Open Content Licensing for Educators Workshop

Open content licensing for educators is a free online workshop designed for educators who want to learn more about open education resources, copyright, and creative commons licenses. This workshop will:

• Reflect on the practice of sharing knowledge in education and the permissions educators consider fair and reasonable;
• Define what constitutes an open education resource (OER);
• Explain how international copyright functions in a digital world;
• Introduce the Creative Commons suite of licenses and explain how they support open education approaches;
• Connect with educators around the world to share thoughts and experiences in relation to copyright, OER and Creative Commons.