CC Certificate reading content in six languages: Arabic, Burmese, English, Italian, Turkish and Yoruba!
2020 and 2021 Translations
Thanks to CC Nigeria, CC Turkey, and the following individuals, our course content on open licensing and recommended practices for open sharing are available to over 140M Yorùbá, Burmese, Turkish language speakers around the world.
- Adéṣínà Ghani Ayẹni, Open Educational Resources developer, multimedia journalist, digital and language rights activist, professional translator and founder ofYobamoodua Cultural Heritage
- Helen Chuma-Okoro, CC Nigeria Chapter Lead
- Kayode Yussuf, CC Chapter Global Network Council Representative
- Dr. Beck Pitt, researcher and member of the Open Education Research (OER) Hub, Institute of Educational Technology (IET), The Open University (UK)
- İlkay Holt,CC Turkey Chapter Lead
- Orçun Madran, CC Turkey, Global Network Council Representative
Adéṣínà Ghani Ayẹni (also known as Ọmọ Yoòbá) and CC Nigeria completed the Yoruba translation, sharing it with a Nigerian case study at the end of 2020. Through the practice of neologism (coining of new words), Ọmọ Yoòbá introduced new words to describe copyright concepts covered in the Certificate content, which were not previously part of the Yorùbá vocabulary. CC Nigeria organized a team of reviewers, including Yorùbá language teachers and tech experts, to ensure the content’s accuracy. Access the Yoruba translation and country case studyhere.
As part of theTransformation by Innovation in Distance Education (TIDE)project, Dr. Beck Pitt led the collaborative remix of the Creative Commons Certificate programme for Librarians. The course is available in English and Myanmar languages, with accompanying facilitated course materials,here.
Thanks to Goethe-Institut Istanbul’s financial support,CC Turkeywas able to translate CC Certificate course content into Turkish by September 2021. CC Turkey volunteers proofread and localized content, under the coordination of Ilkay Holt and Orcun Madran. The Turkish translations, published here, will有助于缩小土耳其相关开放许可文献的差距。土耳其图书馆员、教育工作者、GLAM专家、资方和其他感兴趣的各方可以自我教育和培训他们的读者，采用使用许可证的良好做法，并使他们的作品和数字收藏更加开放。
Zip file of all CC Certificate modules in Yoruba
Link to all CC Certificate modules in Turkish
Link to remixed CC Certificate modules in Burmese
2019 Translations
Creative Commons proudly highlights the work of CC Network members in Italy and Saudi Arabia. Thanks to CC Network members Paola Corti and Lokesh Rajendran, translations of the CC Certificate content are now available in Italian and Arabic (below). With these translations, over 483 millionadditionalpeople around the world have access to the course content in their first language.
Augmenting the Italian translation is a country case study, entitled ‘General Principles on “Diritto d’Autore” and Related Rights in Italy.’ This case study provides supplementary information on the rules regulating authors’ rights in Italy. All of the works created are licensedCC BY 4.0enabling maximum future use.
How is this possible? Upon successfully completing the CC Certificate*,METID – Politecnico di MilanoProject Manager and Instructional DesignerPaola Corti andNational Center for e-LearningProject Manager,Lokesh Rajendran applied their expertise, creating the first language translations to reach their communities’ needs in Italy and Saudi Arabia. Their work with METID- Politecnico di Milano colleagues (Deborah de Angelis and Laura Sinigaglia) andNational Center for e-Learning’sSaudi Open Educational Content Programteam members (Ahmed Al Mobarak, Saleh Al Khaliwey, Rabah Al Bawardi, Sara Mazen, and Maha Al Sheikh)took between 3-5 months to complete.
Their translation work is an example of what’s possible when educational resources are openly licensed. Creative Commons haslicensed its CC Certificate content CC BYwith the intent of making the content as useful and accessible as possible. TheCC BY licenseenables anyone to create adaptations (also known as derivatives), such as language translations, to better reach their particular audience needs. We laude these Certificate graduates for their fantastic work, and look forward to highlighting future translations of the CC Certificate content! If you are interested in this work, please contactcertificates@www.familygiver.com.
Arabic Translationspublished on SHMS – Saudi OER Network
Unit 1:ما هي منظمة المشاع الإبداعي؟
Unit 2:قانون حقوق التأليف والنشر
Unit 3:البنية التركيبية لرخص المشاع الإبداعي
Unit 4:استخدام رخص المشاع الإبداعي والأعمال المرخصة برخص المشاع الإبداعي
Unit 5 for Educators:المشاع الإبداعي للتربويين
Unit 5 for Librarians: المشاع الإبداعي لأمناء المكتبات
Links to CC Certificate materials in Italian: