Paul Stacey

Special thanks to Sylvia Currie and Hilda Hilda Anggraeni for assembling a wonderful summary of who participated in this seminar and what parts of the world they are from.
http://scope.bccampus.ca/mod/wiki/view.php?pageid=219

Paul

Sylvia:

Great question!

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Carole:

I did some searching through the open textbook sources I know of for a Career Development textbook but came up empty. Expect Career Development may not yet have a textbook written that you can adapt. You get to be the originating author! :)

Boundless has some interesting options related to open textbook replacements for traditional Career Development texts. You can check those out by searching for Career Development in the Find your Book field at https://www.boundless.com/register/select-book/

While I didn't find a complete Career Development textbook I did find Career Development Open Educational Resources (OER). These are instructional and course materials that are openly licensed and may be suitable for you to use/adapt as part of creating a textbook. To find these resources go to the following sites and search for Career Development:

http://www.oercommons.org
http://www.cnx.org
http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/searching.do

The Open University in the UK has a openly licensed course on Careers education and guidance that may also be useful:
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/careers-education-and-guidance/content-section-0?name=TL_CAREERS

I also should say that the US Dept of Labor has a large grant program called TAACCCT that is funding collages to create stackable/latticed credentials that provide workers with skills and knowledge to work in high growth industry sectors. Everything the colleges develop in this program must be openly licensed with a CC BY license which allows everyone to reuse. All of the TAACCCT programs involve Career Coaches. If you do a Google search for "DOL TAACCCT; career coaching" you'll uncover some of this work and the people involved.

In my work with DOL TAACCCT grantees many of them are also searching for open educational resources. To help them I authored a Find OER page at http://open4us.org/find-oer/ which you might find a useful place to start searches from.

You mention you've found some material in the Gale Encyclopedia related to Career Development Theorists and am trying to figure out if this is a CC resource? Gale publishes a huge array of resources and I'm not sure exactly which one you found this in. However, the Gale resources I looked at are all copyrighted. This doesn't necessarily mean you can't use that material. But to use it you'd have to decide whether it fits within whats allowed in terms of fair use and then appropriately reference it or if you want to use a large amount ask for permission to use. Most openly licensed resources are readily identifiable as they are typically marked with the Creative Commons icons as shown in the Licenses section of this page http://creativecommons.org/licenses/. When you find a resource look for one of those icons or look to see if it has the copyright symbol on it or read the terms of use.

You ask if it will be a problem if your students download the text you write. You will be the copyright holder for your textbook. However, as is being discussed in this open textbook seminar you can give permissions for others (including students) to use your work  by simply placing a Creative Commons license on it.

Gina:

I agree with your observation that we should be thankful to anyone who is generous enough to provide any level of openness to their creative works. And its not just creative works. I see this generosity as a kind of sharing. I see this willingness to share as affecting lots of other aspects of society too. See Shareable for examples.

It's also great to hear how much students appreciate having course materials openly available on the web. I've looked at the example you gave - Nick Strobel's astronomy site. I totally agree that having astronomynotes.com available for free as a web site is great for students and I'm delighted to hear the quality is good too. This is worth celebrating and does represent a certain kind of openness and sharing.

Even though Nick's site is full copyright he offers it as a resource in astronomy education and encourages others to use it in their own astronomy courses or talks. That is generous.

Its also interesting to note whats in it for him. Whats in it for him includes:

• Attribution: He specifies the notice of authorship he requires others to use. (In my view this is highly valuable to Nick. In higher education citations and examples of pervasive global use are part of how your performance is measured)
• Money: Nick is offering his books for sale in hardcopy (unspecified amount) or as an e-book. The site says the e-book is cheaper than hardcopy - only about $55.60. Books are to ordered from McGraw Hill. (Supplementing your teaching salary with income from your course materials is certainly a practice that has been part of higher education for many years. If Nick teaches at a public institution and is paid by taxpayers to create his educational resources I think Nick should share them with the public.)
•  Ownership Control - Nick's copyright notice specifies others should go to his site at www.astronomynotes.com for the updated and corrected version.

In Creative Commons lingo we might say Nick is using a CC BY-NC-ND license. NC meaning non-commercial (he retains commercial rights) and ND meaning he retains the rights to make changes.

There is nothing wrong with retaining these rights. However when I consider the educational potential of digital resources I see each of those as limitations. I think sometimes CC-BY is held out as the ideal license because it has the highest value and offers the greatest affordances for innovation - including pedagogical innovation.