The Open Education program at Creative Commons works to support CC’s mission through education, advocacy, and outreach on using open licenses and open licensing policies to maximize the benefits of open education (content, practices and policy). We work closely with governments, educational institutions and organizations to open up knowledge for everyone. As we explore new solutions for sharing in 2025 and the years to come, we want to take a moment to reflect back on some of our work in 2024.

• We completed working with Carnegie Math Pathways at WestEd to openly license their Quantway and Statway courses.
• Attended the Hewlett Education Grantee Conference in Atlanta; and delivered keynotes at:
  • the California OER Conference on shifting to community owned and operated open knowledge
  • the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies Library and the Ukrainian Library Association, series “Open Knowledge in Ukrainian Universities: Open Educational Resources”
  • the Arizona Regional OER Conference, titled “In Cyborg Luddite Solidarity.” 
• We were interviewed for the Open Education Global Open Education Voices Podcast. 
• We hosted multiple webinars, workshops and panels for open education including: “Wikidata, OER, and Curriculum Alignment in Ghana, Uruguay and Italy (Recordings English and Español), as well as two workshops entitled “Open Education Platform: Cease and Desist Letters.” 
• CC officially joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance in March of this year, and now the CC legal tools are formally recognized as part of the Digital Public Goods Registry. This is critical for underscoring the public interest benefit of the legal infrastructure of open sharing. In November, CC attended the DPGA Annual Members Meeting in Singapore (program). We led three sessions at the meeting including: Fully Open Public Interest AI with Open Data, DPGs are a Prerequisite to Solve Climate Change (slides), and National Open Licensing Policies for DPGs. The DPGA CEO particularly liked our “open procurement” phrase: “buy what you need, own what you buy, share what you own.” 
• We also participated in the 3rd UNESCO World OER Congress (program / concept note) in Dubai in November.
  • Our CEO Anna Tumadóttir discussed the “Role of Open Licensing in the Future of Education” (slides); Cable Green talked about the importance of open licensing and open policy in the “Global Digital Commons: The UNESCO / UNSDSN OER Overlay Repository;” and Jennryn Wetzler and Cable were rapporteurs for two sessions: “Privacy and Data Protection of Openly Licensed Content” and “Policies Mapping Open Solution Ecosystems” respectively. Lastly, we participated in the UNESCO Dynamic OER Coalition meeting to make final recommendations on the Dubai Declaration on OER – the outcome document of the Congress.

Notably, the CC Open Education Community had several accomplishments across various projects (more on this soon). We invite you to join us there!

In 2025, CC will be working with the DPGA as they explore: open source first (in government decisions), financing for DPGs to enable digital public infrastructure (DPI), DPGs for open data at scale, and high quality earth observation DPGs for climate change. We will also be conducting open education AI consultations to understand the concerns of educators whose work is being used to train AI and how educators are using AI. Additionally, we will work with the UNESCO OER Dynamic Coalition and the Network of NGOs to help national governments implement the UNESCO Recommendation on OER. 

If you’d like to connect with us about Open Education, please reach out to info@creativecommons.org.