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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hi Colleen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Thank you so much for the insightful question & bringing this to my attention!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">A short answer to your inquiry is that a course provided through the third party bookstore products, such as
<b>BNC OER+</b> (formerly known as Barnes & Noble Education LoudCloud Courseware),
<b>cannot be marked with the OER label</b> per our state labeling policy. Such course may, however,
<b>be labeled as Low-Cost </b>if the course fee for each student is $50 or less.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FDMutJccGdEZ1mtB-4eoAbvCmkS7t-tvqGoBrAIopO0/edit?usp=sharing">WA CTC’s labeling policy guideline</a> states that to be designated as an OER course, a course should
use Open Educational Resources (OER) as the primary, required instructional materials for the course. In the policy, OER are defined as resources released either under an open license or in the public domain permitting their free use, repurposing and sharing
(See the <i>Definition and criteria</i> & <i>Qualified cases</i> in page 2). <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">In other words, unless the content of BNC OER+ program is publicly available with a clear terms of use that allows free public access, it cannot be considered for OER labeling. I have updated the labeling
guideline and <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uebgWfcUL7NOwywZktaju0-5JS7uzkfXu3BwV-0090s/edit?usp=sharing">
FAQ</a> to reflect this. Please do let me know anytime with any comments, especially for these new items that need further clarification.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Thanks again,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Boyoung<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Chae, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Ebrima">Policy Associate, Educational Technology & Open Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Ebrima">Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="openwa.org"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Ebrima">Openwa.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Ebrima"> |
</span><a href="https://www.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/programs-services/educational-technology-open-education/oer-low-cost-label-implementation.aspx"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Ebrima">OER & Low-Cost Label</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Ebrima"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:bchae@sbctc.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Ebrima">bchae@sbctc.edu</span></a> |<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Ebrima">360-628-3549<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Ebrima">Texts Welcome!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Colleen Sanders <<a href="mailto:Colleen.Sanders@skagit.edu">Colleen.Sanders@skagit.edu</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 9, 2019 4:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Boyoung Chae <<a href="mailto:bchae@sbctc.edu">bchae@sbctc.edu</a>>; <a href="mailto:hmayer@everettcc.edu">
hmayer@everettcc.edu</a>; Claver Hategekimana <<a href="mailto:Claver.Hategekimana@skagit.edu">Claver.Hategekimana@skagit.edu</a>>; Mindy Coslor <<a href="mailto:Mindy.Coslor@skagit.edu">Mindy.Coslor@skagit.edu</a>>; Elena Bianco <<a href="mailto:Elena.Bianco@skagit.edu">Elena.Bianco@skagit.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: OER & Low-Cost Labelling + ctcLink + inclusive access<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif">Hi Boyoung,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif">Thank you for including inclusive access models in the coding guidelines, as well as critically addressing them on the listserv.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif">I can’t believe I didn’t ask this before, but where on the OER/Low Cost Labelling schema will third-party bookstore products such as
<a href="https://www.bncoerplus.com/">Barnes & Noble’s LoudCloud OER Courseware</a>? LoudCloud is marketed as OER but 1) come at a cost to students and 2) do not allow faculty the full 5 R permissions, such as editing and remixing text? Barnes & Noble markets
these as OER to colleges with whom it wants to sign bookstore contracts, and markets them as OER to faculty, despite not meeting the criteria for being OER. Often, B&N takes CC-BY resources, puts them behind a paywall on LoudCloud, adds learning analytics,
then sells them back to the colleges (they re-license the completed OER-based products, ironically, as CC-BY-NC). B&N allows you to
<span style="color:#0070C0"><a href="https://scc.bncollege.com/shop/scc-falls/page/find-oer"><span style="color:#0070C0">search for OER materials on their bookstore websites</span></a></span>, although the results aren’t intelligible to me (both a copyrighted
text ISBN <span style="background:white">9781503606715; and an OpenStax text are labelled as OER).
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif;background:white">To what extent will the move to ctcLink and the SBCTC’s work on OER/Low Cost Labelling hold third-party bookstore publishers accountable for labelling texts as
true OER, versus OER-based products or copyrighted texts? Who will be fact-checking third party bookstore reports of OER adoption, especially considering these companies often sell OER-based products that are *<b>not</b>* OER?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif">FYI, B&N has contracts at about ½ the CTCs in the state right now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif">Colleen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif">Colleen Sanders, MLS, she/her<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif">Faculty Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif">360-416-7607<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:colleen.sanders@skagit.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif">colleen.sanders@skagit.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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