The document provides information about Creative Commons' certificate program including: - The certificates are being developed by a team led by Paul Stacey to skill up staff in using open content globally and are funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2015-2017. - The certificates will include comprehensive and specialized options in areas like the core, libraries, education, and government. - The design process included workshops, video responses, and hacking existing curricula to develop a subset of core certificates plus specialized required and elective courses. - The development process includes authoring content using existing open educational resources, review, and automated/manual processes to move content from GitHub to the WordPress site and generate output for the

1. Paul Stacey, Ryan Merkley,
Kelsey Wiens, Cable Green
March 9, 2017
Except where otherwise noted presentation licensed using
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
Images by Bryan Mathers http://bryanmmathers.com/

2. Why Needed?
Growth of CC globally. Create a vibrant
usable commons.
From personal to
organizational -
need to skill up internal staff.

3. Funders
Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
Timeline Oct-2015 to Sep-2017

4. What Certificates?
Comprehensive
Specialized

5. Team
Production team:
● Paul Stacey
● Kelsey Wiens
● Alan Levine
● Olga Belikov
● Kamil Śliwowski, and
● David Wiley
Extended team:
● CC HQ
● Consultation - Affiliates,
Government, Librarians,
Educators
● Open source - publicCC Certification Team Photo by Alan Levine licensed CC

6. Design / Development Process
What If? Video Responses
https://certificates.creativecommons.org/what-if/
CC Certificate Workshop Washington DC 11-13-May-2016

8. Selected
Subset of
CORE

9. Plus
Specialized Required
&
Specialized Electives

10. HACK THE CRED - 4 Part Deep Dive
1. Dialogue about who you are, where you work, what your role is, and interest
in the CC certificates. Group those of you interested in the same certificate
together.
2. Walk through each certificate including why needed, who it’s for, skills &
knowledge being gained, duration, method of delivery & participation options,
topic coverage & learning path, and how certificate is earned.
3. Option 1 get hands on with existing curricula & try learning activities including
Quests. Option 2 contributing to authoring a unit still in development.
4. Orientation to the learning technologies and overall learning architecture
Provide comments and recommendations using Hack The Cred Feedback Form.

11. https://certificates.creativecommons.org/

12. https://certificates.creativecommons.org/core/
https://certificates.creativecommons.org/lib/
https://certificates.creativecommons.org/edu/
https://certificates.creativecommons.org/gov/

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Use existing OER
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Review
QA
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markdown
when you
update WP
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manual process
Open source repository and
Internet hosting service with
distributed version control and
content management
functionality. Houses master
version of all certificate content.
CC edits and updates content
here. Content available to others
to fork.
Free and open-source content
management system with a
plugin architecture and template
system. Allows Github content to
be organized and displayed as
educational curricula. WP
templates customize content
display. Acts as master dev
version of what certificates will
look like to public.

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