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The School of Open is a collaboration between Creative Commons and P2PU (Peer 2 Peer University). Its aim is to provide easily digestible educational exercises, resources, and professional development courses that help individuals and institutions learn about and employ open tools, such as the CC licenses.  
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===Website (beta): http://schoolofopen.org===
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===Follow #schoolofopen hashtag on social media===
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''This page also available as a handout ([http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/2/26/School_of_Open_One_pager.pdf pdf])''
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==What?==
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The School of Open will provide online educational resources and professional development courses on the meaning and impact of “openness” in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and beyond. Individuals and organizations will learn how to use free technology and tools, such as Creative Commons licenses, to achieve their goals. Participants will also learn how to overcome barriers they run into everyday due to legal or technical restrictions.
  
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== Announcements ==
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==Why?==
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* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33041 Help us build a School of Open]
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Universal access to and participation in research, education, and culture is made possible by openness, but not enough people know what it means or how to take advantage of it. We hear about Open Source Software, Open Educational Resources, and Open Access… But what are these movements, who are their communities, and how do they work? Most importantly—how can they help me?
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* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33385 School of Open Virtual Sprint]
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==Learning about “open.”==
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The School of Open will offer courses on the meaning and application of “open” on the web and in offline environments. Courses will be powered by mentors and learners like you, and will be organized into study groups that leverage free and open resources and tools for collaboration. Artists, educators, learners, scientists, archivists, and other creators already improve their fields via the use of open tools and materials. So can you. A long-term objective for the School of Open is to offer certification on the skills learned, so that you can help others take full advantage of what the digital age has to offer. Current courses include [https://p2pu.org/en/groups/teach-someone-something-with-open-content/ Teach someone something with open content] and [https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/ Get CC Savvy].
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==Who is involved?==
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The School of Open is coordinated by [http://creativecommons.org Creative Commons] and [http://p2pu.org P2PU], an active peer learning platform and community for developing and running free online courses. Volunteers, individual creators and organizational representatives, can design courses for peer learning in study groups or for facilitation by a subject expert.
  
 
== Get Involved ==
 
== Get Involved ==
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* Sign up for [http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open-announce Announcements]
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There are many ways you can get started. Here are a few:
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* Join the [http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open Discussion]
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*Sign up for these mailing lists:
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* Follow everything and anything to do with the School of Open at the [http://info.p2pu.org/tag/school-of-open/ P2PU blog]
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**school-of-open@googlegroups.com ([http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open Discussion])
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* Follow the #schoolofopen hashtag on social media
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**school-of-open-announce@googlegroups.com ([http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open-announce Announcements])
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*Check out or improve an existing [https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/ School of Open course]
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*[https://p2pu.org/en/groups/create/ Create] a course with support from our growing [http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open online community].
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*Help spread the word! Print and hand out copies of this page: [[File:School_of_Open_One_pager.pdf]]
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== Running the School of Open openly ==
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In the spirit of all it encompasses, the School of Open is being run as an open community project—which means that everything is being documented openly, decisions are made transparently, and the community has input in making those decisions. Here a few of the things we are doing to ensure maximum openness:
  
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=== Create courses ===
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*Holding an [http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-call open community call] once a month for those working on courses or who want to shape the future of the project
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* Test and give feedback on a [https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/ School of Open course]
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*Public discussion at school-of-open@googlegroups.com ([http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open join here])
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* Have an idea for a course? Add it to the [http://pad.p2pu.org/p/Open_Courses pad] and shoot a note to the [http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open discussion list] to find others to build it with you. Start [https://p2pu.org/en/groups/create/ creating]!
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*Enabling collaborative editing and feedback on core documents using etherpads, including:
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**A  [http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-philosophy draft philosophy] for the School
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**[http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-guidelines Draft guidelines] for creating a School of Open course
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**Evolving [http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-course-review course review process] for getting it featured
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*Documenting all progress at the [http://info.p2pu.org/tag/school-of-open/ P2PU blog]
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*Adding all events to a [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=p2pu.org_cpsf6vgs35a5rqq2vn8lul3urs%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz public Google calendar] and [[#Roadmap|Roadmap]]
  
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=== Core documents ===
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==Questions or comments?==
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Our core documents are evolving and open for improvement/feedback:
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Join the [http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open discussion list] and send a note to [mailto:school-of-open@googlegroups.com school-of-open@googlegroups.com]. It’s Open!
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* Review our draft philosophy, aka description for a future School of Open /about page. Suggest improvements at the [http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-philosophy pad].
 
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* Review our draft guidelines, helpful for determining what is and is not a School of Open course, but also ideally useful to walk through for new “open” course creators. Give us feedback at the [http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-guidelines pad].
 
  
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== Why is CC doing this? ==
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If you have a private question, email the [http://creativecommons.org/staff#janepark Project Manager] at janepark at creativecommons dot org.
  
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* Universal access to and participation in research, education, and culture is made possible by openness, but not enough people know what it means or how to take advantage of it. One solution: peer learning on what “open” means and how it applies to you, powered by mentors and learners like you, self-organized into study groups which themselves leverage existing “open” learning materials. We imagine artists, educators, learners, scientists, archivists, and other creators improving their fields via the use of open tools and materials. Eventually, we’d like to offer certification around “open” skills that result in the spread of openness.
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== Roadmap ==
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* The CC community has often expressed a need for more community/communications support regarding best practices, explanatory materials, help generally in convincing entities (whether GLAMs, IGOs, governments) to use CC and other open tools. The School of Open is a great place for this.
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===September 2011===
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* Community members have also expressed priorities regarding open advocacy and policy activities. The School of Open could be one venue for open advocates to work together to develop and provide these resources.
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*'''[[Global_Summit_2011|CC Global Summit]]''': Concept for a School of Open gains support from CC Affiliates and Summit participants as part of the CC Education Strategy Workshop.
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* In regards to content that Creative Commons itself will develop: We want to provide better education around CC tools, and we would love community appropriation and adaptation/translation of these resources.
 
  
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== Working with P2PU ==
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===November 2011===
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*'''[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Festival2011 Mozilla Festival: Media, Freedom, & the Web]''': School of Open concept tested at the festival, resulting in [http://info.p2pu.org/2011/11/29/the-school-of-open/ five prototype courses] in collaboration with workshop participants as part of a three-hour design challenge.
  
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School of Open leverages P2PU’s active peer learning platform for developing courses, challenges, and study groups. The P2PU community has been a part of the open education movement since 2009 and promoted openness to the education sector. P2PU ran a number of successful courses on licensing for educators, which will become part of the School of Open. All peer-produced resources on p2pu.org are defaulted under CC BY-SA, the same license as Wikipedia.
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===June 2012===
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*'''[http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33041 Initial Call for Participation]''': Announced on the CC blog, the CC affiliates mailing list, P2PU and CC community mailing lists, other open/free culture mailing lists, and broadcast via CC and P2PU social media channels.
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*'''[[Africa/CC_Africa_Regional_Meeting_2012|CC Africa Regional Meeting]]''': Discussion on School of Open held at CC's first regional meeting in Africa. Initial interest in the project, but no immediate capacity for involvement yet.
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===July 2012===
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* '''[http://info.p2pu.org/2012/08/07/berlin-is-over-school-of-open-is-not/ School of Open working meeting]''': Part P2PU's month-long pop-up office in Berlin. Project Manager and P2PU community members start mapping and developing some key components of the School over two weeks. Events: Virtual sprint (24 July), School of Open challenges workshop (26 July), Open Web Challenges Hackjam w/Mozilla (28 July).
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** ''4 participants committed to develop 7 courses in Open Licensing and Education from this meeting.''
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===August 2012===
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* '''Development of School and course structures'''
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===September 2012===
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*'''Three courses ready for testing''': [https://p2pu.org/en/groups/teach-someone-something-with-open-content/ (1)] Teach someone something with open content; [https://p2pu.org/en/groups/teach-someone-something-with-open-content-part-2/ (2)] Teach someone something with open content, part 2; [https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/ (3)] Get CC Savvy
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*'''[http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/Common_misconceptions School of Open breakout at CC Staff In-Town-Week]''': Intro to School of Open and P2PU course structure, with a large group brainstorm around the most common misconceptions staff run into when talking to people about CC. In small groups, staff found resources to address six common misconceptions shared those resources. The resulting resources and list of misconceptions will inform CC related courses at School of Open going forward.
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* '''[[Open_Knowledge_Festival|Open Knowledge Festival]] and [[Europe/Meetings/2012/RM|CC Europe Regional Meeting]]''': OKFestival’s Open Research and Education track includes an “Open Peer Learning: School of Open and School of Data” workshop to engage the OKFN, CC, and European open communities. It will take place right before the CC Europe regional meeting to allow CC affiliates to participate. ([http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34360 Blog post])
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* '''Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community'''
  
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School of Open is hosted on the P2PU platform, but courses will also link out to other websites and use a variety of social media tools. We want people to use (open) tools they are already comfortable with. The School of Open is the umbrella under which all of these activities are to take place, a landing spot for those who want get involved but follow different tracks.
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===October 2012===
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* '''[[Open_Policy_Institute/2012_Convening|Convening on the Open Policy Institute and School of Open]]''': School of Open and Open Policy Institute convening to get key community representatives from the various “open” sectors on board and involved. CC is organizing and hosting all logistics and content of this meeting. ([http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34550 Blog post])
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** ''9 participants committed to develop courses in open education, open policies, and open GLAM/culture from this meeting.''
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* '''[[Open_Education_2012|Open Ed Conference]]''': Creative Commons will present School of Open during a closing plenary session and pitchfest to recruit interested initiatives and individuals interested in creating and running courses on "open".
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** ''__ participants committed to develop __ courses in Open _____ from this conference.''
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* '''Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community'''
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* ''Course review process proposed
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''
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===November 2012===
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* '''[[Mozilla_Festival_2012|2012 Mozilla Festival: Making, Freedom, and the Web]]''': Thanks to the success of the School of Open workshops in Berlin, Mozilla has invited us to lead a similar workshop at their annual festival in London. This will be an optimal time to debut progress from Berlin through the October meeting.
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** ''__ participants committed to develop __ courses in Open _____ from the festival.''
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*'''[http://creativecommons.or.id/ccidap2012/ CC Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting]''': Discussion and/or workshop on School of Open at this meeting (led by CC’s Global Network Manager) to catalyze affiliate involvement.  
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*'''CC Latin America Regional Meeting''': Workshop on School of Open at this meeting to catalyze affiliate involvement.
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* '''Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community'''
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* '''[http://open-strategies.de/ Summit on Open Strategies]''': CC Germany's lead will lead a session on School of Open at the summit in Berlin. Wikimedian in Residence in Open Science will help facilitate.
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* ''Course review process discussed and drafted''
  
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== Multiple Languages ==
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===December 2012===
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* Creative Commons celebrates the [http://10.creativecommons.org/ 10th anniversary] of its license suite!
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* [[Open_Video_Forum|Open Video Forum]] (Berlin, Germany): first SOO course sprint to develop a course on Open Video!
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* [http://www.thehubla.com/event/thehubla-living-economy-salon/ Living Economy Salon] (Los Angeles, US): 5 minute pitch during Open Mic at HubLA
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* '''Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community'''
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* ''Course review process posted''
  
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You should feel free to develop materials in your native language, especially since we want education around openness to reach all cultures and sectors of society. Depending on interest/demand, the P2PU platform may incorporate additional languages (current user interface already translated into Spanish, Swedish, and Mandarin), or as mentioned above link out to the tools/resources that are being run in your language.
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===January 2013===
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* '''Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community'''
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* '''Design of badges for courses'''
  
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== Roadmap ==
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=== February 2013===
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* '''Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community'''
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* '''Design of badges for courses'''
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* '''Community Review of all courses'''
  
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* '''School of Open two week working meeting (July 2012)''': Part P2PU's month-long pop-up office in Berlin. Project Manager and P2PU community members start mapping and developing some key components of the School. Events: Virtual sprint (24 July), School of Open challenges workshop (26 July), Open Web Challenges Hackjam w/Mozilla (28 July).
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===March 2013===
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* '''CC Affiliate Regional Meetings (various/ongoing)''': Discussion and/or workshop on School of Open at these meetings (led by CC’s Global Network Manager) to catalyze affiliate involvement.
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*'''Launch first set of courses during [http://openeducationweek.org/ Open Education Week] (11-15 March)'''
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* '''Open Knowledge Festival (September 2012)''': OKFestival’s Open Research and Education track includes an “Open Peer Learning: School of Open and School of Data” workshop to engage the OKFN, CC, and European open communities. It will take place right before the CC Europe regional meeting to allow CC affiliates to participate.
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* Feature School of Open as part of Open Ed Week's P2PU Showcase, a webinar led by [https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-ed/ School of Ed]'s Karen Fasimpaur
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* '''Convening on the Open Policy Institute and School of Open (October 2012)''': School of Open and Open Policy Institute convening to get key funders and representatives from the various “open” sectors on board and involved. CC is organizing and hosting all logistics and content of this meeting.
 
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* '''2012 Mozilla Festival: Making, Freedom, and the Web (November 2012)''': Thanks to the success of the School of Open workshops in Berlin, Mozilla has invited us to lead a similar workshop at their annual festival in London. This will be an optimal time to debut progress from Berlin through the October meeting.
 

Latest revision as of 22:12, 28 April 2014

Website (beta): http://schoolofopen.org

Follow #schoolofopen hashtag on social media

This page also available as a handout (pdf)

What?

The School of Open will provide online educational resources and professional development courses on the meaning and impact of “openness” in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and beyond. Individuals and organizations will learn how to use free technology and tools, such as Creative Commons licenses, to achieve their goals. Participants will also learn how to overcome barriers they run into everyday due to legal or technical restrictions.

Why?

Universal access to and participation in research, education, and culture is made possible by openness, but not enough people know what it means or how to take advantage of it. We hear about Open Source Software, Open Educational Resources, and Open Access… But what are these movements, who are their communities, and how do they work? Most importantly—how can they help me?

Learning about “open.”

The School of Open will offer courses on the meaning and application of “open” on the web and in offline environments. Courses will be powered by mentors and learners like you, and will be organized into study groups that leverage free and open resources and tools for collaboration. Artists, educators, learners, scientists, archivists, and other creators already improve their fields via the use of open tools and materials. So can you. A long-term objective for the School of Open is to offer certification on the skills learned, so that you can help others take full advantage of what the digital age has to offer. Current courses include Teach someone something with open content and Get CC Savvy.

Who is involved?

The School of Open is coordinated by Creative Commons and P2PU, an active peer learning platform and community for developing and running free online courses. Volunteers, individual creators and organizational representatives, can design courses for peer learning in study groups or for facilitation by a subject expert.

Get Involved

There are many ways you can get started. Here are a few:

Running the School of Open openly

In the spirit of all it encompasses, the School of Open is being run as an open community project—which means that everything is being documented openly, decisions are made transparently, and the community has input in making those decisions. Here a few of the things we are doing to ensure maximum openness:

Questions or comments?

Join the discussion list and send a note to school-of-open@googlegroups.com. It’s Open!

If you have a private question, email the Project Manager at janepark at creativecommons dot org.

Roadmap

September 2011

  • CC Global Summit: Concept for a School of Open gains support from CC Affiliates and Summit participants as part of the CC Education Strategy Workshop.

November 2011

June 2012

  • Initial Call for Participation: Announced on the CC blog, the CC affiliates mailing list, P2PU and CC community mailing lists, other open/free culture mailing lists, and broadcast via CC and P2PU social media channels.
  • CC Africa Regional Meeting: Discussion on School of Open held at CC's first regional meeting in Africa. Initial interest in the project, but no immediate capacity for involvement yet.

July 2012

  • School of Open working meeting: Part P2PU's month-long pop-up office in Berlin. Project Manager and P2PU community members start mapping and developing some key components of the School over two weeks. Events: Virtual sprint (24 July), School of Open challenges workshop (26 July), Open Web Challenges Hackjam w/Mozilla (28 July).
    • 4 participants committed to develop 7 courses in Open Licensing and Education from this meeting.

August 2012

  • Development of School and course structures

September 2012

  • Three courses ready for testing: (1) Teach someone something with open content; (2) Teach someone something with open content, part 2; (3) Get CC Savvy
  • School of Open breakout at CC Staff In-Town-Week: Intro to School of Open and P2PU course structure, with a large group brainstorm around the most common misconceptions staff run into when talking to people about CC. In small groups, staff found resources to address six common misconceptions shared those resources. The resulting resources and list of misconceptions will inform CC related courses at School of Open going forward.
  • Open Knowledge Festival and CC Europe Regional Meeting: OKFestival’s Open Research and Education track includes an “Open Peer Learning: School of Open and School of Data” workshop to engage the OKFN, CC, and European open communities. It will take place right before the CC Europe regional meeting to allow CC affiliates to participate. (Blog post)
  • Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community

October 2012

  • Convening on the Open Policy Institute and School of Open: School of Open and Open Policy Institute convening to get key community representatives from the various “open” sectors on board and involved. CC is organizing and hosting all logistics and content of this meeting. (Blog post)
    • 9 participants committed to develop courses in open education, open policies, and open GLAM/culture from this meeting.
  • Open Ed Conference: Creative Commons will present School of Open during a closing plenary session and pitchfest to recruit interested initiatives and individuals interested in creating and running courses on "open".
    • __ participants committed to develop __ courses in Open _____ from this conference.
  • Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community
  • Course review process proposed

November 2012

  • 2012 Mozilla Festival: Making, Freedom, and the Web: Thanks to the success of the School of Open workshops in Berlin, Mozilla has invited us to lead a similar workshop at their annual festival in London. This will be an optimal time to debut progress from Berlin through the October meeting.
    • __ participants committed to develop __ courses in Open _____ from the festival.
  • CC Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting: Discussion and/or workshop on School of Open at this meeting (led by CC’s Global Network Manager) to catalyze affiliate involvement.
  • CC Latin America Regional Meeting: Workshop on School of Open at this meeting to catalyze affiliate involvement.
  • Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community
  • Summit on Open Strategies: CC Germany's lead will lead a session on School of Open at the summit in Berlin. Wikimedian in Residence in Open Science will help facilitate.
  • Course review process discussed and drafted

December 2012

  • Creative Commons celebrates the 10th anniversary of its license suite!
  • Open Video Forum (Berlin, Germany): first SOO course sprint to develop a course on Open Video!
  • Living Economy Salon (Los Angeles, US): 5 minute pitch during Open Mic at HubLA
  • Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community
  • Course review process posted

January 2013

  • Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community
  • Design of badges for courses

February 2013

  • Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community
  • Design of badges for courses
  • Community Review of all courses

March 2013

  • Launch first set of courses during Open Education Week (11-15 March)
  • Feature School of Open as part of Open Ed Week's P2PU Showcase, a webinar led by School of Ed's Karen Fasimpaur
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