U.S. Department of Labour’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College Career Training (TAACCCT) Case Study

The U.S. Department of Labour's Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant programme was a major investment to promote the ability of U.S. community colleges to address the challenges of today's workforce. Grants were provided to community colleges to create new or redesigned degree programmes to help workers eligible for training under the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for Workers programme, as well as a broad range of other adults. TAACCCT targeted high priority industries: manufacturing, healthcare, information technology, energy, transportation, and about a dozen other industry sectors. All materials produced by the grant funding were required to be openly licensed using the Creative Commons (CC) Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY). The TAACCCT program also funded the creation of an open library to host the TAACCCT funded Open Educational Resources (OER) called SkillsCommons (www.skillscommons.org). SkillsCommons provides free and scalable access to workforce training materials for all.