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CC China Mainland-Open Education Week Salon

2013-03-10T12:22:54Z

Beibei Sun: Created page with "{{Event |Event Name=CC China Mainland-Open Education Week Salon |Mainurl=cn. creativecommons.org |date=2013/03/16 |end_date=2013/03/16 |Location=Beijing China, |EventType=Sal..."

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CC China Mainland will organize an off-line salon on open education resources and practices as a part of the coming Open Education Week. This salon will be held on the afternoon of March 16th, in Renmin University of China, and is open to everyone who is interested in OER and OEW. Especially presented will be a team of Professor Benjamin Koo and his students working on a OER project "Extreme Learning Process" from Tsinghua University. We will video record this salon and edit a short video for later release online, so that more people around the world will get to know what's happening in the field of OER in China. We will also post an OER archive on our website (cn.creativecommons.org), containing introduction of OER, OEW and relevant resources. Released at same time will be a video on the Tsinghua XLP project, as a latest case study for OER in China.

FOCUS ON CHINA: An Exhibition of CC Licensed Photographs of China (II)

2012-03-03T07:05:37Z

Beibei Sun: Created page with "{{Event |Event Name=FOCUS ON CHINA: An Exhibition of CC Licensed Photographs of China (II) |Mainurl=http://cn.creativecommons.org/2012/02/10/1-34/ |date=2012/03/31 |end_date=2..."

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China is undergoing a major social transformation, and the rapid changes of the society have been brought to the focus of photographers in China. And they have recorded the visual segments, which will become the cultural code to interpret modern China for the future. The second “Focus on China” exhibition of CC licensed photographs of China is collecting the photos which perceive modern China from a unique angle and focus on social development and cultural diversity, and will present them to the public through a professional design of exhibition.

The exhibition “Focus on China” will be held in Beijing from March 31st, 2012 to April 12th, 2012, organized be Creative Commons China Mainland, and co-organized by INTER Art Center & Gallery. All the works of the exhibition will be released under CC license. The collection of works has already begun, and the deadline for submission is March 15th. A panel composed of renowned photography critics and curators will select the works of 30 photographers from the submitted works for the exhibition and issue 3 awards.

The first “Focus on China” exhibition presented CC licensed photos in China to the international CC community during the 2008 CC Summit in Sapporo, and was widely acclaimed. This second “Focus on China” exhibition is part of the art promotion plan of Creative Commons China Mainland, which aims to spread CC license and the idea of legal sharing and remixing in the community of artists, musicians and photographers.

To submit photographs, please contact ccphoto@cn.creativecommons.org.

Forum on Creative Commons and Open Educational Resources by CC China Mainland

2011-11-05T14:19:27Z

Beibei Sun: Created page with "{{Event |Event Name=Forum on Creative Commons and Open Educational Resources by CC China Mainland |Mainurl=http://cn.creativecommons.org/2011/10/19/a-11/ |date=2011/10/17 |end_da..."

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Forum on Creative Commons and Open Educational Resources was hosted by Creative Commons China Mainland on Oct 17th at Renmin University of China in Beijing, supported by OpenCourseWare Consortium.
Experts from relevant organs such as the Center of the Excellent Curriculum Resources (JingPinKe) of Ministry of Education, the National Science Library (NSL), the Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CNIC), the Department of Digital Resources of the National Library of China (NLC), China Education and Research Network (CERNET) and scholars from universities like Renmin University of China, Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiaotong University who are devoted to the open sharing of public educational resources, together with members from the well-known Internet enterprises, like Mozilla Online, Netease, Sina, ifeng, as well as other users and promoters of CC licenses and OER such as Kong Bohua Chinese Medical School, NGO 2.0, Science Squirrel, Social Learn Lab, and YaoRui Education Consulting Co., ltd, HackerSpace, and cyber culture scholars were all present at the forum. The participants conducted an in-depth discussion on a series of topics including how to share educational resources by open licenses, the significance of CC licenses to OER, the domestic OER practice, the experiences in construction of the open platform to share OER, and how to initiate legal sharing culture in the OER domain and promote the prosperity of society and culture. There were almost 70 participants in the forum, which made it a grand get-together in the field of OER.

CC Salon on Internet Information and Sharing Culture by CC China Mainland

2011-11-05T14:15:28Z

Beibei Sun: Created page with "{{Event |Event Name=CC Salon on Internet Information and Sharing Culture by CC China Mainland |Mainurl= http://cn.creativecommons.org/2011/11/02/b-9/ |date=2011/10/31 |end_date=2..."

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On the afternoon of Oct. 31st, 2011, the CC Salon on Internet Information and Sharing Culture was successfully held in the Mozilla Space of the Mozilla Online ltd. in Beijing. The salon was hosted by the Creative Commons China Mainland, aiming at building the offline communication platform for Internet sharing culture with the help of the renowned Firefox Community.
Specially invited to the salon was Prof. Tyng-Ruey Chuang, the lead of the Creative Commons Taiwan, who has long been devoted to the research of Information Science. Prof. Xueyong Gu from Industrial Engineering Department of Tsinghua University was also present and gave a speech on How to Design Integrated Learning Activities Making Use of Open Source Resources. CC Salon Series have attracted much attention from the open source communities in China ever since the first launch, and this salon has invited Dan Liu, the founder of Beijing Open Party, Rachel Zhang, the community manager of Firefox, Ran Zheng, the director of online operation of Science Squirrel, Lei Zou, the system maintenance engineer of Guokr.com and volunteer of Wikipedia, and Justin Wang, one of the founders of the Beijing Maxpace.
The participants gave introductions of their work and made in-depth discussion with each other on sharing culture. This CC salon has promoted the exchange and spread of ideas and thoughts among different domains. The participants all expressed that they had benefited a great deal and would look forward to the next CC salon.