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Back to School: Open Courseware as a transition to college
by Jane Park Open Education postAs students around the world return to school, ccLearn blogs about the evolving education landscape, ongoing projects to improve educational resources, education technology, and the future of education. Browse the “Back to School” tag for more posts in this series. One aspect of open courseware* is its draw for potential students who are deciding where…
Copyright Exceptions and Limitations in OER
by Jane Park Open Education postFor those of you interested in knowing how Copyright Exceptions and Limitations (known as Fair Use in the US) might affect open educational resources, there will be a working session on CEL at OCWC Global 2009 in Monterrey, Mexico next month. OCWC Global 2009 is the OpenCourseWare Consortium’s first international conference of its kind. The…
NonCommercial study questionnaire extended to December 14
by mike Uncategorized postCreative Commons is conducting a study on the meaning of “NonCommercial” and you can weigh in by answering a detailed questionnaire on the subject. We’ve extended the deadline for participation to December 14 (originally December 7) as we’re still getting healthy response via all those who blogged about the questionnaire this week. Full disclosure: taking…
Stanford Courses Available via BitTorrent
by Jane Park Uncategorized postBitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, has been embraced by Stanford University in distributing its online engineering courses. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) launched back in September, offering its open courseware under CC BY-NC-SA. Thanks to Ernesto at TorrentFreak for the tip: “While some universities restrict the use of BitTorrent clients, others embrace the popular flilesharing…
CC'ing in SF in 08
by greg Uncategorized postIf all goes according to plan this should be my first post on the Creative Commons blog. I’m going to take this opportunity to introduce myself and tell you why you are going to have see my posts in the future. My name is Greg Grossmeier and I am the Community Development Intern at Creative…
"Attribution Only" as Default Policy—Otago Polytechnic on the How and Why of CC BY
by Jane Park Open Education postA month ago, I blogged about CC’s Role in Open Access at Otago Polytechnic; specifically, on their adoption of CC BY as their default IP policy. For those who don’t already know, Otago Polytechnic made a novel decision last year to essentially reverse the standard policy of most educational institutions. While other university staff must…
"Attribution Only" as Default Policy—Otago Polytechnic on the How and Why of CC BY
by Jane Park Open Education postA month ago, I blogged about CC’s Role in Open Access at Otago Polytechnic; specifically, on their adoption of CC BY as their default IP policy. For those who don’t already know, Otago Polytechnic made a novel decision last year to essentially reverse the standard policy of most educational institutions. While other university staff must…
Shinsei Bank's Methods to be Released as Open Courseware
by Jane Park Uncategorized postJoi Ito blogged yesterday about Shinsei Bank’s plans to release their methods as open courseware in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Shinsei Bank is one of Japan’s great success stories in terms of its innovative approach to business; it was this approach, an adaptation of existing industrial engineering methods to the “design…
ccLearn monthly update – Apr 15
by ahrash Open Education postIt’s tax day here in the USA, but let’s look to more interesting things. I will endeavor to send out an update, perhaps in newsletter form, of key ccLearn activities and plans every month or so, in addition to any announcements or interviews that we post to the site. As we continue to develop our…
Netherlands
by mike Uncategorized postCreative Commons is working with the Institute for Information Law, Knowledgeland, and Waag Society to create Dutch jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Netherlands List Project Leads: Prof. P. Bernt Hugenholtz (Legal Project Lead) and Paul Keller (Public Project Lead) English re-translation of license draft (Version 3.0, PDF). English explanation of substantive…