Open Licensing

Open Perspective | March 2018 | Open Licensing

Week 4: CC Open Education Platform: what it is, how to join, and why it’s important.

In early 2017, the Creative Commons Global Network (CCGN) completed a consultation process of renewing and reorganizing itself to support a strong and growing global movement. The year-long process resulted in the CCGN Global Network Strategy. Part of the new strategy is to establish defined areas of focus, or “platforms,” which will drive CC’s global […]

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Week 3: How are funders (governments and foundations) using open licenses?

This week explores how public policymakers can leverage open licensing policies, and by extension OER, as a solution to high textbook costs, out-of-date educational resources and disappearing access to expensive, DRM protected e-curriculum. Education policy is about solving education problems for the public. If one of the roles of government is to ensure all of its […]

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Week 2: How to decide which open license(s) to use on your work? Who is using open licensing (international examples)?

  For an overview on open licensing and Creative Commons, please see the Week 1 post.   How to decide which open license to use? Not all education materials available under a Creative Commons (CC) license are OER. Review this chart that details which CC licenses work well for education resources and which do not. […]

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Open Licensing

Week 1: What is Open Licensing? What is Creative Commons? Why is open licensing important to education? Open Education and OER Before we talk about open licensing, let’s review what we mean by open education and OER. Open education is an idea, a set of content, practices, policy, and community which, properly leveraged, can help […]

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