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Online Program Development

Paul StaceyDirector of DevelopmentBCcampuspstacey@bccampus.ca

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Open/Sharing Strategy

Long tradition of open scholarly sharing in higher education

New open initiatives in higher education crystallized around threemajor areas of activity:

Open software and development tools

Open educational resources

Open licenses

BCcampus is proactively pursuing all of these open strategies

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Open Educator Services

Apply open ethos to development of teaching and learningresources

Support sustainability by—

revealing supply

aggregating demand and requirements across multiple institutions

forming development partnerships between institutions to avoidduplication of effort

stimulating innovation through open publishing, sharing and reuse

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Open Educational Resources

Online Program Development Fund(OPDF)

Intellectual property agreements

Licenses for sharing and reuse

Repository of licensed reusableacademic resources (SOL*R)

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Integrate Open Services

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Annual fund provided by Ministry ofAdvanced Education

Issued via Request For Proposals (RFP)to public post secondary

Five rounds 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007- $6.25 million investment

Online programs, courses, virtual labs,learning objects & technologies - Pro-D,co-created content

Inter-institutional collaboration &partnerships

Online Program Development Fund

Open Strategy #1

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OPDF Summary - First 5 Rounds

346 proposals seeking over $23 million in funding

~70% collaborative inter-institutional project proposals

External partners e-learning private sector companies, non-profitorganizations, hospitals, associations, First Nations, …

Award done by evaluation committee of 8 peers from system

91 proposals awarded grants totaling ~ $6 million

All public post-secondary institutions received grants

284 courses, 63 course modules, 150 learning objects, 19 virtuallabs & tools

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Sampling of Funded ProjectsPsychology Online Degree (incrementally developed via 3 grants)

Academic Resource Toolbox - toolkit for information literacy, writingskills and learning skills developed via librarian partnership

Renewable Energy Certificate program of 7 online courses

Integrated Laboratory Network (ILN) for science education involvingshared access to scientific instrumentation, instructional materials andexpertise

Bachelor of Tourism Management online degree

Web Content Accessibility resources and practices enabling accessibilityto online courses for disabled, international and low-bandwidth users

Learn Together professional learning resources for educators

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Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property (IP) policies differ across BC’s public postsecondary system

For OPDF initiatives IP rests with the developer - institution orfaculty as defined by policy

Each OPDF project has a contractual agreement acknowledgingIP rests with developer and, at the same time, requiring a licensefor sharing and reuse

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Sharing & Reuse License

Use of licenses to ensure developer rights are protected while atthe same time enabling sharing and reuse by others

Developers choose between two license options

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License

BC Commons (Attribution-Share Alike) License

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Developers agreement accordsIntellectual Property to developers –institution or faculty

Choice of sharing via CreativeCommons or BC Commons

Upfront system protects developersrights while enabling reuse,modification and distribution -continuous improvement

Develop once - use many

Eliminates weeks/months ofpermission seeking time

Open Licenses

Open Strategy #2

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BC Commons/Creative Commons

BC Commons on the continuum relative to Creative Commons

BCC

License for global sharingLicense for local sharing

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Selection of License Generates

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Clicking Icon Goes To Deed

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The Full Legal License

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BC Commons License

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BC Commons DeedSUMMARY OFBC COMMONS LICENSE(Version 1.2)

If you are a BC public post-secondary educational institution, youare permitted:

to copy the work

to make derivative works

to use the work or derivative works only as part of a publicly offeredcredit or non-credit course or program which is provided by you

to use any software included in the work to assist you to use any otherwork only as part of a publicly offered credit or non-credit course orprogram which is provided by you

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BC Commons DeedUnder the following conditions:

You must ensure that you have obtained all necessary rights for anythird party materials that are included in the work.

You must give the original author credit.

If you make a derivative work, you must provide a copy to BCcampusfor distribution under the terms of the BC Commons License.

Any re-use or distribution must be on the terms of the BC CommonsLicense.

Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from theLicensor.

Your fair dealing and similar rights are in no way affected.

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License Generator

http://solr.bccampus.ca/bcc/BCcommons/publish/publish.html

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MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

Rice University Connexionshttp://cnx.org

Carnegie Mellon Open LearningInitiative http://www.cmu.edu/oli/

And lots of others …

Different benefits to going global

Global Open Educational Resources

Over 90% of BCcampus OPDF developers choosing BC Commons license.Numerous other global examples using Creative Commons license

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Commercial repository software fromThe Learning Edge in Australia

Deployed by BCcampus in Nov 2005

All resources produced through OPDFuploaded to SOL*R

1000+ users

800+ “lesson” or larger resources

Reporting system in place

SOL*R

Open Strategy #3

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Remix & ReuseShareable Online Learning Resources (SOL*R) is a service forBC post-secondary educators aimed at facilitating:

Sharing

Discovery

Remixing &

Reuse

http://solr.bccampus.ca

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Open Benefits

Social

Economic

Quality

Collaboration & Partnerships

Academic Planning

Marketing & Public Relations

vs.

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$1 million dollar RFP announcedMay 29, 2008

Two categories:

Courses and Learning Objects(expected allocation ~ 85% of fund)

Professional Learning Resources(expected allocation ~ 15% of fund)

Due Date Oct 24, 2008

2008 OPDF RFP

http://www.bccampus.ca/EducatorServices/CourseDevelopment/OPDF/CallForProposals.htm