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Current Status/Baseline for period July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013Outcome (needs to be measurable)
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Period 1
August 1, 2013 - February 28, 2014		Period 2
March 1, 2014 - February 28, 2015		Period 3
March 1, 2015 - February 28, 2016		Notes
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GOAL 1 - Steward the Commons: The Internet is a place of sharing, innovation and collaboration.
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OUTCOMES: (1) Increased understanding about open licensing and open education among teachers and learners. (2) Policy makers understand and leverage CC tools through implementation of open policies to ensure publicly funded resources are openly licensed.
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Objective/Activity 1-a
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Advocate for the adoption and implementation of open policies through the creation of an Open Policy Network (OPN). OPN is in start-up mode. Initial brainstorming meeting (Oct 2012), mission, governance structure and guiding principles done. Seeking funding and signing up individuals and groups (currently ~20 members). Governments and foundations are starting to shift to adopt open policies that require publicly funded resources be openly licensed. The $2 billion US DOL TAACCCT grant, Poland's open textbook project, open policy legislation in the State of Sao Paulo are all encouraging signs that policy makers increasingly understand how open policies increase the impact of public education investments and increase educational access to their citizens. Add 10 new members across discipline areas geographic regions; develop OPN website; research and case studies by CC interns; share open policy information and opportunities on OPN listserv; support US federal open textbook bill; support CETIS in open policy proposal to Scottish government; seek funding from foundations; start monthly conference calls.Develop template open policy language and conduct outreach to policymakers across disciplines to educate about and eventually implement open policies. Aiming for 5 new open policies across sectors. Add 20 new members to OPN. Further development of OPN website and educational materials.Continue outreach to policymakers across disciplines to educate about and implement open policies. Aiming for 10 open policies across sectors. Add 20 new members to OPN. Further development of OPN website and educational materials. Rotate OPN leadership to another group.Open policies requiring open licenses promote downstream reuse and remixing of OER thereby increasing the impact of public funding. 3-year goal: OPN has 70 members and has supported 15 open policies internationally.
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Objective/Activity 1-b
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Educate existing and prospective users about open licensing, resources, and policies through the School of Open (SOO).

8 volunteers ran workshops to create courses or introduce the concept of open/CC licenses in 4 countries.
15 volunteers developed 17 courses, 13 stand-alone, 4 facilitated.
3 of the facilitated courses and 7 of the stand-alone courses incorporated education on CC licenses or OER. Other topics covered included open data for GLAMs and science, open access, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, and open video formats.

Participants reached through F2F workshops: ~150
Participants reached through facilitated courses: ~100
Participants reached through stand-alone courses: ~350

12 volunteers facilitate 7 courses in Q4 2013. 4 courses incorporate education on CC licenses or OER. Other topics to be covered: Wikipedia, open science, collaborative workshops, and benefits and issues with using open resources. 7 courses incorporate badges for recognition as part of P2PU's badges pilot.

Collaboration with OER research hub: Research conducted on the attitudes of educators towards sharing and OER before and after courses, culminating in report that includes recommendations to increase course impact.

Estimated total participants reached through facilitated courses: 200
Estimated total participants reached through stand-alone courses: 100		5 new volunteers recruited from the CC community
5 courses facilitated three times a year. All courses incorporate badges for recognition.
5 new stand-alone courses developed.

Explore integrating educator-oriented courses into professional development training programs, eg. institutions or organizations offer alternative credit for taking courses or require/recommend courses as part of the program.

Year total participants reached through facilitated courses: 300
Year total participants reached through stand-alone courses: 300
Total participants reached through F2F workshops: 200		5 new volunteers recruited from the CC community.
5 courses facilitated three times a year. All courses incorporate badges for recognition.
5 new stand-alone courses developed.

1 or more courses officially recognized, required, or recommended as part of an educator training program at an institution or organization.

Year total participants reached through facilitated courses: 300
Year total participants reached through stand-alone courses: 300
Total participants reached through F2F workshops: 200		Coordinated community action through the “School of Open” could provide
broad open learning opportunities for anyone, anywhere, anytime. 3-year goal: 22 volunteer developers/facilitators, 23 stand-alone courses, 5 facilitated courses 3 times a year.
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Objective/Activity 1-c
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Through shared expertise, testimony and responses to requests for information, increase Creative Commons’ presence in international arenas where open education and open policies are debated.Awareness and use of open education is growing around the world. CC and its affiliates can play an important supporting role in the adoption of open licenses and development of a global education commons. As “open” continues its diffusion in education and “open” is often mistakenly equated only with “free,” it is increasingly important for CC to (a) correct misuse of its licenses and (b) work with other open orgs to promote OER definitions that describe OER as free access + the legal rights to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute.4.0 beginning to be adopted by first round of open education projects and Colleges / Universities; UNESCO open policy participation in 5 countries; US Dept. of Labor adds CC BY funding reqs to additional grants; 2-week MENA nations Open Book project listening tour working closely with CC Arab World affiliates. Continue to develop and hone policy and advocacy process and build capacity to respond to opportunities worldwide. Brainstorm about developing proactive approach, alongside Open Policy Network activities. 10 interventions.Continue participation in high-impact working groups and take lead where open education and open policy opportunities arise. Work on distributing participation among CC HQ staff, RCs and affiliates. 10 interventions.Continue participation in high-impact working groups and take lead where open education and open policy opportunities arise. Work on distributing participation among CC HQ staff, RCs and affiliates. 10 interventions.This requires outreach to faculty and university administration. 3-year goal: at least 30 open licensing / open policy interventions at state, national, international levels.
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Objective/Activity 1-d
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Support MOOCs in enabling platform CC licensing options for contributing Universities.CC is working with all major MOOCs to help them understand the strategic benefits of using open licenses.Run a general campaign redefining open in MOOCs ("MOOCs vs. MOCs") campaign - moving MOOCs to CC licensing. Work with 5 large Universities and foundations to put pressure on MOOCs to allow CC licensing on MOOC platforms. Support 5 Universities to CC license their MOOC courses in Coursera, edX, Canvas.net and Future Learn.Support 10 Universities to CC license their MOOC courses. Work with at least 1 MOOC platform to define the pedagogical benefits of OER in MOOCs. Work with SPARC's student advocates to generate student awareness of the benefits of OER in MOOCs.Support 15 Universities to CC license their MOOC courses. Work with at least 2 MOOC providers to define the pedagogical benefits of OER in MOOCs. Continued student advocacy work to push for OER in MOOCs.MOOCs have brought free, online learning into the mainstream global education conversation. If CC can get MOOCs to allow their contributing Universities to easily add a CC license to courses (platform adoption), CC and OER can be part of the MOOC conversation and take advantage of this opportunity to reach a large new audience. 3 year goals: (a) 20 Universities are putting CC licenses on their MOOC courses. (b) In 3 years we'll see a greater differentiation of MOOC's in the marketplace. One aspect of that differentiation will be CC licensing vs no CC licensing.
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GOAL 2 - Develop Innovative Products: Make it easy to create, find and share openly licensed works
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OUTCOME: There is a community using a Creative Commons tool which makes the pool of Creative Commons content more explicit, and creates the conditions to expand the size and the quality of the Creative Commons pool.
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Objective/Activity 1-a
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Successfully complete LRMI (phases 1, 2, 3)LRMI spec done. Schema.org has adopted LRMI. 7 OER projects have implemented LRMI. Importance of meta-data is generally understood in education, but not prioritized because search engine UIs have not changed to leverage LRMI.Hire new LRMI lead. Partner with 3 OER platforms to implement LRMI; create mappings of current meta-data to LRMI.Create documentation on implementation work. Lead hand-off of LRMI spec to long term governance / steward. Partner with 5 OER platforms / projects to implement LRMI.Partner with 5 OER platforms / projects to implement LRMI.3 year goal: LRMI is the standard education meta-data schema for OER and CC has successfully transitioned LRMI to a long-term governing body.
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Support and advise the CC Product team as it designs CC products / tools for educators.Today, it is not trivially easy to: add a CC license to your work from the CC license chooser, search and discover CC-licensed high quality OER that fits specific educational needs, and/or track use and reuse of your CC licensed work.Support and advise the CC Product team to develop tools to make it trivially easy to (a) add a CC license to educational content, (b) search and discover CC works, and (c) track and use and reuse of your CC licensed work.Adding a CC license is one-click. Tracking use and reuse of one’s CC licensed works is a simple “opt-in” and a dashboard. Promote these tools in open education community.> 25% of CC licensed educational resources are indexed, tagged with LRMI meta-data, easily search-able on major search engines, and use/reuse can be tracked.3-year goal: Marking, finding and tracking CC licenses is exceedingly simple making it significantly easier to: educate about open, convince educators and learners to openly license their work, and get open policies implemented.
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Work with DOL and TAACCCT grantees on design and implementation of repository/referatory for the $2 billion in resources being developed.DOL has not built or selected a repository for DOL grantee content.Assist DOL in creating criteria to select an OER repository that can host all TAACCCT content.Teach all DOL grantees how to use the repository and upload their content.Promote the reuse of the DOL (CC BY) content throughout the global education community.3-year goal: All DOL TAACCCT CC BY licnesed content is properly marked, easily found, reused and remixed.
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GOAL 3 - Strengthen the Affiliate Network: Increase the capacity and reach of the Affiliate Network
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OUTCOME: Engaged, effective affiliates in all regions.
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Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration among affiliates, across regions, and between affiliates and headquarters. Global affiliates and other experts are eager to work with CC Education’s team - and vice-versa.Develop a slate of “special projects” ready for CC education fellows / interns. Support affiliates with tookkits, resources, and networks that help them advocate for and support implementation of OER in their regions/countries.Develop and fund 1 major open education project with CC Education and Affiliates. Continued support for CC Affiliates to advocate for and support implementation of OER in their regions/countries.Develop and fund 2 major open education project with CC Education and Affiliates. Continued support for CC Affiliates to advocate for and support implementation of OER in their regions/countries.3-year goal: CC Education's strategy is contributed to, continuously iterated on, embraced and supported by CC Affiliates and other open education organizations.
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Utilize Paris OER Declaration as a road-map for OER implementation with CC Affiliates.The recent unanimous agreement to the UNESCO Paris OER Declaration creates an opportunity for CC and its affiliates to support OER and open policy adoption globally.Work with Affiliate Network to develop a project plan - starting at the CC Summit. Co-select 5 countries and implement parts of the Paris OER Declaration.Co-select 5 countries and implement parts of the Paris OER Declaration.Co-select 5 countries and implement parts of the Paris OER Declaration.3 year goal: 15 countries have implemented significant portions of the Paris OER Declaration.
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GOAL 4 - Increase CC License Uptake
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OUTCOME: Increased license adoption and use in education communities, as shown by the increased number and significance of adoptions; public and philanthropic money is shifted to support openly licensed efforts; increased adoption of open licensing policies in government and philanthropy; increased integration in education platforms.The global economic recession and resulting tight education budgets are putting stress on current systems and increasing the willingness of traditional education institutions to look at open models.
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Support all DOL TAACCCT grantees in CC BY licensing the $2 billion in resources they are creating and generate grantee awareness and use of OER resources and practices.Gates funded OPEN partnership with CC, CAST, OLI and SBCTC providing "open" services to round 1 and round 2 DOL TAACCCT grantees. Comprehensive services including conferences, webinars, training, phone and e-mail support already provided to 88% of all round 1 grantees and 60% of round 2 grantees.Analysis done to identify clusters of grantees (round 1 and round 2)
developing curricula in shared academic domains/fields of study and the stack-able/latticed credentials they are creating. OPEN will target
additional services to those grantees with the greatest overlap in
credentials with the aim of fostering greater coordination,
collaboration, and sharing. Aiming for at least 5 grantee OER partnerships.		100% of all grantees supported and correctly using CC BY licenses. Round 1 grantee work showcased and reuse potential for round 3 and 4 publicly presented. Additional funding for CC to support rounds 3 and 4 and brokering reuse of TAACCCT CC BY resources acquired. 10 grantee OER partnerships.DOL TAACCCT program model is adopted and used by at least 2 other US federal departments. Round 2 grantee work showcased and reuse potential for rounds 3 & 4 and beyond public presented. 20 grantee OER partnerships in place. 3 year goal: Ten TAACCCT academic programs have been adopted, revised and reused by Colleges who did not receive the project grant. More important, use this as a model for how national governments can adopt open policies, fund the creation of high quality OER, and then incentivize its reuse.
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Provide guidance and training resources to help user communities reuse and remix CC-licensed content.The number of OER adoptions is increasing to do increased awareness and new "professional grade" (e.g., OpenStax textbooks) that quell quality concerns. However, the OER field (and by extension mainstream OER adoptions) is still hampered by an uneven, disorganized supply, incompatible institutional policies and lack of incentives, and limited proof of effectiveness. The OER field (and Foundations that fund it) is also is moving from increasing supply to increasing demand. Demand side, last-mile work will be critical for mainstream OER adoption.Support California & British Columbia open textbook projects progress building 110 CC BY open textbooks; 4.0 for Educators outreach and Open Ed, SXSWedu, CC Summit & other global OER conferences; seek funding for and begin Open Common Core; promote School of Open as place to learn about CC, reuse & remix.tbd - % increase based on progress Period 1.tbd - % increase based on progress Period 2.3 year goal: OER use is mainstream in primary, secondary and tertiary education.
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Provide support to education technology platforms and OER projects to make it simple for users to (a) mark their works with CC licenses and (b) search / filter by license.CC Education has had success getting large education platform adoptions (Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Apple iTunesU) in the past two years. Need to create a target list and prioritize; while also keeping in mind many platform adoptions are opportunistic, so we shall remain flexible and ready to assist.Implement CC license (marking and search) integration on 2 education platforms. Add / improve CC marking on 3 new / existing open education projects.Implement CC license (marking and search) integration on 2 education platforms. Add / improve CC marking on 3 new / existing open education projects.Implement CC license (marking and search) integration on 2 education platforms. Add / improve CC marking on 4 new / existing open education projects.CC education platform adoptions make it easy for teachers and learners to openly license and share their content and find others’ open content using the tools they already use. 3 year goal: CC license integration in 6 education platforms and 10 education projects.
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Lead the creation of an Open Common Core.Encouraging numbers from the US show how OER is moving into the mainstream: 40% of K-12 educators in the U.S. are using OER to supplement their core materials [BCG, 2012], an indication that adoption has moved beyond a small set of early adopters and OER are making their way into the classroom. However, the movement now faces a chasm between supplementary usage and primary adoption—a feat that will involve traditional textbook replacement in mainstream institutions, whose acceptance and use of the technology would transform education. At present, only 10% of K-12 educators in the U.S. are using OER as primary material [BCG, 2012]. CC hosted meetings with US Common Core State Standards (CCSS) leaders; discussing how to align existing open educational resources and build new OER aligned with the CCSS.Secure grant for phase 1 planning grant to: (1) explore leading states' interest in collectively developing state-of-the-art, openly licensed, common core aligned instructional resources; and based on such interest; (2) development of a comprehensive plan (including a draft multi-state RFP and multi-state procurement arrangement) for funding, creating, distributing, and maintaining such resources. Submit the planning grant to potential funders.Complete phase 1. Start phase 2: launch RFPs to build Common Core aligned OER. Complete phase 2 and work with US States to implement.Work internationally to map connections between various primary / secondary education standards that are mapped to OER. Then create easy-to-use tool that enables educators in any country to see OER aligned to both (a) their local standards aligned to "local" OER and (b) OER aligned to standards in other countries - where standards mappings exist.National primary education curricular standards (e.g., US Common Core State Standards) are emerging. This is a prime opportunity to align existing and create new OER that meets the needs of hundreds of millions of students. 3 year goal: Five national primary / secondary education standards aligned to OER and cross-mappings between national standards complete.
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GOAL 5 - Diversify and Increase Organizational Funding
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OUTCOME: Percent of total funds received from restricted grants decreases each year by at least 15%; number of corporate donors increases by a minimum of five each year; discovery period of revenue generation plan complete by February 2014 with final plan developed and approved by Board of Directors by February 2015.
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Support CC funding efforts to develop a diversified funding base of corporations, individuals, and foundations; and move towards securing a broader base of general operating support (vs. project support). CC Education is actively involved in most of the major CC grants to date.Secure funding to expand School of Open and Open Policy Network.Secure funding to support Round 4 DOL Community College grantees.TBD based on funding needs of promising open education projects.3 year goal: Successful funding to scale successful open education projects.
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