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A new course on Open Research at the School of Open
by Jane Park UncategorizedThe following is a guest post by Beck Pitt, researcher at the Open University’s OER Research Hub. We are collaborating with Beck and her team to investigate attitudes towards sharing educational resources online and the impact of School of Open courses. Are you curious about what it means to research openly and what benefits it…
"Why Open?" course now open for sign-up
by Jane Park UncategorizedProject 365 #303: 301009 Blink And You’ll Miss It! / Pete / CC BY Another run of School of Open courses is starting up in August, September and October! The first course to kick things off is a second iteration of “Why Open?” “Why Open?” was collaboratively developed and facilitated one year ago in August…
Making the Case for Libraries in Latin America: A New School of Open Course
by Jane Park UncategorizedRead about this course in Spanish on the CC Uruguay blog. ABC of Copyright for Librarians in Latin America, or ABC del derecho de autor para bibliotecarios de América Latina, is a free, online course that launches today as part of the School of Open. This Spanish language course seeks to help librarians and library…
Guest post: What's behind the success of Copyright 4 Educators Australia?
by Jane Park UncategorizedThe following is a guest post by Jessica Smith, National Copyright Officer for the National Copyright Unit of Australia. She ran the Copyright 4 Educators (AUS) course with Delia Browne as part of the School of Open’s second round of facilitated courses in 2013. The School of Open is a community of volunteers focused on…
University of Mississippi to incorporate School of Open’s Wikipedia course
by Jane Park UncategorizedThis is a guest post by Pete Forsyth, organizer of the School of Open’s “Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics & Beyond” course and member of WikiProject Open. The University of Mississippi’s Spring 2014 course “Open Educational Resources and Practices” will include the module “Writing Wikipedia Articles” (aka WIKISOO), which I developed and taught through the…
Help Build the School of Open in German
by johnweitzmann UncategorizedOn the first weekend of March, Wikimedia Germany and CC Germany hosted a workshop around the School of Open’s official launch. Attending were professionals and enthusiasts from various fields, some lawyers but mostly teachers and education managers as well as activists of the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Internet & Society Co:llaboratory in Berlin. School…
Debrief: Sprinting to Build an Open Science Course
by billy-meinke UncategorizedPhoto 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…
Learn how to get your Creative Commons project funded
by Jane Park Uncategorizedby R.B. Boyer / CC BY-SA If you are serious about a Creative Commons project idea, you may be interested in the free, online course, “Getting your CC project funded,” set to run in April. The course consists of a series of workshops and seminars that will take you through the steps from an initial…
P2PU launches 3rd round of courses, with "Copyright for Educators"
by Jane Park UncategorizedThe Peer 2 Peer University, more commonly known now as P2PU by a growing community of self-learners, educators, journalists, and web developers, launches its third round of courses today, opening sign-ups for “courses dealing in subject areas ranging from Collaborative Lesson Planning to Manifestations of Human Trafficking.” P2PU is simultaneously launching its School of Webcraft,…
Joi Ito to run Digital Journalism course on P2PU
by Jane Park UncategorizedJoi Ito is teaching his Digital Journalism course again at Keio University this summer, but this time with a twist. In addition to the traditional semester, where Joi will be teaching within the university, the course will also have an open and online component where anyone may apply to join via the Peer 2 Peer…