Summary of session from OPEN Kickoff Conference for DOL TAACCCT Round 2 Grantees: Jane Park from Creative Commons will give a brief overview of Creative Commons, Creative Commons license use in education, and Creative Common's integral role in the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. She will explain the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) requirement for TAACCCT program grantees, how the CC BY license works, and the free support CC will offer to grantees around application of the license to grantee materials.
More info: http://open4us.org/events/
Adding the CC BY license to your materials (TAACCCT)Jane Park
TAACCCT On! break-out session for all rounds of the U.S. Department of Labor's TAACCCT grant program.
Step by step instructions on how to add the CC BY license notice to your grant-funded materials. In addition to howto’s and pointing to best practice resources, Jane will present examples of round 1 grantee websites and curriculum that have already added the license notice. Note: this session covers marking specific objects with the CC BY license so that the license will be carried with the object across platforms; please attend the MERLOT repository sessions for how the CC BY license will be displayed within the repository.
Whose To Use? And Use As They Choose? Creative Commons Licenses in Wikipedia ...Jill Cirasella
Unlike traditional scholarly journals, Wikipedia and open access journals do not ask contributors to sign away their rights. Contributors to these venues retain the right to copy, distribute, and reuse their own words and works. This presentation takes a careful look at the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (used by Wikipedia) and the Creative Commons Attribution License (used by many open access publishers).
Adding the CC BY license to your materials (TAACCCT)Jane Park
TAACCCT On! break-out session for all rounds of the U.S. Department of Labor's TAACCCT grant program.
Step by step instructions on how to add the CC BY license notice to your grant-funded materials. In addition to howto’s and pointing to best practice resources, Jane will present examples of round 1 grantee websites and curriculum that have already added the license notice. Note: this session covers marking specific objects with the CC BY license so that the license will be carried with the object across platforms; please attend the MERLOT repository sessions for how the CC BY license will be displayed within the repository.
Whose To Use? And Use As They Choose? Creative Commons Licenses in Wikipedia ...Jill Cirasella
Unlike traditional scholarly journals, Wikipedia and open access journals do not ask contributors to sign away their rights. Contributors to these venues retain the right to copy, distribute, and reuse their own words and works. This presentation takes a careful look at the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (used by Wikipedia) and the Creative Commons Attribution License (used by many open access publishers).
In the ICT class, we learned about Creative Commons License, and also watched video. So students make the presentation only using the Creative Commons site. It was hard to make presentation with only one site.
Le balisage sémantique, une opportunité pour votre visibilité webChic & Barda
Google, Microsoft et Yahoo! proposent depuis peu d’améliorer le Web grâce à l’utilisation d’un vocabulaire et d’une syntaxe de balisage des données structurées.
Apprenez en quoi consiste exactement le balisage sémantique et comment vous pouvez l’utiliser dès maintenant pour améliorer votre visibilité web et votre référencement sur Google et les autres moteurs.
Louis Durocher, le président d’Orénoque interactif, a donné le 25 octobre 2012 une conférence intitulée: « Le balisage sémantique, une opportunité pour votre visibilité web – Standards, bonnes pratiques, tendances, etc. » dans le cadre de la 2e édition du Rendez-vous des TIC organisé par Sherbrooke Innopole.
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Thank you, SlideShare, for teaching us that PowerPoint presentations don't have to be a total bore. But in order to tap SlideShare's 60 million global users, you must optimize. Here are 10 quick tips to make your next presentation highly engaging, shareable and well worth the effort.
For more content marketing tips: http://www.oneupweb.com/blog/
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Webinar given on October 17, 2013 (1:00pmEDT / 10:00amPDT) to Roane State faculty and other TA program grantees as part of http://open4us.org.
I give a basic overview of Creative Commons, Creative Commons license use in education, and Creative Common’s integral role in the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. I explain the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) requirement for TAACCCT program grantees, how the CC BY license works, and the free support CC will offer to grantees around application of the license to grantee materials.
Link to recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/nativeplayback.jnlp?sid=2008170&psid=2013-10-17.0955.M.5E7B928FC11E94D844B1405E5A750C.vcr
Finding and Using Open Education Resources (OER): Implementing the Creative Commons CC BY License
presented at National TAACCCT Rounds 2 & 3 Convening
Washington D.C., 4-November-2014
General overview of Creative Commons licenses and Open Educational Resources (OER). I first gave this talk at NYU's Open Access Week and am referencing it for the Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) Orientation: p2pu.org/general/course-design-orientation.
Presentation I gave to U.S. Department of Labor Region 5 TAACCCT grantees (Rounds 2 & 3) on their Technical Assistance convening on 9 July, 2014. Applicable to all TAACCCT grantees.
Puneet Kishor - The new Creative Commons 4.0 Licence – what’s new and why it’...dri_ireland
Presentation given by Puneet Kishor (Manager of Science and Data Policy, Creative Commons) on Creative Commons 4.0 and its application to cultural data.
http://www.ilsharedlearning.org
#IOER
Learn about Creative Commons Licenses, what they are, and how Illinois Open Educational Resources (IOER) uses them.
CC BY license implementation deep dive (OPEN Kick-off)Jane Park
Session description from http://open4us.org/events/kick-off-conference-agenda/:
This session will dive into detail about the CC BY licensing requirement and what it takes to implement the license when hosting content on individual and external platforms. CC staff will go over the license metadata, examples of good implementation, and OER platforms where you can host resources under the CC BY license. We will also demonstrate tools and sites to find existing CC BY or otherwise licensed OER for your project. (SBCTC will share their stories, ie. around Open Course Library.)
Overview: Creative Commons (OPEN Kick-off)Jane Park
Session description from http://open4us.org/events/kick-off-conference-agenda/:
Creative Commons celebrates the 10th anniversary of its license suite later this year. CC’s Education and Technology Coordinator, Greg Grossmeier, and Communications Manager, Jane Park, will give a brief overview of CC license use in education and its integral and infrastructural role in open educational resources (OER). They will also explain the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) and its requirement for TA program grantees.
State of CC Usability and User Research (GS 2019)Jane Park
Slides from the session at the 2019 CC Global Summit in Lisbon, Portugal: https://sched.co/MiWZ
In 2018, CC kicked off an exciting initiative called CC usability. I will present findings from six months of user research, including the high-level goals and human-centered design process we undertook, and how we arrived at 9 key insights. I will also present some of the prototypes we developed, and how the research transformed our approach to the CC Search product. Lastly, I’ll preview what’s ahead in 2019 and gather feedback on ways to more effectively engage the global community in this work.
Slides from the session at the 2019 CC Global Summit in Lisbon, Portugal: https://sched.co/MhKv
CC Search is out of beta and provides access to 300 million images across 19 content providers, with more in the pipeline. The CC Search team will present the current state of CC Search, including a new vision and strategy for 2019, front end features, and how everything works under the hood, both technically and legally, including a new CC Catalog API that provides access to the catalog.
In the second half of the session, we will host a Q&A and discussion on the ways we might internationalize CC Search, either via code, a push API, translations, or integration of image collections from different regions. We’ll also discuss new applications that could be built on top of the catalog itself that go beyond Search.
Finally, we’ll also preview what’s coming next in the roadmap, and how anyone may get involved via the CC developer community and/or usability testing.
Increasing content reuse and user engagement on Open edXJane Park
Here's a talk I gave at the 2016 Open edX conference. Link to session description here: https://2016openedxconference.sched.org/event/61Nc/increasing-content-reuse-and-user-engagement-across-open-edx
Some slides on how museums and related cultural heritage institutions are using Creative Commons to...
1) Share their digital collections
2) Share collection records
3) Engage users and artists, thereby tapping into new communities of stakeholders
...ultimately increasing their impact and reach beyond one entity's website or physical presence.
Note: Photo on Slide 56 is CC BY 4.0 by Frida Gregersen, not SMK.
CC overview and discussion of CC uses in design and culture at Opodz:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-commons-tips-for-design-and-culture-creators-to-discover-build-on-and-share-their-work-tickets-12024295993
CC Tools and Resources for Librarians and LibrariesJane Park
Webinar I gave to librarians across the state of New York part of NY3R (http://www.ny3rs.org/).
Recording from 2 May 2014: http://rrlc.adobeconnect.com/p3wrr1dlws0/.
Abstract:
Creative Commons are a librarian's best friend when it comes to explaining copyright, pointing others to free academic and educational resources, and highlighting reuse and attribution best practices. Learn about Creative Commons -- the organization and its mission; its copyright licenses; its public domain tools, especially CC0 (read CC Zero); how to discover, find and attribute CC-licensed content; and how to license your own content with a CC license. We will also go over a few of the major organizations and institutions who have adopted CC licensing.
Slides for presentation video for the 2013 K-12 Online Conference: http://k12onlineconference.org/?page_id=1415. A talk on School of Open, its origins, and its relevance for K-12 educators. Free online courses, workshops, and training programs for K-12 educators and their students.
CC for the Association of Women in Communications, Santa Barbara ChapterJane Park
Slides from the web presentation I gave to the Association of Women in Communications on October 7, 2013. Recording available here: Recording available at https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/nativeplayback.jnlp?sid=2008170&psid=2013-10-07.1733.M.5E7B928FC11E94D844B1405E5A750C.vcr
Expanding the School of Open: Affiliate ShowcaseJane Park
Speakers: Jane Park, Simeon Oriko (School of Open Kenya), Delia Browne (Copyright 4 Educators, National Copyright Unit of Australia), Maarten Zeinstra (Open GLAM, CC Netherlands), Liuping (eXtreme Learning Challenge, CC China Mainland), Maria Juliana (Copyright for Librarians in Spanish, CC Colombia), SooHyun Pae (P2PU translation, CC Korea)
Description: The School of Open is a community of volunteers focused on providing free education opportunities on the meaning, application, and impact of “openness” in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and science. Creative Commons affiliates will present their School of Open projects and courses, including the School of Open Kenya Initiative, School of Open in German, Copyright for Educators, Open data for GLAMs, and more. We will hold a panel discussion on lessons learned and how to scale the initiative globally in online, offline, and multilingual settings. What do affiliates want to achieve through the School of Open? What are affiliate priorities around “open” education and awareness building?
Creative Commons and Open Educational Resources: A Webinar for TAACCCT progra...Jane Park
From a webinar that took place for TAACCCT program grantees on Tuesday, August 6 at 2pm US EDT/11am US PDT.
Abstract: Have questions about CC BY, OER, or both? Please join Creative Commons (CC) and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) for a one-hour webinar on these topics. Jane Park from CC will give an overview of Creative Commons, the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) requirement, and the free support CC will provide around application of the license to grantee materials. Boyoung Chae from SBCTC will address how to find, create, and manage open educational resources (OER) — drawing on SBCTC’s experience within the Open Course Library. Boyoung will demo tools and tactics for developing and finding OER, including instructional design and managing content. No RSVP is required; simply join the the Blackboard Collaborate room 10 minutes before the scheduled time to ensure you have the appropriate software installed.
Using the CC BY license, Workshop for 2013 OPEN Kick-offJane Park
Summary of session from OPEN Kickoff Conference for DOL TAACCCT Round 2 Grantees: This session will dive into detail about the CC BY licensing requirement and what it takes to apply the license to grantee materials. CC will go over the CC license chooser tool, examples of good license implementation, and content-sharing platforms where you can upload resources under the CC BY license. If enough time and interest, CC will also go over best practices for giving attribution to the creators of CC licensed works, especially as part of a larger resource, such as a textbook or course.
More info: http://open4us.org/events/
Multiplying the impact of online instruction - "The Obviousness of Open Policy"Jane Park
This is the talk I gave to SUNY instructional designers at http://slnsolsummit2012.edublogs.org. It is a remix of Cable Green's talk, "The Obviousness of Open Policy" at http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/sloan-the-obviousness-of-open-policy.
Pecha Kucha introducing the School of OpenJane Park
This is the Pecha Kucha I gave to introduce the School of Open project at 100kin10 conference: http://100kin10.org/. More about the School of Open: http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2011/11/29/the-school-of-open/
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
3. What is CC BY?
What is Creative Commons? What
does it do? How does it work?
Who can use CC?
How is CC used in education?
What support can I expect from
CC?
4. 1. CC BY license requirement
2. Creative Commons overview
3. The CC licenses, esp. CC BY
4. CC & Open Educational Resources
5. Our free services
5. The CC BY license requirement
“All successful applicants must allow broad access for
others to use and enhance project products and
offerings, including authorizing for-profit derivative uses
of the courses and associated learning materials by
licensing newly developed materials produced with grant
funds with a Creative Commons Attribution License
(CC BY).”
http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/applicantinfo.cfm
6. The CC BY license requirement
“This license allows subsequent users to copy,
distribute, transmit and adapt the copyrighted work and
requires such users to attribute the work in the manner
specified by the Grantee.”
http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/applicantinfo.cfm
7. “Only work that is developed by the grantee with the
grant funds is required to be licensed under the CC BY
license.”
http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/applicantinfo.cfm
This requirement applies to:
8. This requirement does not apply to:
Pre-existing copyrighted materials licensed to, or
purchased by the grantee from third parties, including
Modifications of such materials
Works created by the grantee without grant funds
38. 1. CC BY license requirement
2. Creative Commons overview
3. The CC licenses, esp. CC BY
4. CC & Open Educational
Resources (OER)
5. Our free services
46. Easy, Legal, Scalable
Public access to publicly funded
educational materials
Making reuse and innovation
possible
Why CC BY?
47. 1. CC BY license requirement
2. Creative Commons overview
3. The CC licenses, esp. CC BY
4. CC & Open Educational Resources
5. Our free services
48. ✓ Understand CC licenses
✓ Apply CC BY to your materials
✓ Find existing OER to use
✓ Attribute other CC-licensed works
✓ Follow best practices for above
In addition to hosting this conference…
we will help you:
49. ✓ Direct email & phone assistance
taa@creativecommons.org
✓Custom webinars
✓ On-site assistance
✓ http://open4us.org
✓ Your idea here…
We will do this through:
50. Creative Commons and the double C in a circle are registered trademarks of
Creative Commons in the United States and other countries. Third party marks
and brands are the property of their respective holders.
Please attribute Creative Commons with a link to
creativecommons.org
I am here to give you an overview of Creative Commons, especially the Creative Commons Attribution or CC BY license that is a requirement of your grants. Creative Commons, as part of the OPEN Professionals Education Network, will be providing free services to support you in carrying out the licensing requirement.
Our free services are outlined at Open4us.org, along with the OPEN service partners’ services, which you will also be learning about today. We also provide a lot of resources at this website and will be continuously updating it as needs and questions arise throughout the period of your grant. It’s pretty much your one-stop shop for a lot of the support you will need throughout your grant period, and as we’ve mentioned yesterday and today – all our services are free.
But in this session, I’m here to talk specifically about the support Creative Commons is going to offer you when it comes to the CC BY license requirement. And also to answer the many questions you must have about Creative Commons, especially if you have no idea who we are or what we do. So how many of you have heard of Creative Commons before? Before this week? Ok, so a fair number of you. How many of you have no absolutely no clue what Creative Commons is about? Of those of you who are familiar with Creative Commons, how many of you could explain it to us right now, right here? Ok. So these are the main questions I will be addressing in this session today. So What is CC BY? That’s an important takeaway you should all have at the end of today, otherwise I’ve failed you. What is Creative Commons? What does it do? How does it work? Who can use CC? How is CC used in education, especially the open education space – this big OER or open educational resources movement we’ve all been hearing about here and in the news for a long time. And lastly, what support can you guy expect to receive from us, the CC license experts. Now very quickly, I wanted to jot down any more burning questions you have about CC – on this parking lot – so that we can be sure to get to it at the end of my session. And it will also be fun to see how many of them are answered in the course of this session. So does anyone have any additional questions you would like to put on the table now? It’s ok if you don’t have any right now. I’m sure questions will come up, which is why I’ve put post-its and pens at your tables, Feel free to jot down your questions and we’ll get to them during the Q&A at the end. Ok great!
So here’s what I’m going to over today, starting with the CC BY license requirement, because that’s why we’re here. Then I’m going to go over Creative Commons generally, talk about how the CC licenses and how they work, especially CC BY, talk about CC and how it supports the OER movement, and then finally talk about what you can expect from us in terms of support.
So as a reminder, here is the CC BY license requirement as laid out in Wave 2 of the Solicitation for Grant Applications. The requirement states that all successful applicants must allow broad access for others to use… “
Then it goes on to define the license for you, “This license…” So two things the CC BY license does: It gives permission in advance to the public to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt your work. But under the condition that users attribute to the work to the grantee – to you guys. So in a nutshell, anyone is allowed to take the work, translate it, customize it, but they have to give you credit.
Now it’s important to note here that this license requirement only applies to works that the grantee creates with the grant funds received as part of this program. This was a big question with Wave 1 grantees, so the Department of Labor issued a clarification. And all of this, btw, is at this website listed here.
So that means that the license requirement does not apply to: “… “ And it also does not include works created by you without the grant funds, obviously. So for example, if you have a set of textbooks you have purchased from, say, Pearson, for example, and that you’ve been using it for the past several years and it’s been working fine for you and you don’t want to change it – you don’t have to worry about it. The requirement only applies to new materials that you develop with the grant funds.
But with all the materials that the license does cover, you’re probably asking yourself, why? Why is there this requirement. What’s so great about CC BY? Cable touched upon why in his keynote the other day, but if that wasn’t convincing for you, I hope you will be convinced by the end of this session. So I’m going to revisit this question at the end, by which time you will hopefully have a better understanding and appreciation for the CC licenses.
So on to talking about Creative Commons, because Creative Commons is not just the CC BY license. We’re much more than that.
I’m going to talk about these four questions…
Creative Commons is an actual organization, as represented by myself, Cable, Billy, and Paul at this conference. We’re a nonprofit, and we have a website.
If you don’t know it already, its creativecommons.org, and it will take you here – where you can learn more about our mission, learn about our licenses, and explore all the other programs, in addition to the OPEN program, that we are involved in.
But we have one main thing we do across all of our work. And that is simply this: We make sharing content easy, legal, and scalable. And though it might get a little more complicated than that when it comes to the details, that’s really all you need to know about the big picture. We make sharing content easy, legal, and scalable.
And that’s thanks to something called copyright. I’m sure you’ve all seen this symbol, along with this phrase. And I’m sure you’re very familiar with copyright – a set of exclusive rights granted to creators of “original works of authorship.” These rights govern what you can do with the copies of these creative works.
They include the rights to distribute a copy, perform or display a copy publicly, or adapt a copy in some way, such as translate, edit, or remix it. Basically, whenever you want to do something with the copy of a creative work, you are required, under copyright law, to obtain the explicit permission of the creator (or copyright owner). And copyright covers all forms of creativity: literature, music, architecture, and choreography. Basically any creativity that you can set into a tangible medium is covered by copyright.
That includes the educational materials that will be developed as a result of your grant, scientific research, university lectures and videos, and even the emails that you send and receive each day. In a digital world, almost everyone is a creator of copyrighted content, whether you know it or not.
The barriers arise when you actually want to do something with that content, such as share it with others, collaborate with other individuals or institutions on materials, distribute it to your students, make translations or accessible versions.
Under default copyright law, taking those actions can be confusing, restrictive, and time-consuming. You usually have to get your lawyers talking to other lawyers in order to clear permissions to use or share a resource, and those contracts are usually worked out every single time you do so. And it’s not always clear if you can share it under the same terms again in the future. Usually there’s a time limit to the contracts that you work out with other institutions or companies.
That’s where Creative Commons comes in. With Creative Commons, you don’t have to work out a complicated legal solution each and every time. That’s because, with Creative Commons, creators can grant copy and reuse permissions in advance. And these permissions apply for the future as well, so there’s no uncertainty about the availability of what you share 5, 10, 20 years down the line.
So how is that possible? How is CC less complicated than the existing system? Very simply, we offer free copyright licenses that creators can attach to their works. And one of those licenses is the license in your grant requirement, the CC BY license.
CC BY is one of a set of licenses we offer that creators can choose to attach to their works. Each license has different permissions. There are a total of six CC licenses that reflect a spectrum of rights that the creator can communicate to the public. All of the licenses are simple to understand and are the standard licenses used in the US and around the world to grant copyright permissions to your work.
Essentially, all of the licenses are made up of combination of these four conditions, which are attribution, ShareAlike, Noncommercial, and no derivative works. All of the CC licenses have the first condition, which is attribution, including the CC By license. You can think of CC BY as the base license, on top of which a creator might choose to apply one or more of the additional three conditions. For example: - If you want to prohibit commercial uses, you would add the non-commercial condition - If you want to require that downstream users also reshare their adaptation of your work, you would add the sharealike condition - If you want your work to be redistributed “as-is”, you would add the no derivatives condition
You don’t have to worry about the other conditions, since you’ll only be implementing the CC BY license, but I’m giving you this background in case you’re curious, but also if you stumble across resources on the web that are under one of the other licenses. But just know that you’ll be primarily dealing with the CC BY license.
Which says, that anyone may share the work, which means that they can copy, distribute and transmit the work And that they can also remix the work, which means they can customize it, translate, tweak it And they can also make a commercial use of the work But with the condition that anyone who uses your work must give you credit, or attribution.
Here’s the symbol for attribution magnified. When you see this, you can think attribution or CC BY.
Here is an example of an educational textbook that is publicly available under the CC BY license. It says…
So who can use the CC licenses. Anyone can, and it doesn’t matter where they are located in the world. All you have to be is a creator of an original work, though even machines can read and understand CC licenses…
This is possible because of the unique CC license design, which is has three layers. Basically a fancy way of saying that you can communicate the license in three different ways: for lawyers, for regular people like you and me, and for machines.
So this is the actual license, the document that lawyers have drafted and vetted so that the license works like it’s supposed to according to US and international copyright laws. This is the first way the license is expressed, written by and for lawyers.
* But since most of us are not lawyers, we also make the licenses available in a format that normal people can read and understand. * We call this the “human readable” summary of the license, which sums up the most important terms and conditions of the license into non-technical language. * One way to think of it is as the user-friendly interface to the actual license.
* The third and final layer of the license design is the machine-readable metadata. This is what really makes the CC license viable for the Internet age. This small snippet of HTML code summarizes the CC license and associated metadata (such as who the work is authored by) into a format that software, search engines, and other kinds of technology can understand. * Btw, You don’t have to worry about coming up with this code by yourself, because we have a tool that spits it out for you. All you have to do is copy and paste into your webpage.
And once you have pasted the code into your webpage, others can discover your work through search services with CC license filters, such as Google advanced search.
The works that you will discover are not limited to the US, but originate from all around the world. It doesn ’t matter where the author of the CC licensed work lives, because CC licenses work globally. We’ve worked very hard to make sure of that.
So going back to the question – what does Creative Commons do? We make..
And because we’ve made it easy, legal, and scalable, today you can browse more than 500 million works on the web that are shared under CC licenses.
So we’ve covered Creative Commons, what we do, and the CC licenses. Now on to the role CC plays in Open Educational Resources, or OER.
Well based on what you’ve learned, I feel confident telling you that the CC licenses are the backbone of the Open educational resources movement. The licenses are the legal framework that allows people and institutions to share and use educational resources as open educational resources. The OER movement is a movement of organizations and individuals that offer free educational resources under CC licenses to anyone in the world.
The OER movement prides itself on enabling these things when it comes to educational resources. And all of this is possible because of the CC licenses, especially the CC BY license which enables more permissions than our other licenses.
Here ’s one real life example: Collaborative Statistics is an introductory college-level textbook that was licensed under CC BY by its authors Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean.
Because they licensed it openly under CC BY, the textbook now lives on the web, on a platform for OER called Connexions, and it has been adapted for use in community colleges around the country. It is being updated to this day.
All of these initiatives, and more, are using CC licenses to share their educational materials with the world. I’m sure you’ve heard of the more popular ones, such as MIT OpenCourseware, the Khan Academy, and Curriki.
You can learn more about how Creative Commons licenses are being used in education at this website. Where we also link to OER case studies from around the world.
So returning to this question – Why CC BY? I hope the answer to this question is more apparent to you now.
There are lot of things that the CC licenses enable as I just explained, but I thought I’d sum it up in three points. So Why CC BY for this grant program? Well, CC BY is really easy to use, it’s completely legal, vetted by lawyers in many jurisdictions, and it’s scalable for use between institutions and even outside of the US. With CC BY you are also giving back to the public what they paid for with taxpayer dollars– namely, public access to publicly funded educational materials. And not just reading access, but the ability to really build reuse and build on those materials– by teachers, parents, and school districts, nationwide Lastly, the materials will also be available for reuse and value-add by creative entrepreneurs, education start-ups, and traditional businesses – making innovation possible. Cable: Because of all of these reasons, this grant program that you’re now apart is a giant leap forward in how grant funds are managed. It’s a really exciting space you’ve entered into.
So. With all of that, what support can you actually expect from us?
Well for one thing, we hosted this conference. I hope you’re having a great time so far and that our sessions so far have been helpful. But in addition to this conference, we will help you to: Further understand the CC BY license Apply the license to your materials – in fact we’re having a workshop on that later today that you should come to if you want to get a head start Find existing open educational resources that you might want to use for your project Attribute those resources that you find And finally, for all of these things, we’ll help you to follow best practices in marking and attribution.
And here is how we propose to help you: Through direct email assistance. This is the best email to reach us. Through phone assistance, we’re happy to walk you through anything, or schedule a conference call with your team We’re also happy to host webinars where you can invite the rest of your project partners, instructional designers, and faculty members And through our website, where we will continue to update FAQs, resources, handouts, and videos that you need We’d also love to hear from you about the best way we might communicate with you and help you.