Talk at Latam Commons 2008 - Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Open Education, held in Santiago, Chile in Nov 2008.

1. Latam Commons 2008 Open Education and the Public Domain Ahrash Bissell http://flickr.com/photos/wwworks/440672445/ Woodley Wonderworks CC BY

3. Our mission is to minimize legal, technical, and social barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials.

4. Text What are Open Edu c ational Resour c es? Michael Reschke cba Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.* *UNESCO. 2002. Forum on the impact of Open Courseware for higher education in developing countries. Final report. Paris: UNESCO.

5. available for anyone to use, share, and adapt to suit their educational needs. Michael Reschke cba Open education depends on a high-quality pool of freely licensed resources. OER give learners access to a broad array of knowledge materials...

6. http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/

7. What is different about OER? Most digital media = “stuff you can see online for free” fair-use and educational exceptions OER = “stuff you can adapt and then share for others to build on” license to innovate

8. Nan c y cbn http://flickr.com/photos/pugno_muliebriter/1384247192/

9. Neal Gillis cbn http://www.flickr.com/photos/ngillis/464463694/

10. US Government (educational) resources License variation 2008

11. NASA – US Gov’t Agency

12. Open Library

13. USGS – US Gov’t Agency

15. Stryker W@SP cbd http://www.flickr.com/photos/steven_wong/2440355239/

17. Lawrence Hall of Science

19. Tebndxt UBC Library Graphics http://flickr.com/photos/ubclibrary/2701350667/ Gracias learn.creativecommons.org