Dear Mr. President-elect, First, I’d like to offer my sincere congratulations to you and to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. This has been such a difficult year for so many around the world, and in this time of extreme polarization it is encouraging to hear you both talk about bringing people together to meet our common …Read More“An Open Letter to President-elect Biden”
We’re happy to announce that our collaboration with the American Library Association (ALA) to create the print companion to the CC Certificate has finally come to fruition! The book, Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians, is now published under CC BY and offers an additional way to access the openly licensed CC Certificate content. It’s …Read More“Our Book, “Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians,” Is Now Available”
The UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Recommendation was unanimously adopted on November 25 by 193 UNESCO member states at the 40th UNESCO General Conference. This milestone offers a unique opportunity to advance open education around the world. Why does it matter? This Recommendation is an official UNESCO instrument that gives national governments a specific list …Read More“NGO Network to Support Implementation of the UNESCO OER Recommendation”
As part of the drafting committee, Creative Commons (CC) fully supports the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER) on which the member states will vote at the 40th session of the UNESCO General Conference in November. We laud the multitude of national governments and open education experts engaged in the development of this international …Read More“We Support the UNESCO Recommendation on OER”
知识共享卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析全球网络(CCGN)是一个充满激情的社区，它点亮了我们充满活力的、合作的全球共享资源。CC网络对我们的共享使命也至关重要。为了支持CC网络成员，我们推出了一个CC证书课程的奖学金项目。Today, we are proud to highlight our first 10 CC Certificate Scholarship …Read More“Meet Our First CC Certificate Scholarship Recipients!”
The fifth Regional OER Consultation for the Latin America and Caribbean region was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 3rd-4th April. The event was in preparation for the 2nd OER World Congress that will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in September of this year. The meeting was organized by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), alongside partners UNESCO, …Read More“Mainstreaming OER in Latin America and The Caribbean”
In March we hosted the second Institute for Open Leadership. In our summary of the event we mentioned that the Institute fellows would be taking turns to write about their open policy projects. This week’s post is from Dr. Jane-Frances Agbu from the National Open University of Nigeria. We also interviewed Dr. Agbu about her …Read More“Pondering the Future of Open Education in Nigeria”
In March we hosted the second Institute for Open Leadership. In our summary of the event we mentioned that the Institute fellows would be taking turns to write about their open policy projects. This week’s post is from Fiona MacAlister, OER Specialist at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. I was privileged to attend the …Read More“Cultivating a Culture of Knowledge Sharing”
In March we hosted the second Institute for Open Leadership, and in our summary of the event we mentioned that the Institute fellows would be taking turns to write about their open policy projects. By way of some background, I am currently the digital publishing manager at the African branch of Cambridge University Press (CUP), …Read More“The changing role of the publisher in the age of plenty”
The guest post below was written by Peter B. Kaufman of Intelligent Television. — When the Open Courseware movement first started – its Big Bang probably took place in mid-June 2001, when Mellon Foundation president William G. Bowen, Hewlett Foundation’s president Paul Brest, and MIT president Charles M. Vest announced the initiative at MIT – …Read More“Redefining Open: MOOCs and Online Courseware in the Age of Creative Commons and Wikipedia”
