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CC Talks With: Brooklyn Museum
Cameron Parkins, February 5th, 2010
Regarding openness and sharing, the Brooklyn Museum is an exemplary institution. They are major contributors to The Commons on Flickr , license their online image collection under a CC Attribution-NonCommerical license license, provide API access to this collection, and recently ran a CC-licensed remix contest with Blondie ’s Chris Stein. Needless to say, we were eager to catch up …
No Comments »CA Free Digital Textbook Initiative Launches Phase 2
Jane Park, February 2nd, 2010
Many of you have heard about California’s Free Digital Textbook Initiative that launched last spring, which called for submissions of free digital textbooks in math and science for use by the state’s schools. Of the 16 textbooks submitted last year, 15 are openly licensed under one of the Creative Commons licenses—and all 10 that passed 90% of CA’s state standards are CC licensed.
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CC & OER 2010
Mike Linksvayer, January 30th, 2010
Earlier this week we announced a reorganization of Creative Commons open education projects. The objective of this reorganization is to maximize CC’s impact by focusing our activities in support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement where we have unique leverage and expertise — developing and explaining the legal and technical infrastructure required to make “open” work.
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Planning for sustainable and strategic impact: Creative Commons and open education
Mike Linksvayer, January 25th, 2010
Creative Commons recently celebrated its seventh anniversary, capping an impressive year of success for the organization, including the launch of CC0, our new public domain tool, migration of Wikipedia to a CC license, and compelling new implementations — from CC-aware discovery in both Google and Yahoo! image search, to adoptions of CC licenses ranging from the U.S. White House to Al …
1 Comment »UK moves towards opening government data
Jane Park, January 21st, 2010
In a step towards openness, the UK has opened up its data to be interoperable with the Attribution Only license ( CC BY ). The National Archives , a department responsible for “setting standards and supporting innovation in information and records management across the UK,” has realigned the terms and conditions of data.gov.uk to accommodate this shift. Data.gov.uk is “an online …
2 Comments »New Stanford Electronic Dissertation Program enables CC licensing
Jane Park, January 21st, 2010
Last November, Stanford started accepting digital dissertations for the first time, allowing students to opt out of hundreds of dollars in printing and processing costs. The new program also enabled CC licensing, allowing students to make their work available under a license of their choosing. Of the 60 doctoral students who submitted their dissertations electronically, 52 went with CC …
No Comments »CC Licenses and the Haiti Relief Effort
Cameron Parkins, January 20th, 2010
In the immediate aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake a number of efforts were put in place to connect survivors with their family and loved ones. In all its good intention, this lead to numerous websites that, in the words of Marc Fest of the Knight Foundation , became “silos” of information with no ability to interact. As a result, Fest – who is VP of Communications – sent an …
No Comments »CC Talks With: The Shuttleworth Foundation on CC BY as default and commercial enterprises in education
Jane Park, December 22nd, 2009
Photo by Mark Surman CC BY-NC-SA
For those of you who don’t know Karien Bezuidenhout, she is the Chief Operating Officer at the Shuttleworth Foundation , one of the few foundations that fund open education projects and who have an open licensing policy for their grantees. A couple months ago, I had the chance to meet Karien despite a six hour time difference—she was in …
2010 Digital Media and Learning Competition
Jane Park, December 17th, 2009
HASTAC’s third annual Digital Media and Learning Competition launched yesterday, an initiative supported by the MacArthur Foundation. Last year ’s theme was participatory learning, and CC Learn was awarded a grant for Student Journalism 2.0 —a pilot initiative “engaging high school students in understanding the legal and technical issues intrinsic to new and evolving journalistic …
No Comments »TEDxNYED
Jane Park, December 16th, 2009
You’ve all heard of the TED Conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design), the annual meeting of great minds with amazing 20 minute speeches that share what they’ve been doing with their lives. But not all of you may have heard of TEDx—spinoffs off TED that are independently organized around a central theme or idea.
TEDxNYED is one of those spinoffs—”an all-day conference …
