An Overview of Global Creative Commons Licensing Initiatives and Positive Effects
Posted on December 1, 2009 by Ken Udas
Esther Wojcicki is a Journalism and English teacher at Palo Alto High School in California. For The Huffington Post, she has just published a marvelous overview of recent Creative Commons (CC) licensing achievements entitled, “Creative Commons In 2009: The Accomplishments In Promoting Worldwide Sharing.” In addition to serving as a nice overview of some CC enabled projects, the article starts by making the connection between the positive relationship that education has on poverty reduction and how CC licensing catalyzes the impact of educational materials through reducing barriers to sharing. This draws focus on why CC and open educational resources (OER) are important. Included in her report, which describes various important CC initiatives worldwide involving many public and private sector organizations, Ms. Wojcicki also spotlights CC resources and sites for educators:
Launch of New Resources for Open Education: OpenEd, DiscoverEd, Inside OER OpenEd is a new open education community site. DiscoverEd is an education search engine prototype that is now up and running here. It is designed to provide scalable search and discovery for educational resources on the web, but is still in a very experimental phase. Inside OER is a full suite of interviews with movers and shakers in the open education world, all available here.
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