OpenNCCC Governance Policy

Steering Committee  

Mission: 

The mission of the openNCCC Steering Committee is to ensure a high-quality and useful  repository of OER for the NCCCS. To that end it establishes and enforces quality standards,  approves the accessioning of resources, and encourages the development of new OER  materials. This Committee also advocates for the use of OER materials across the NCCCS.  

Definition:  

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any  medium—digital or otherwise—that reside in the public domain or have been released under  an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation, and redistribution by others with  no or limited restrictions (Hewlett Foundation, 2018).  

Membership:  

This Steering Committee will be composed of System Office and college representatives.  Leadership of this Committee will be shared by faculty and administration. 

Membership List: To Be Announced 

Membership and Permissions: 

• Logins grant access to both public and private collections. Private collections may be  limited to the private groups which submitted them and are governed by administrative  permissions. 

• Full database access is restricted to members of the NCCCS. 

Membership to restricted groups/hubs. 

• Hubs: A hub is a custom resource center created by openNCCC for certain networks of  users. Users can create and share collections, administer groups, and share news and  events associated with a project or organization. 

• Groups: A group is a self-identified collaboration among people with similar interest.  Groups include spaces to share materials and discuss issues and ideas. 

• Public OER collections are available to all.