Creative Commons and Open Educational Resources - Revision history

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CCID-jane at 21:02, 15 October 2012

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Hamilton Abreu at 03:29, 28 April 2011

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CCID-tvol at 20:35, 6 September 2010

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 '''CC enables easier discovery of educational resources on the web.''' CC licenses provide the legal infrastructure that allows OER to be shared, but there is an important technical component to sharing successfully as well. Creators of OER want to make sure their work is visible to users, and learners and educators need to be able to find resources relevant to their chosen subject. CC has further broadened the impact of OER by embedding each of its licenses with software code that makes the license terms machine-readable—that is—discoverable by a search engine.  In addition to creating licenses that can be indexed by prominent search engines such as Google and Yahoo! CC is also exploring ways to improve search and discovery of OER by helping to build a common metadata vocabulary for educational resources via the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative ([[LRMI]]).</div>
-These are just a few examples of the kinds of innovative educational activity that CC’s legal and technical tools have enabled–not to mention opening up opportunities for new business models in educational publishing (e.g., [http://ck12.org/flexr/ CK-12 Foundation] and [http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ Flat World Knowledge], that publish textbooks and scholarly journals under CC licenses), new methods for professional development (e.g., the [http://siyavula.org.za/about/ Siyavula project], helping South African teachers learn to share and collaborate around new curricular standards) and democratizing teaching and learning (e.g., [http://p2pu.org/ Peer 2 Peer University], a grassroots education project for peers by peers).</div>
+These are just a few examples of the kinds of innovative educational activity that CC’s legal and technical tools have enabled–not to mention opening up opportunities for new business models in educational publishing (e.g., [http://ck12.org/flexr/ CK-12 Foundation],  [http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ Flat World Knowledge] and [http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/ Bloomsbury Academic], that publish textbooks and scholarly journals under CC licenses), new methods for professional development (e.g., the [http://siyavula.org.za/about/ Siyavula project], helping South African teachers learn to share and collaborate around new curricular standards) and democratizing teaching and learning (e.g., [http://p2pu.org/ Peer 2 Peer University], a grassroots education project for peers by peers).</div>
 ==How Creative Commons Makes Sharing, Adapting and Finding OER Easy==

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 '''CC enables easier discovery of educational resources on the web.''' CC licenses provide the legal infrastructure that allows OER to be shared, but there is an important technical component to sharing successfully as well. Creators of OER want to make sure their work is visible to users, and learners and educators need to be able to find resources relevant to their chosen subject. CC has further broadened the impact of OER by embedding each of its licenses with software code that makes the license terms machine-readable—that is—discoverable by a search engine.  In addition to creating licenses that can be indexed by prominent search engines such as Google and Yahoo! CC is also exploring ways to improve search and discovery of OER by helping to build a common metadata vocabulary for educational resources via the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative ([[LRMI]]).</div>
-These are just a few examples of the kinds of innovative educational activity that CC’s legal and technical tools have enabled–not to mention opening up opportunities for new business models in educational publishing (e.g., [http://ck12.org/flexr/ CK-12 Foundation], and [http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ Flat World Knowledge], which publish textbooks and scholarly journals under CC licenses), new methods for professional development (e.g., the [http://siyavula.org.za/about/ Siyavula project], helping South African teachers learn to share and collaborate around new curricular standards) and democratizing teaching and learning (e.g., [http://p2pu.org/ Peer 2 Peer University], a grassroots education project for peers by peers).</div>
+These are just a few examples of the kinds of innovative educational activity that CC’s legal and technical tools have enabled–not to mention opening up opportunities for new business models in educational publishing (e.g., [http://ck12.org/flexr/ CK-12 Foundation] and [http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ Flat World Knowledge], that publish textbooks and scholarly journals under CC licenses), new methods for professional development (e.g., the [http://siyavula.org.za/about/ Siyavula project], helping South African teachers learn to share and collaborate around new curricular standards) and democratizing teaching and learning (e.g., [http://p2pu.org/ Peer 2 Peer University], a grassroots education project for peers by peers).</div>
 ==How Creative Commons Makes Sharing, Adapting and Finding OER Easy==

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 '''CC enables easier discovery of educational resources on the web.''' CC licenses provide the legal infrastructure that allows OER to be shared, but there is an important technical component to sharing successfully as well. Creators of OER want to make sure their work is visible to users, and learners and educators need to be able to find resources relevant to their chosen subject. CC has further broadened the impact of OER by embedding each of its licenses with software code that makes the license terms machine-readable—that is—discoverable by a search engine.  In addition to creating licenses that can be indexed by prominent search engines such as Google and Yahoo! CC is also exploring ways to improve search and discovery of OER by helping to build a common metadata vocabulary for educational resources via the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative ([[LRMI]]).</div>
-These are just a few examples of the kinds of innovative educational activity that CC’s legal and technical tools have enabled–not to mention opening up opportunities for new business models in educational publishing (e.g., [http://ck12.org/flexr/ CK-12 Foundation], [http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ Flat World Knowledge], and [http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/index.html Bloomsbury Academic], which publish textbooks and scholarly journals under CC licenses), new methods for professional development (e.g., the [http://siyavula.org.za/about/ Siyavula project], helping South African teachers learn to share and collaborate around new curricular standards) and democratizing teaching and learning (e.g., [http://p2pu.org/ Peer 2 Peer University], a grassroots education project for peers by peers).</div>
+These are just a few examples of the kinds of innovative educational activity that CC’s legal and technical tools have enabled–not to mention opening up opportunities for new business models in educational publishing (e.g., [http://ck12.org/flexr/ CK-12 Foundation], and [http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ Flat World Knowledge], which publish textbooks and scholarly journals under CC licenses), new methods for professional development (e.g., the [http://siyavula.org.za/about/ Siyavula project], helping South African teachers learn to share and collaborate around new curricular standards) and democratizing teaching and learning (e.g., [http://p2pu.org/ Peer 2 Peer University], a grassroots education project for peers by peers).</div>
 ==How Creative Commons Makes Sharing, Adapting and Finding OER Easy==

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-<div style="line-height:1.5em; margin-bottom:1.25em;text-align:justify;">'''CC is a global standard.''' CC licenses are the most widely used open content licenses in the world, and have been legally and linguistically adapted to more than [http://creativecommons.org/international 50 jurisdictions worldwide]. Government bodies, universities, and libraries around the world leverage CC licenses to increase access to, and the impact of, their educational resources. For example, see [http://www.eun.org/web/guest/home European Schoolnet], a group of 31 Ministries of Education in the EU making educational resources available under CC BY, [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ The OpenCourseWare Consortium], a collaboration of over 200 universities world-wide making high quality courses available under CC licenses, and [http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/home eIFL.net], partnering with national library consortia to educate librarians about CC.<br /><br />
+<div style="line-height:1.5em; margin-bottom:1.25em;text-align:justify;">'''CC is a global standard.''' CC licenses are the most widely used open content licenses in the world, and have been legally and linguistically adapted to more than [http://creativecommons.org/international 70 jurisdictions worldwide]. Government bodies, universities, and libraries around the world leverage CC licenses to increase access to, and the impact of, their educational resources. For example, see [http://www.eun.org/web/guest/home European Schoolnet], a group of 31 Ministries of Education in the EU making educational resources available under CC BY, [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ The OpenCourseWare Consortium], a collaboration of over 200 universities world-wide making high quality courses available under CC licenses, and [http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/home eIFL.net], partnering with national library consortia to educate librarians about CC.<br /><br />
 '''CC licenses are available in three different formats.''' The first is a ''human-readable'' deed that simplifies the terms of each license into a few universal icons and non-technical language. The second is the ''lawyer-readable'' terms of the license itself, which have been vetted by a global team of legal experts. And the final layer is the ''machine-readable'' code enables search and discovery.</div>

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 '''CC enables educational resources to evolve and be improved through peer and student edits.''' CC licensed OER are living documents that can be built upon and improved not only by authors and publishers, but by colleagues and students as well. For example, when a University of Michigan professor was dissatisfied with currently available textbooks in his area of computer science, [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20559 he was able to] use an existing openly licensed textbook as the basis for developing [https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib//csev/trunk/pyinf/tex/book.pdf a new book] that met his needs, by changing the overall focus of the book, adding his own original content, and restructuring the original text.
-'''CC enables easier discovery of educational resources on the web.''' CC licenses provide the legal infrastructure that allows OER to be shared, but there is an important technical component to sharing successfully as well. Creators of OER want to make sure their work is visible to users, and learners and educators need to be able to find resources relevant to their chosen subject. CC has further broadened the impact of OER by embedding each of its licenses with software code that makes the license terms machine-readable—that is—discoverable by a search engine.  In addition to creating licenses that can be indexed by prominent search engines such as Google and Yahoo!, CC is also exploring ways to provide scalable search and discovery for educational resources on the web via its search prototype, [http://discovered.creativecommons.org/search/ DiscoverEd].</div>
+'''CC enables easier discovery of educational resources on the web.''' CC licenses provide the legal infrastructure that allows OER to be shared, but there is an important technical component to sharing successfully as well. Creators of OER want to make sure their work is visible to users, and learners and educators need to be able to find resources relevant to their chosen subject. CC has further broadened the impact of OER by embedding each of its licenses with software code that makes the license terms machine-readable—that is—discoverable by a search engine.  In addition to creating licenses that can be indexed by prominent search engines such as Google and Yahoo! CC is also exploring ways to improve search and discovery of OER by helping to build a common metadata vocabulary for educational resources via the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative ([[LRMI]]).</div>
 These are just a few examples of the kinds of innovative educational activity that CC’s legal and technical tools have enabled–not to mention opening up opportunities for new business models in educational publishing (e.g., [http://ck12.org/flexr/ CK-12 Foundation], [http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ Flat World Knowledge], and [http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/index.html Bloomsbury Academic], which publish textbooks and scholarly journals under CC licenses), new methods for professional development (e.g., the [http://siyavula.org.za/about/ Siyavula project], helping South African teachers learn to share and collaborate around new curricular standards) and democratizing teaching and learning (e.g., [http://p2pu.org/ Peer 2 Peer University], a grassroots education project for peers by peers).</div>

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-<div style="line-height:1.5em; margin-bottom:1.25em;text-align:justify;">'''CC is a global standard.''' CC licenses are the most widely used open content licenses in the world, and have been legally and linguistically adapted to more than [http://creativecommons.org/international 50 jurisdictions worldwide]. Government bodies, universities, and libraries around the world leverage CC licenses to increase access to, and the impact of, their educational resources. For example, see [http://www.eun.org/web/guest/home European Schoolnet], a group of 31 Ministries of Education in the EU making educational resources available under CC-BY, [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ The OpenCourseWare Consortium], a collaboration of over 200 universities world-wide making high quality courses available under CC licenses, and [http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/home eIFL.net], partnering with national library consortia to educate librarians about CC.<br /><br />
+<div style="line-height:1.5em; margin-bottom:1.25em;text-align:justify;">'''CC is a global standard.''' CC licenses are the most widely used open content licenses in the world, and have been legally and linguistically adapted to more than [http://creativecommons.org/international 50 jurisdictions worldwide]. Government bodies, universities, and libraries around the world leverage CC licenses to increase access to, and the impact of, their educational resources. For example, see [http://www.eun.org/web/guest/home European Schoolnet], a group of 31 Ministries of Education in the EU making educational resources available under CC BY, [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ The OpenCourseWare Consortium], a collaboration of over 200 universities world-wide making high quality courses available under CC licenses, and [http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/home eIFL.net], partnering with national library consortia to educate librarians about CC.<br /><br />
 '''CC licenses are available in three different formats.''' The first is a ''human-readable'' deed that simplifies the terms of each license into a few universal icons and non-technical language. The second is the ''lawyer-readable'' terms of the license itself, which have been vetted by a global team of legal experts. And the final layer is the ''machine-readable'' code enables search and discovery.</div>
 ==The Success of OER Depends on Legal and Technical Interoperability==
-Find more information about CC, including helpful [[Frequently Asked Questions|FAQs]] and [http://creativecommons.org/videoes videos] at [http://creativecommons.org creativecommons.org].</div>
+Note: One of the fundamental design principles of all CC licenses is that of granting permission in advance to the public, without the need for users of the work to seek permission first. This feature is core to the success of OER and sharing. We [[Frequently_Asked_Questions#Can_I_change_the_license_terms_or_conditions.3F|actively discourage]] practices that interfere with or undermine that feature, particularly when those policies expressly require that users or some subset of users must ask permission first. Read more about the [[Modifying_the_CC_licenses|benefits]] of this feature.
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	<div style="font-size:125%; line-height:1.75em; margin-bottom:1.25em;text-align:justify;">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'''.</div>		<div style="font-size:125%; line-height:1.75em; margin-bottom:1.25em;text-align:justify;">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'''.</div>