Creative Commons
AND EDUCATION
World Academy Forum - Oct 2-3, 2013
Billy Meinke / @billymeinke
What is CC?
Creative Commons
is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
Network
10 years ago
(thing were very different...)
CC was Born
CC Licenses
*CC0 (public domain dedication)
Creators have choice
Some rights can be reserved, but sharing is made easy
commercial use | derivative works |+ their copyright
The Commons
copied | redistributed | revised
& built-upon
Legal + Technical
legal code + human readable deed+ metadata
Examples of CC in Use
MIT OpenCourseware - 2,000+ courses
Khan Academy - 3,000 videos
Wikipedia
- 4 million+ articles
YouTube - 4 million+ videos
Flickr - 250 million images and video
...and more each day.
Definition of OER
(Open Educational Resources)"OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others."
-Hewlett definition
California Community Colleges
Open licensing on all educational resources created with public funds from all Chancellor's Office grants
TAACCCT
(Trade Adjustment Assistance Community & Career Training)
- Funded by the US Dept of Labor
- $2 billion over 4 years
-
All courseware openly licensed (CC BY)
OpenStax College
(Rice University)
Free | Openly (CC) licensed | Peer reviewed
Print on demand at low cost
What if everything were OER?
Expand the Range
Enhance the Relevance
OER Policy Registry
Open Policy Network
Develop materials strategies for open policy
Bring together people and organizations for change
MOOCs
free ≠ open
Summary
CC licenses are the gold standard for open licensing.
We can share and build the future of education together.
Please join us.
creativecommons.org