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|Description=The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), an intergovernmental organization that “helps governments and institutions to expand the scope, scale and quality of learning,” has defined a new policy on open educational resources (OER). In addition to recognizing the importance of OER for teaching, learning, and collaboration among institutions and governments, the Commonwealth of Learning states that it will “encourage and support governments and institutions to establish supportive policy frameworks to introduce practices relating to OER.” The new policy specifies that COL will “release its own materials under the most feasible open licenses including the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license.”
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|Description=The Commonwealth of Learning's OER policy specifies that COL will “release its own materials under the most feasible open licenses including the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license.”
 
|Mainurl=http://www.col.org/
 
|Mainurl=http://www.col.org/
 
|User_Status=Curator, Creator
 
|User_Status=Curator, Creator
 
|Tag=intergovernmental organizations
 
|Tag=intergovernmental organizations
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|License short name=CC BY-SA, various
 
|CC adoption date=2011
 
|CC adoption date=2011
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|Country=Global
 
|Country=Global
 
|Image_Header=http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/7/78/Col_logo.jpeg
 
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== Overview ==
 
== Overview ==
  
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The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), an intergovernmental organization that “helps governments and institutions to expand the scope, scale and quality of learning,” has defined a policy on open educational resources (OER). In addition to recognizing the importance of OER for teaching, learning, and collaboration among institutions and governments, the Commonwealth of Learning states that it will “encourage and support governments and institutions to establish supportive policy frameworks to introduce practices relating to OER.” The policy specifies that COL will “release its own materials under the most feasible open licenses including the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license.
 
 
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== License Usage ==
 
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COL's OER policy specifically states, that it will
  
'''Please specify the license adopted. How is the license applied? Can you provide any available statistics? What has been the author or organization's experience with Creative Commons licenses so far – what have been the benefits and lessons learned?''' 
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:"release its own materials under the most feasible open licenses including the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license."
 
 
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== Motivations ==
 
== Motivations ==

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The Commonwealth of Learning's OER policy specifies that COL will “release its own materials under the most feasible open licenses including the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license.”

Overview

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), an intergovernmental organization that “helps governments and institutions to expand the scope, scale and quality of learning,” has defined a policy on open educational resources (OER). In addition to recognizing the importance of OER for teaching, learning, and collaboration among institutions and governments, the Commonwealth of Learning states that it will “encourage and support governments and institutions to establish supportive policy frameworks to introduce practices relating to OER.” The policy specifies that COL will “release its own materials under the most feasible open licenses including the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license.”

License Usage

COL's OER policy specifically states, that it will

"release its own materials under the most feasible open licenses including the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license."

Motivations

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Impact

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