position to apply for any of that money to be able to provide assistance So we reached out to the Gates Foundation We all know we're doing a lot of great work in OER over the last few years See if they're interested in funding a sort of consortium to be able to provide this technical assistance To the grantees to really make sure that we we get this program, right? You know, I could provide a really good precedent kind of going forward So our our consortia the open consortia is going to provide assistance to all the Department of Labor grantees The leads are going to be creative commons cast Carnegie Mellon's open learning initiative and then finally the Washington State Board for community and technical colleges and cable's gonna Just talk a little bit about a little more in depth about the description of the services that we're going to be providing Thanks term. Hi everybody. How you doing today? So just to build on what Tim was saying when this when this grant came out and the CC by license was required on the grant Many of us in the open community said this is the precedent setting moment in open policy For at least the United States. It was a first not a first globally Other countries are way out in front of the US and working with open policy Netherlands being one But but this is a big deal in the US and to the extent there's two billion dollars of public money It was a big deal globally. And so as Tim said we Create comments and I was at the state board at the time Saw this not only as as proper public policy when public funds are used The the works that are produced with public funds should be either put directly into the public domain or they should have a very open License on them so that they can be used revised remix that are redistributed So to the extent that we want these grantees to be very successful and want them to have all the technical supports They need that's really where this this consortia came from So the what I'm gonna do is kind of walk through very briefly what each one of these partners is going to do At for for the different you know grantees. So creative commons Probably pretty obvious, right? There's a requirement to license with CC by so But that's that's as you know is slightly more complicated than just slapping the logo on a page, right? The licenses are machine-readable You can use the license user to put additional meta tag information in all of that gets put into machine-readable code and you Proper implementation licenses like you don't get taking that code and getting it into the web page of the digital objects So that they can be found on the web and while we all know that it's not that difficult If you don't know anything about open licensing or anything about CC That's that's a bit of a hurdle and to the extent that there's gonna be a lot of stuff built With a CC license on it, you know, we want to do everything we can to make sure that this this content is properly marked up so that that's one service for providing another service is Helping with OER search and discovery So I made some comments in an earlier session about It's good not to build everything from scratch But rather the proper starting point is to ask what have others done that I might be able to use and iterate on and Reuse other people's existing OER And so we'll be assisting the grantees with that task sort of help helping them know. Where are the Searches, but how do you search for open license? What does that look like to the extent that there are? many Grants that are similar in terms of the domains they're looking at so there are multiple health care grants There are multiple clean energy job grants that have been given We'll be doing some some extra work to help find resources for them Open tax books OERs that may be useful to them. So for example, Carnegie Mellon, you know has Biology and chemistry courses and those are pre-rex to every single one of the nursing programs that has been funded by the Department of Labor and it would seem silly at least to us that you would want to start from scratch building a brand new chemistry course When you could take there are lots of OER chemistry courses out there that you should know about that you should start We're providing other services as well, but I'll get to the wealth I guess real briefly CC is the the project made on this so we'll be running conferences around this If you're a DO grantee will be running a kickoff conference and a closing conference the kickoff conference to really walk them through All these services in great detail will be a multi-day conference We're going to bring everybody in the United States together So they can meet each other but also so that we can really articulate What the services that we're going to provide and then adjust our services to meet their needs So we'll be surveying them in advance and meeting with them at the Department of Labor kickoff Which is going to happen for us open learning initiative also you can probably guess they're going to be bringing their expertise in best practices in structural design in Collecting data on curriculum and using the the feedback loops that Carnegie Mellon Has been working on for multiple years Some of these things have been explicitly called out just like the CC by license was explicitly called out of the grant There's a section that talked about Yeah continuously assessing the effectiveness of the strategies in order to improve the program and build Evidence about effective practice so to the extent that this is really called out in the grant to have somebody like Carnegie Mellon With some expertise in thinking about how do you collect data on your students use of the coursework? And then how do you use that data to iteratively improve the course in future of it? Carnegie Mellon is also going to So that's their model and we all know their for feedback loops Carnegie Mellon is also going to Provide really three levels of service and so is cast and so let me take a moment just to be clear about this We are going to provide a level one service to all of the grantees and there are 32 plus and we're guessing another five or six so we're probably gonna 40 Grantees or so by the time so for all 40 grantees Everybody gets a set of services and then includes all the creative common services all the services the state board of the providing Which I'll get to in a minute and then a set of services from cast on accessibility and a set of sort of general Instructional design best practices from Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Mellon and cast are going to provide also level two and level three services To smaller groups of grantees so level two services for Carnegie Mellon is essentially if you'd like to use the Carnegie Mellon platform The tools the cognitive tutors all their back-end Artificial intelligence stuff they've got for your curriculum, but you want to build your own stuff That's kind of level two service. They provide support around that cast isn't there working deeper on Accessibility issues with folks and then level three is kind of the full Carnegie Mellon and cast treatment. I mean they're at your campus. They're working with your folks They've traveled to you their integral part of your team and it's I don't know if you know But Carnegie Mellon spends on average four or five hundred thousand dollars each course they develop It's a very intense process And so they're going to do that with a very small subset of the grantees probably Three four or five of the grantees and what will be what Carnegie Mellon cast and our project will be looking for as to who should those folks be We're looking for Collaborations across the project so to the extent that there might be say three nursing Programs that are funded that would be a natural place to say like what's not do three different nursing programs three different ways Is there a chance to build something with a bunch? With more resources with more sort of intense support that you can all leverage Can't cast as I mentioned this is a group out of Cambridge well known for their expertise and accessibility Again in the Department of Labor grant accessibility was explicitly called out As as a requirement and everything is produced and so cast will also be providing those three levels of service and To prepare For this project even for the grantees were named Cast has been working very closely with Carnegie Mellon open learning initiative to adjust the OLI platform To be much more accessible than it currently is and that's been a challenge in a problem with the OLI platform And I think they would freely admit that and cast has identified many things that could be better from accessibility standpoint And so they they their technicians have already been working together Cast of course has a set of best practices This is an example of what they will bring to all of the grantees as you know They're their documents their brochures their one pagers But also webinars to go with that and some light consulting for everybody and then if you're at level two or level three of The services you get much more hands-on You know face-to-face interaction with their teams State board and I know the county step up. She already left State board. This is where I was when we started writing the grant. So we said basically look the state board has done some things Around our open course library project, which is all about developing an entire general education curriculum and putting a CC by license on it We we encountered some barriers as you might imagine some struggles some challenges And we overcame those successfully in working with the legislature in working with presidents and trustees and faculty and faculty unions and student leadership and Provost and I mean we there are different conversations different challenges different solutions Barriers and all of those levels and the state board has struggled through that and been very successful over the past couple years And so there's a lot of best practices to share there that these grantees will also struggle with and so that's part of the reason the state boards there They're also there really to talk about adoption strategies And you know not mandates, but what sort of incentives and carrots can be put in place? How do you set the proper context so that people move from not invented here to yes I'm you know very eager to use somebody else's high quality materials And they've got a lot of experience that and then this last one. I think it's particularly interesting I don't know if this is true in universities around the world But in community colleges in the United States almost every community college system is adopting some kind of performance-based Funding policy, which essentially says if your outcomes if your student completion rates go up if your other key performance metrics That you've identified as being important go up that your base budget will benefit from that And if you if they go down your base budget will be negatively affected And this has become something that many not all that many community colleges engaged in this conversation in Washington State we engaged we connected this idea with adoption of High-quality OER that helped those performance metrics and some of those metrics include affordability for students And so there's an interesting nuanced conversation in the policy realm that the state board is uniquely Has lived that and wanted to share those More on the timeline cable alluded to it Wave 1 is launched as of September 26th. I believe the Department of Labor announced 32 grantees Here's where they are right now almost five hundred million dollars was expended that the grant awards range from two and a half million dollars up to 20 million dollars for a consortia application As you can see some of the states haven't been represented yet the department is working with them To submit an application if they happen to ready because it is written into the program that all states will receive at least two and a half million dollars Cable had mentioned the Department of Labor is actually holding off kickoff meeting for all the winning grantees for a wave one Where they're going to be explained the program to them and then our consortia the open project is having Conference as well. Both of those dates are a TVA right now Just because the announcement was was made just weeks ago It's kind of up in the air whether the Department of Labor is going to be accepting inputs on suggested changes Before wave two solicitation is released So we're gonna be kind of watching that they've already done the series of at least two web chats where the public can provide Comments and suggestions via that format that we obviously Contribute to that as well Wave to the solicitation for grant applications is also to TVA, but probably sometime this winter They want to push the money out the door before it goes away Each wave is going to be a bit lasting three years. So that's an important piece to to remember So, you know the completion of all four waves could be pushed out to what 2016 2017 I want to talk about one related project that we're working on that came about in the interim after the department Announced the deal of grants and that's the learning resource metadata initiative and this initiative is in collaboration with the Association of Education Publishers and It's really its goal is to build a common metadata vocabulary For educational content and we all know that the OER Search and discovery has been a really tough nut to crack. We hope this will be a piece of that puzzle the kind of The origination of the ideas obviously, you know teachers and students that can't find high quality materials You know, what's the point and everyone's using web scale search to find things these days We need to be able to enable some of those things. I shall also note that this process is happening in public and We have a draft Schema of the properties that are being discussed right now and it's at the URL at the bottom of the page You can comment on those draft properties if you wish the way the properties with the way the schema would work This is an analogy where you can go on Google right now Type in something like potato salad recipe if you look on the Navigation bar on the left it'll pull up this little nice little checkbox to allow you to choose What you want your potato salad be it mayonnaise mustard strangely also potatoes on there But this is essentially how how LMI would work for educational content be able to filter based on different properties including things like Learner age license, which would be a really useful obviously A set of 10 to 15 different tags. Oh Of course, and we should note that we're going to be helping the DOL grantees to mark up their content with the LR my schema so Cable wants to talk about the final point threats and opportunities. Yeah, so this is part of the discussion where cable gets angry Because people are writing things like this and putting it into bills in the in the US Congress, so So I think it was Gandhi who said When you when you starting something new that's hard and it's challenging is Is world-changing first they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you and then you win And so we're in phase three of that sequence and so the I thought that Without naming anybody in particular the Really what's going on? I think we all are clear. I just there are a set of Tools that we now have in the 21st century mainly the affordance of digital things open licensing the internet The want of many people around the world to share Their creative works and for information generally to want to be free. There's also simultaneously a massive want for educational opportunity and I'll save my my speech for Thursday morning on those topics, but nevertheless the there are also a large number of Existing businesses that make their money primarily based on 20th century models three minutes. Okay, thanks And and those 20th century models are essentially based on scarcity of information and Gatekeeping information selling access to that that limited information. Well, we all know in the room that digital resources Are not limited in fact are non rivalrous and you can make a billion copies of these PowerPoint slides at almost no cost Very close to zero and we can send around the world at no cost So this is very challenging to existing business models and those business models are starting to fight and And this is one of the most recent things We we put this particular challenge up because it directly affects the Department of Labor grant that we've been talking about And as you can read in the bold color, this would essentially say that Nobody who gets a Department of Labor grant may use those funds to build Anything it's silent on open license as you notice, but you just can't build anything if There's a commercial option Available that you can buy off the shelf or if there's one that's potentially under development So so let's put this in practical terms Oh, and by the way, the Secretary of Labor has to certify the search that you've done and only then are you allowed to Build anything so you can see it's a it's a bit ridiculous But this is the this is the response to To what's going on to this broader open policy that says Publicly funded works should be freely and openly available to the public us that pay for it. So So this is a challenge The there are many people working on this from many different angles right now I see just reading this I see a couple big ways for one of them is to have the language removed And that might happen And another way frankly is to potentially reverse the language, right? So I would say something like none of the funds may be used to To buy any resources until a complete comprehensive search of all, you know, open education Open the license materials or anything that we might have under development So I say that a bit tongue-in-cheek, but that's often what happens in legislation negotiations They'll use the same language just tweak the words But but let's be serious about it and look at what this would really mean So this would actually mean that so I'm from Washington state your shoreline community college had Really a great idea about developmental math and they had something that was really proven they were collecting data on it and they think that they want to share it and That they wanted to get the Department of Labor of grant to take to take it scale and take it to the next level What this law would actually say is no you're not allowed to do that Because McGraw Hill or Pearson or somebody else also offers developmental math that you're gonna have to buy and they're gonna own the copy Right, you're gonna have to pay the licensing rights year after year And so I'm sorry that you've got this great invasion, but you can't have a grant To add on to it or build anything because there's off the shelf So you can sort of see that this is a little bit over the top, but Nevertheless, it's there and it's real and it's currently in the house built and so Only enough said on that for now But there you know We are the point of the slide is that we need to be we the open community at large need to be ready to Voice our opinions about things like that And the good news about us is that we are large We are rather passionate folk And we don't mind stepping up to challenges like that. So So without going into any specifics don't be surprised if you're called upon By somebody in the future to voice your opinion and as Tim said there are and you heard this this morning from the Department of Education folks There are formal process opportunities that take place in any government and and Jim Shelton talked about this morning There's there's open comment periods. There are opportunities That are a matter just a part of the process they go through Where you can voice your opinions where it's logged into the public record where you can as a citizen as a tax-paying citizen You can voice Couple final points one is that we at creative commons believe that this is a good policy Not that last slide we think that this one's the garbage But we think of this that what the Department of Labor is doing is is really on the right track They're saying very clearly that public funds should be openly and freely, but the works creative public funds should be open educational resources If you're interested in that topic that open policy topic I'll be giving a keynote on that on Thursday morning at 8 30 and if you'd like more information about what Tim and I Have been chatting about creative commons has a just kind of a placeholder page We'll be putting up a full website on this project and then the Department of Labor also has a website that as they put out new information It's all up there. And by the way, they will be posting the full proposals of all of the winning grantees if you're interested in looking at those We don't know yet. That's still TVA to fairly fairly soon Of course these slides have all been put directly into the public domain Any questions for either Tim or me That's our contact information. That's where we tweet and we'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you