Learn about the soon-to-be-launched Creative Commons Institute for Open Leadership. Creative Commons will develop an Institute for Open Leadership to train new leaders in education, science, and public policy fields on the values and implementation of openness in licensing, policies, and practices. By training new leaders, connecting them to each other and helping them complete their first capstone open project in their institution, we will prepare them to guide emerging movements in open science, open education, open government, and open culture. These movements are using Creative Commons licenses to broaden public access to knowledge, data, culture, and research around the world, creating new opportunities for education, innovation, and creativity.The Institute for Open Leadership will select twenty applicants in year one and twenty applicants in year two, through a competitive application process, to participate in an intensive week-long training session with leading experts in open fields. Each participant will develop an outcomes-based plan for a capstone open project, and report on progress within one year. Through training and the project period, participants will develop the skills, relationships, and motivation to become leaders for openness in their institutions and fields. Recording: (start at time index 6:50) https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2014-03-11.0920.M.C6B90578DBC2AAB599F3028794676B.vcr&sid=2008170

1. Institute for
Open Leadership

3. openpolicynetwork.org

4. WHY?

5. Current system = broken

6. Optimized system = possible!

7. OPEN POLICY:
Publicly funded
resources are openly
licensed resources

8. EXAMPLE

10. ● Warsaw CC Summit 2011
● OER on the radar of policymakers
● affiliates requested support
● current efforts decentralized and uncoordinated
● need a network to share and discuss
● need best data, toolkits, arguments
● let’s not miss opportunities that arise!
IDEA

11. MISSION
● Foster the creation, adoption, and
implementation of open policies that advance
the public good.
● Do this by supporting advocates,
organizations, policymakers, and connecting
policy opportunities with those who can
provide assistance.

12. PRINCIPLE
S
• ‘Open Policy’: publicly funded resources are
openly licensed resources
• Default aim for policy licensing: Open Definition (with
preference for CC BY and CC0).
• Do not recreate the wheel; leverage expertise
• Work from existing policy recommendations: Paris
OER, BOAI, Panton Principles, Communia, etc.
• Free for anyone to join. Contribute and abide by
mission and guiding principles.

13. WORK PLAN
● Link to, catalog, and curate existing policy resources.
● Build new resources and/or services only where
capacity or expertise does not currently exist.
● Connect policy makers to experts.
● Provide baseline level of assistance for all
opportunities.
● Share information with openly with members and the
public, using open licenses (of course), multiple
languages, transparent fashion.

16. Institute for Open Leadership

17. WHAT?

18. • weeklong intensive in-person training program on ‘open’
• train new leaders in the values and implementation of
open licensing, policies, and practices
• connect emerging open leaders with one another
• provide access to experts in variety of open fields
• 20 participants each year; 2 years
• instructors from various open areas: education, science,
open access, PSI, data, software, culture, etc.
Institute for
Open Leadership

19. WHY?

20. ● need for sustainable open movement and new
generation of open leadership
● expand reach of open ideas and practice into new
institutions and areas
● leaders can set positive example and give advice
to others
● in person is valuable mode for training and
networking
Institute for
Open Leadership

21. • participants will propose an open project, work on at
institute week, complete at their institutions within a
year
● transform the concepts learned at the institute into
practical, actionable, and sustainable initiative within
his/her institution
● SUCCESS =
○ Increase the amount of openly licensed materials in
the commons;
○ Increase awareness among colleagues and related
stakeholders about the benefits of openness;
○ Successful implementation of policy;
○ Demonstrate measurable results.
Focus on capstone
projects

22. EXAMPLE

23. Librarian at a university able to
foster an open access policy at
their institution; university
faculty agree to contribute
publicly funded research into
the university repository under
open licenses.

24. ● who: emerging leaders and mid-level managers not already
involved in the open community but showing interest and
potential, high impact
● process:
○ application & selection period
○ primed for institute by completing open courses from
School of Open
○ intensive in-person event
○ completion of open policy capstone projects
● timeline:
○ March 2014 application period; July 2014 institute 1
○ November 2014 application period; March 2015 institute
2
● travel/hotels/meals paid for through grants from Hewlett and
Logistics

25. OPN
IOL

26. tvol@creativecommons.org

27. Credits
● Institution - by Thibault Geffroy from the Noun Project - CC BY
● Big idea - from the Noun Project, Public Domain
● Blueprint - by Dimitry Sokolov from The Noun Project - CC BY
● Check List - by fabrice dubuy from The Noun Project - CC BY
● Hackathon - by Iconathon 2012 - CC0
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