1. Creating Collaborative Connections to Digital Resources

2. Where do we start? Kentucky – recent historic actions for education Creative Commons & OER – the global perspective The Depot – crowdsourcing & cost savings Demo The Orange Grove – crossing borders & legislation Demo Other projects Where do you go? Unbridled Learning

3. Mandate (Senate Bill 1) enacted 2009 for -- the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), the Kentucky Board of Education (KBE), and the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) -- To create a Unified Strategy for College and Career Readiness to reduce college remediation and to increase the college completion rates by 2014 Kentucky’s Unbridled Learning

4. To align revised K-12 academic standards with college readiness requirements and expectations and promote degree completion: Accelerated Learning Opportunities Secondary Intervention Programs College and Career Readiness Advising Postsecondary College Persistence and Degree Completion Four Key Strategies

5. Kentucky was the first state to adopt the Common Core Standards (Feb. 2010): To be known as the Kentucky Core Academic Standards for English/Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics Provides grade by grade level content standards linked to college and career readiness standards Integrate final standards into agency work and processes to ensure that all Kentucky students experience a successful and productive future KY Core Academic Standards

6. KY Council on Postsecondary Education’s Objectives College Readiness – increase a number of Kentuckians college-ready and entering postsecondary education and college-ready GED graduates, and increase effectiveness of K-12 teachers and school leaders Student Success – increase high-quality degree production at all levels, close achievement gaps, decrease financial barriers to college access & completion Research, Economic & Community Development Efficiency & Innovation Higher Ed Strategic Agenda 2011-15

8. A simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to your creative work.

10. Step 1: Choose Conditions Attribution ShareAlikeNonCommercial NoDerivatives

11. Step 2: Receive a License

12. most free least free

14. Updated #s (and growing fast) Over 500 million items

15. Culture Science Government Education More

16. 72 Creative Commons “Affiliate” Teams

17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22240293@N05/3735172478/in/set-72157621681117648 By: Francisco Diez

18. Higher Ed

19. Education grant making

20. Search & Discovery

21. Translations & Accessibility

22. Customization & Affordability

23. Easy-to-use, standardized licenses and public domain tools that allow creators to publish their works on more flexible terms than standard copyright

25. Integration Quality educational resources from Kentucky educators along with the best free courses, videos, lesson plans and open access textbooks Search for, select and add new content from inside an online course Integrates seamlessly with Blackboard, Moodle and ANGEL course management systems Package once/reuse many times in the classroom Mix & Match

26. Integration Quality educational resources from Kentucky educators along with the best free courses, videos, lesson plans and open access textbooks Search for, select and add new content from inside an online course Integrates seamlessly with Blackboard, Moodle and ANGEL course management systems Package once/reuse many times in the classroom Mix & Match

27. The Depot Inside Blackboard

28. Using open source materials

29. OLPC and FOSS@RIT--Education innovation the open source way By: opensourceway http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4863541086/sizes/o/in/photostream/ CC BY-SA

30. Collaboration Learning community of members contributing, commenting, evaluating or suggesting resources for the Depot’s collection Depot Scholars provide peer review for quality control and improvement Work with colleagues to create original content using the Depot’s built-in collaboration tools Act as volunteer reviewer, have about 90 Scholars Create or Review

31. Publication Add original resources under Creative Commons copyright licensing Usage tracking of original resources with reporting Receive feedback from the Depot community in the form of comments and starred reviews Find OER textbooks and other digital content from partner states and the planet Share & Rate

32. Kentucky Core Academic Standards PD resources on the new Common Core State Standards, whether postsecondary or K-12, posted in the Kentucky Learning Depot Access and share standards-aligned materials across borders and collaborate with educators in other states Shared taxonomies provide metadata, tagging and connective “language” Standards & Taxonomies

33. Local, National & Global Content Kentuckiana Digital Library – hundreds of digital images, documents, audio files about Kentucky history NROC – high quality online course content for postsecondary and high school level education Other state repositories - more high quality content through cooperative efforts New content – content is alive and growing

34. Robin Donaldson – Project Manager Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheOGReposit ory/videoshttp://www.youtube.com/user/TheOGReposit ory/videos Video: http://youtu.be/kIsCs1XGC-s http://youtu.be/kIsCs1XGC-s Crossing Borders - Share & Share Alike

35. The Obviousness of Open Policy Dr. Cable Green Director of Global Learning cable@creativecommons.org twitter: cgreen

36. http://www.kylearningdepot.org/contact/ Enid Wohlstein, Director Kentucky Learning Depot enid.wohlstein@ky.gov