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Category: Open Education
CC Certificate Alumni Making a Global Impact
by Shanna Hollich CC Certificate, Open Education, PolicyLaunched in 2018, the Creative Commons Certificate program has trained and graduated nearly 1800 people from 66 countries. The Certificate program offers in-depth courses about CC licenses, open practices, and the ethos of the Commons. Our staff is constantly inspired by our community of Certificate alumni, accomplishing incredible things. In this interview, we were delighted…
The CC Open Education Platform Funds Five New Community Projects
by Jennryn Wetzler Community, Open EducationThanks to the CC Open Education Platform community’s time proposing projects and voting on the proposals, we now have five winning ideas to advance open education globally. CC will fund five projects in 2024, spanning Brazil, Ghana, Nepal, and Nigeria. The CC Open Education Platform is also funding ongoing global community work supporting the UNESCO…
Learn More with Creative Commons: Recent Training Highlights
by Jennryn Wetzler, Shanna Hollich CC Certificate, Open EducationIn this blog post, we share some highlights and recordings from recent trainings offered by the Creative Commons Learning and Training team.
Creative Commons and University of Nebraska at Omaha Partner on a Microcredential Course
by Jennryn Wetzler, Craig Finlay CC Certificate, Open EducationCreative Commons is proud to announce the launch of “Introduction to Open Educational Resources,” our first professional development microcredential course and partnership with the University of Nebraska at Omaha, commencing on 31 May. This microcredential pilot started with one CC Certificate alumnus’s enthusiasm for open education. Craig Finlay, OER and STEM Librarian at the University…
CC Open Education Platform Activities: 2023 in Review
by Jennryn Wetzler, Werner Westermann, Tetiana Kolesnykova, Dan McGuire, Dr. Suma Parahakaran, Lisa Di Valentino, John Okewole, Fernando Daguanno About CC, Community, Open Education, Open KnowledgeThe CC Open Education community had a busy 2023! Five project teams, spanning nine countries, worked on open education projects ranging from developing STEAM, interactive, and climate change-related OER, to international curriculum alignment and translation work. Community members also worked on multimedia resources supporting the UNESCO Recommendation on OER, and presented in CC’s biannual Open…
More California Community Colleges Get CC Certified!
by Shanna Hollich, Jennryn Wetzler CC Certificate, Events, Open EducationThis December, Creative Commons led a CC Certificate Bootcamp, or condensed Certificate training, for faculty and staff from 16 different California Community Colleges implementing Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) degree programs. This marked the second CC Bootcamp for California Community Colleges after the California legislature invested $115 million to expand ZTC degrees and the use of…
CC Certificate Translations in Slovak, Bengali, and localized French
by Jennryn Wetzler, Shanna Hollich CC Certificate, Community, Open Education, UncategorizedSide by Side, by Anina Takeff, licensed Creative Commons-Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA) As we end 2023, we want to showcase the incredible work of CC community members to translate the CC Certificate content. Thanks to 21 volunteers this year and numerous volunteers in the past, the reading content of our CC Certificate training is now…
How CC Will Advance Open Licensing Understanding Within 25 California Community Colleges
by Creative Commons Open EducationCrossposted with permission from The Michelson 20MM Foundation 23 Aug 2023 blog post. Creative Commons licenses enable much of the open content across the arts, sciences, and academia, including open educational resources (OER). Creative Commons (CC) offers CC Certificate courses, or training on CC licensing and open tools, which have become a key tool for…
CC Open Education Platform Activities 2023
by Jennryn Wetzler Open EducationThis post was prepared collaboratively by Jennryn Wetzler, Werner Westermann, Lisa Di Valentino, Dr. Suma Parahakaran, Tetiana Kolesnykova, Paola Corti, Dan McGuire, and Fernando Daguanno. In February and March, the CC Open Education Platform community voted on five winning ideas to advance open education globally. Five project teams, spanning Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Italy, Malaysia,…
Creative Commons Open Education Platform: 2022 in Review
by Cable Green, Jennryn Wetzler Open EducationThe Creative Commons Open Education Team is pleased to provide a snapshot of progress made toward opening access and equity in education, through a look at our collective efforts in 2022.1 We laud the CC open education community for its important work throughout 2022. CC and community members’ open education efforts in 2022 included, but…