Creative Commons

1. AUDAX Computer Science Education
Week
(December 9 - 15, 2013)
The Creative Commons Connection
Kayode Yussuf | Technical Lead | Creative Commons Nigeria

2. • Why is Science Education Important?

3. Life would have being boring without
science and technology

4. Do you doubt me?
Imagine life without the people or items listed below
• Your mobile phone,
• The internet,
• Your doctor,
• Your dish washer/ washing machine
• Your car,
• Airplanes,
• etc

5. • Science has changed our lives and we need to
improve science education……. How?
• Open Access to Education

6. Creative Commons
• Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that promotes
the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free
legal tools.
• Creative Common licenses are free, easy-to-use copyright
licenses which provide a simple, standardized way to give the
public permission to share and use your creative work — on
conditions of your choice.
• CC licenses let you easily change your copyright terms from
the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”
• Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright.
They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your
copyright terms to best suit your needs.

7. Open Educational Resources
• Open Education "...is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge
is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in
particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use,
and reuse knowledge."
—The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• "Open educational resources (OERs) are free and openly licensed educational
materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and other
purposes." (Wikipedia article)
• “OERs are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or
otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an
open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution
by others with no or limited restrictions.“
- UNESCO

8. Creative Commons and Open
Educational Resources
• The Internet and digital technologies have transformed how
people learn. Educational resources are no longer static and
scarce, but adaptable and widely available, allowing
educational institutions, teachers, and learners to actively
participate in a global exchange of knowledge via Open
Educational Resources (OER).
• Creative Commons provides the legal and technical
infrastructure essential to the long-term success of OER,
making it possible for educational resources to be
widely accessible, adaptable, interoperable,
and discoverable.

9. Creative Commons and Open
Educational Resources
• Creative Commons facilitates innovation and collaboration in
education.
• CC enables easier discovery of educational resources on the
web.
• CC enables educational resources to evolve and be improved
through peer and student edits.
• CC offers creators a simple, standardized way to grant copyright
permissions to their work.
• CC enables translation of educational resources into different
languages.

10. How Creative Commons Makes Sharing,
Adapting and Finding OER Easy

11. Creative Common Licenses
License Icon Can someone use it
commercially?
Can someone create new versions
of it?
CC-BY Yes Yes
CC-BY-SA Yes Yes, but the new work must licensed as
Share-Alike
CC-ND Yes NO
CC-NC No Yes, the new work must be Non-
Commercial. However, it can be under
any Non-Commercial License
CC-NC-SA No YES, and they must license the new
work under a Non-Commercial Share-
Alike License
CC-NC-ND No No

12. Before Licensing
• Make sure your work is copyrightable
CC licenses apply to works that are protected by copyright. Copyright protects creative
expression. Generally, works that are protected by copyright are: books, scripts, websites, lesson
plans, blogs and any other forms of writings; photographs and other visual images; some
compilations of data; films, video games and other visual materials; musical compositions, sound
recordings and other audio works
• Make sure you have the rights
Before applying a Creative Commons license to a work, you need to make sure you have the
authority to do so. This means that you need to make sure that the person who owns the
copyright in the work is happy to have the work made available under a Creative Commons
license.
• Make sure you understand how Creative Commons licenses operate

13. How to License Using CC
• Go to http://creativecommons.org/choose/

15. International Academic Institutions using
CC OER licenses
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Case_Studies
Athabasca University, Canada
Cybertesis at the Universidad de Chile
Kenyan School of Open

16. Thank you
Kayode Yussuf
Technical Lead,
Creative Commons
Nigeria Affiliate Chapter
08029730059
kayode@creativecommonsng.org