Affordable Learning Georgia Textbook Transformation Grants: Hosting Your Work

To ensure that ALG grant projects have a lasting effect throughout the USG, Affordable Learning Georgia requires works created through the grants to be freely- accessible to the public, preferably through an open license.

Free to access + legal permissions Open: Free to access + legal permissions Creative Commons = understandable, easy licenses giving these permissions Freely-Accessible: Free to access, includes both open and all-rights- reserved copyright Example: PBS-supplied YouTube video

Brightspace (D2L) is NOT open Brightspace D2L is a USG-subscribed Learning Management System (LMS) which allows instructors to share a closed online course with their students. If you want to make your D2L materials freely- available, you will have to present your material in an another platform, perhaps as a “copy” of what you create in D2L.

For your final report: Newly-created course content: Open Required 2) Free syllabus w/ collection of links for the course: 3) Tests, Quizzes, and other student assessments: Optional

Newly-created course content must be open: Textbooks or short-form works Supplementary materials Photos, videos, audio Created content will be shared by links to all content that is accessible on the Web through the linked syllabus.

Research Paper / Essay assignments Sharing your assessments with anyone other than your own students is optional: Tests and Quizzes Research Paper / Essay assignments Successful sharers of student assessments (such as OpenStax) have a vetting system in place to distribute tests and quizzes to faculty only. ALG does not have this type of system, so open is optional.

GALILEO Open Learning Materials Demo

For other hosting options: ALG Platforms and Hosting Page http://www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org/open_resources/platforms

Preferred license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY) This is the most open (and least confusing) license, and it requires an attribution to the original creator and work CC-BY allows for derivative works, such as new editions, remixes, and accessible versions. Avoid the ND clause (no derivatives), as this makes materials unable to be updated or remixed by others.