As the importance of digital cultural heritage increases in our fast-changing information environment, expertise in copyright and open licensing is a crucial asset for cultural heritage work. Creative Commons licenses and tools are the global standard for open access to knowledge and culture around the world; CC licenses put the “open” in Open Culture, Open…

Creative Commons Cheat Sheet for Higher Education by Jonathan Poritz. CC BY SA 4.0. From the abstract: “What folks working in higher education in the US need to know about Creative Commons licenses, the version of copyrights which most reflects the values of the academy.” More information about Open Access A Very Brief Introduction to…

How education institutions can support open education content, practices, and community with policy. Big Question / Why It Matters Education institutions around the world are trying to figure out how to support their educators, staff, and learners in using, revising, and sharing OER, with new open education practices, and the communities that sustain them. How…

Large parts of this course are about creation, both how it works from a legal perspective and more practically, how we learn by making and creating something. In this unit we will explore and practice how to create OER so they can have biggest impact and be used without any legal or technical barriers. Big…

We live in a visual and vibrant culture that requires educators to provide relevant learning resources in the classroom, though finding and reusing others’ great works is not always simple. Librarians play an important role in discovery, development, description, licensing, curation, and sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER), as well as in advocating for and…

Open education is an idea, as well as a set of content, practices, policy, and community. The goal of open education is to help everyone in the world access effective, open learning materials without legal, technical, or financial barriers. For the first time in history, educators around the world can easily create, open, and share…

Open access content is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions on reuse. Open access stands in contrast to the existing “closed” system for communicating scientific and scholarly research. This current approach is slow, expensive, and ill-suited for research collaboration and discovery. And even though scholarly research is largely…

Expertise in open licensing is a crucial asset for any librarian. Knowledge of the Creative Commons licenses is a useful tool to help librarians meet their goals around open practices and scholarly communication, in addition to helping them continue to serve as a valuable guide to both teaching and research. CC licenses are the most…

Note that some of these resources draw from differing definitions of OER. Creative Commons Cheat Sheet for Higher Education by Jonathan Poritz. CC BY SA 4.0.  From the abstract: “What folks working in higher education in the US need to know about Creative Commons licenses, the version of copyrights which most reflects the values of…

How education institutions can support open education content, practices, and community with policy. Big Question / Why It Matters Education institutions around the world are trying to figure out how to support their educators, staff, and learners in using, revising, and sharing OER, with new open education practices, and the communities that sustain them. How…