The African Storybook initiative works with organizations and individuals to facilitate access to storybooks and create website tools for users to create, translate, and adapt them. So far, the initiative has created storybooks in 94 African languages with the support of 30 partner organizations across Africa.

Multiple projects in multiple countries use the website and/or storybooks with the intervention of the African Storybook project team: schools or community libraries serve as pilot sites; governments use the content on their platforms to print and distribute; and partners add to and use content in their literacy development programmes. In addition, the project serves educators who integrate the website tools and storybooks into their pre-service training programs, as well as lecturers in higher education institutions stimulating their postgraduate students to experiment with and research use of the African Storybook. The remixable content also inspired theGlobal African Storybook Project, which translates the stories into other languages with few resources for childhood learning.

截至2016年9月，该计划共包含730本故事书和2754个翻译/改编版本。在短短两年时间里，636803本故事书被下载，平均每月有4800名访客，其中2800名是新访客。此外，“全球非洲故事书计划”已出版26种语言的460种译本。在各种学术和商业网站上重新出版了30至400本非洲故事书。

Wikimedia Indonesia has been working since 2013 to digitize and provide free access to cultural documents in Indonesia, but this year’s agreement with Horison is a landmark in their ability to work with cultural institutions and creators to upload their content and preserve modern Indonesian history using Wikimedia and other cultural content aggregators. The CC Indonesia team worked directly with the editorial board and Wikimedia Indonesia in order to teach them how to upload their materials to Wikimedia as well as educated them about the meaning of CC BY-SA, a permissive license that allows a variety of uses, including remix and commercial use of the archive. Going forward, the team will continue working with Horison to preserve their content.

CC Indonesia’s work proves that ongoing relationships with cultural institutions are vital to the growth of the commons, and that a small group of committed volunteers can do their part to preserve a rich history.

Background photo:Editing Wikipedia for medical school credit – 2016 posterby Amin Azzam, Lane Rasberry, James Heilman, Kingsley Otoide, Jack McCue is licensedCC BY SA 4.0

Supported by the Wiki Education Foundation, Azzam created a course for the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program that encourages and supports medical students in their efforts to edit Wikipedia articles on health-related topics. The impact of these students’ work is described in a research article entitled, “Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia: Final-Year Medical Student Contributions to Wikipedia Articles for Academic Credit at One School,” which was published in Academic Medicine, a top academic medical journal.

Medical and health-related articles on Wikipedia are among the top articles viewed by the general public. The articles edited and improved by the medical students in Dr. Azzam’s course were viewed 1.1 million times during the two months that the students were actively editing the articles. The 42 articles have been collectively viewed over 22 million times over the past year.

Azzam’s work established a course based solely on open educational practice, which resulted in new works being added to the commons and existing works being adapted via Wikipedia.

赞库尔的第一本书《汞合金》(Amalgam)在CC BY-NC授权下于2009年出版。这本书源自她的流行网络漫画，探索贝鲁特和其他地方的生活、工作和艺术。

赞库尔丰富的艺术世界塑造了她的插图，她的作品触及了文化之间的联系。她的新书《贝鲁特-纽约》于今年秋天出版。

“I find that my illustrations allow people to see things differently. It allows them to step outside the status quo.” – Maya Zankoul

República是乌拉圭的主要大学，是公立的，免费的，并向所有学生开放。Colibri项目的领导人希望，开放获取的好处将说服大学从更严格的许可(如CC BY-NC-ND)转向更开放的许可(如CC BY-SA)。

In 2016 alone, the university’s collections have added 6,132 new works, 60 new collections, 3,012,107 searches, and 954,475 downloads.

Background photo:‘Black’ Pyramid of Amenemhet IIIbyVincent Brownis licensedCC BY 2.0

In addition to offering CC licensing, 3D content publishing platform Sketchfab makes it easy for the museum to share posts on social media and WordPress with an embeddable widget. The British Museum’s sculpture collection, which ranges from the iconic statue of Ramses II to a model of the museum itself, leads to wider interaction with cultural heritage and 3D modeling and printing. Because the CC BY-NC license enables downloading of the files, the works can be shared in a variety of manners as well.

The museum has uploaded or remixed over 100 discrete works and models to its collection, which has had more than 200,000 views and 20,000 downloads since its inception.

The UNIR is a global, 100% open online university founded in Logroño, Spain in 2009. The Open Educators Factory platform, a new project by the Vice-chancellorship for Knowledge Transfer & Technology, aims at improving the capacity of university educators to use open approaches in their daily teaching work. By filling out a questionnaire, university professors and lecturers can self-assess their “openness capacity” in terms of open design, open content, open pedagogies, and open evaluation practices. They can also receive personalized guidelines (readings, videos, courses) to further adopt openness in all dimensions of their activities. At the same time, university leaders who want to improve the openness capacity of their teaching staff can evaluate how their staff “position” with respect to different openness dimensions, identifying open education champions who can inspire others to adopt open approaches.

In only a few years, UNIR has graduated over 38,900 students from 79 countries and provided over 1,350 hours of online classes. It employs over 1,000 lecturers around the world and 500 administrative and support experts. The university’s success in its mission, which links education to business, is helping global education embrace openness and innovate openly.

自2014年以来，DatosElSalvador.org已经发布了500多个被企业家、记者和研究人员等重用的数据来源。DatosElSalvador.org是CC萨尔瓦多和开放知识国际萨尔瓦多的一个项目，它在使用开放数据和开放许可的同时，参加了许多关于共同创造的会议和活动，如2014年和2017年的开放知识日。今年，该项目入围了开放数据研究所的开放数据社会影响奖。2016年，团队成员翻译了阳光基金会的文件，在哥斯达黎加的和平技术实验室(PeaceTechLab)展示，并为哈拉帕市和美洲国家组织虚拟校园创建了一系列可视化。

Background photo:Seminar on differential equations and integration theorybyMilan Tvrdyis public domain viaPublic Domain Mark

OpenStax Physics imageby Rice University is licensedCC BY 4.0

The textbook and videos ofOpenStax Physicsnot only create a valuable resource for physics courses, they’re available for everyone. Any student using the resources – and of course, anyone at all, no matter what textbook they use – can use the videos as a supplementary resource. In addition, instructors can utilize the College Physics text to create their own educational materials like thevideo lecturescreated by Barbara Gilbert at Central New Mexico Community College. In these lectures, freely available on YouTube, Professor Gilbert outlines the physics concepts described in the text, works out sample problems, and helps students practice completing formulas and graphs. Professor Gilbert’s videos have almost 4,000 total views.

经过CC by授权，印刷成本不到50美元，在线成本为0美元，《大学物理》自出版以来已经为学生节省了超过3000万美元——仅今年就将近1100万美元。本学年已有110861名学生使用，自出版以来已有306932名学生使用。