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Why Open Science Training matters

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Hanging around with our own kind, we in the open science community might get lulled into thinking that everyone out there thinks like us. In reality, most scientists actually do science instead of worrying about whether or not it is open. However, even though some of their practices align with open science objectives, there is…

CC News: White House Supports Open Access

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Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our newsletter and following us on Twitter. Top stories: Law BooksKolinio Niumataiwalu / CC BY-NC-SA We’re nearing the finish line for version 4.0 of the CC license suite. Find out what’s new in Draft 3 and what issues are stil being discussed. School of Open…

Join us in Buenos Aires for our Global Summit 2013

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Night over the bridge / Luis Argerich / CC BY Finally the announcement you’ve all been waiting for – the Creative Commons Global Summit 2013 will be held from 21 to 24 August in beautiful Buenos Aires, Argentina. This biannual gathering of CC friends and family will be co-hosted by our local Creative Commons affiliates,…

Debrief: Sprinting to Build an Open Science Course

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Photo by Billy Meinke / CC-BY Celebrating Open Data Open Data Day 2013 can be described as a success. Why? Because hundreds of people participated in more than 100 events distributed across six continents all over the world, celebrating open data and all that we can do with it. Here at CC, we planned and…

School of Open will launch during Open Education Week

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As promised, the School of Open is launching its first set of courses during Open Education Week, March 11-15, 2013. This means that all facilitated courses will open for sign-up that week, and all stand-alone courses will be ready to take then or anytime thereafter. The School of Open is a community of volunteers developing…

OERu: Distinctively Open

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While mainstream attention has been focused on MOOCs, the Open Educational Resource university (OERu) has been developing a parallel education offering which is distinctively open. The OERu aims to provide free learning to all students worldwide using OER learning materials with pathways to gain credible qualifications from recognized education institutions. Like MOOCs, the OERu will…

The Net Works Effect: Open Data Day 2013

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There are many ways we can measure the effect of the work we do — count the number of objects licensed with CC licenses, count the number of users who have used CC licenses, count the number of works created by reuse of works licensed with CC licenses, perhaps many other ways. But the one…