Last week the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced that it is extending its open licensing policy to require that all content (such as reports, videos, white papers) resulting from project grant funds be licensed under the most recent Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. From the Foundation’s blog post: “We’re making this change because …Read More“Hewlett Foundation extends CC BY policy to all grantees”
对于那些错过CC沙龙NYC:开放教育的人，我们上传了活动的现场录音到CC点。电视频道。The video recording is split up into three parts in-line with the three sessions to make it easier for you to pick and choose what to watch: Flat World …Read More“Video from CC Salon NYC: Opening Education”
In As Colleges Make Courses Available Free Online, Others Cash In the New York Times writes about how universities are funding OpenCourseWare programs as well as how businesses have sprung up around CC licensed Open Educational Resources (OER) from such programs. Regarding the latter, our CEO is quoted: On a philosophical level, the idea of …Read More“OpenCourseWare economics in the New York Times”
在知识卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析共享，我们总是在寻找新的和有趣的方式来找出有多少CC授权的内容在网上。我们最新的项目，教育项目和组织的开放数据库(或ODEPO)，需要您的帮助!In 2008, ccLearn (now fully integrated into Creative Commons core) conducted a …Read More“Contribute to our open database of educational projects”
In case you haven’t heard, WikiEducator‘s Wayne Mackintosh announced earlier this week that they were joining forces with Connexions “to provide educators with greater freedom of choice to mix and match the best of two OER worlds, namely “producer-consumer” models with more traditional work flow approaches and commons-based peer production.” WikiEducator and Connexions are two …Read More“WikiEducator, Connexions, and MediaWiki join forces in OER Remix Project”
AcaWiki, a project I briefly mentioned in Opening Education–the little things you can do, launches this week. Dubbed as the “Wikipedia for academic research,” AcaWiki’s mission is “to make academic research more accessible and interactive” by “[enabling] users to easily post and discuss human-readable summaries of academic papers and literature reviews online.” Founder Neeru Paharia …Read More“"AcaWiki Increases Impact of Scholarly Research Using Web 2.0"”
As students around the world return to school, ccLearn blogs about the evolving education landscape, ongoing projects to improve educational resources, education technology, and the future of education. Browse the “Back to School” tag for more posts in this series. Today’s predictions about the future of learning might eventually seem as preposterous as early 20th …Read More“Back to School Conclusion: The Open Trajectory of Learning”
by the UNESCO Open Educational Resources Community today. For those of you who don’t know, the UNESCO OER Community is an international online community “[connecting] over 700 individuals in 105 countries to share information and discuss issues surrounding the production and use of Open Educational Resources – web-based materials offered freely and openly for use …Read More“Access to OER Discussion Launched”
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been a tremendous supporter of Creative Commons and our new educational division, ccLearn. The foundation’s newsletter just published a great interview with Catherine Casserly, their Program Officer for Open Educational Resources. Here are a couple excerpts: Aren’t copyright laws an obstacle to all of this? Traditionally, they have …Read More“Catherine Casserly on Open Educational Resources”