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Category: Open Knowledge
CC Open Education: 2024 Year in Review
by Cable Green, Jennryn Wetzler, Shanna Hollich Open EducationPhoto of Empty Classroom by Diana. Public Domain. The Open Education program at Creative Commons works to support CC’s mission through education, advocacy, and outreach on using open licenses and open licensing policies to maximize the benefits of open education (content, practices and policy). We work closely with governments, educational institutions and organizations to open…
From Recommendations to Implementation: Increasing Access to Climate Data for Earth Intelligence
by Taylor Campbell, Jan Ainali Open Access, Open Climate, Open ScienceScreenshot by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Earlier this year, Creative Commons published our Recommendations for Better Sharing of Climate Data, a seminal resource to help national and intergovernmental climate data-producing agencies use legal terms, licenses, and metadata values that ensure climate data is accessible, shareable, and reusable. Our goal is to…
CC Certificate Alumni Making a Global Impact
by Shanna Hollich CC Certificate, Open Education, PolicyLaunched in 2018, the Creative Commons Certificate program has trained and graduated nearly 1800 people from 66 countries. The Certificate program offers in-depth courses about CC licenses, open practices, and the ethos of the Commons. Our staff is constantly inspired by our community of Certificate alumni, accomplishing incredible things. In this interview, we were delighted…
The CC Open Education Platform Funds Five New Community Projects
by Jennryn Wetzler Community, Open EducationThanks to the CC Open Education Platform community’s time proposing projects and voting on the proposals, we now have five winning ideas to advance open education globally. CC will fund five projects in 2024, spanning Brazil, Ghana, Nepal, and Nigeria. The CC Open Education Platform is also funding ongoing global community work supporting the UNESCO…
Join us at Common(s) Cause: Towards a shared advocacy strategy for the Knowledge Commons – a side event to Wikimania 2024
by Creative Commons Open KnowledgeCreative Commons, Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Future, and Wikimedia Europe are hosting a day-long side event to Wikimania 2024. The event will take place in Katowice, Poland, on 6 August 2024, the day before Wikimania kicks off on 7 August 2024.
Learn More with Creative Commons: Recent Training Highlights
by Jennryn Wetzler, Shanna Hollich CC Certificate, Open EducationIn this blog post, we share some highlights and recordings from recent trainings offered by the Creative Commons Learning and Training team.
Creative Commons and University of Nebraska at Omaha Partner on a Microcredential Course
by Jennryn Wetzler, Craig Finlay CC Certificate, Open EducationCreative Commons is proud to announce the launch of “Introduction to Open Educational Resources,” our first professional development microcredential course and partnership with the University of Nebraska at Omaha, commencing on 31 May. This microcredential pilot started with one CC Certificate alumnus’s enthusiasm for open education. Craig Finlay, OER and STEM Librarian at the University…
CC’s take on the European Media Freedom Act
by Brigitte Vézina, Mark Foster, Jennryn Wetzler Open JournalismLast month, the European Parliament and Council gave the green light to an important piece of legislation: the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA). In this blog post, we look at the aims of the EMFA and why it matters for Creative Commons (CC) and everyone’s right to access trustworthy information.
CC Supports a new Digital Knowledge Act for Europe
by Brigitte Vézina, Monica Granados Copyright, Open Access, Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Science, PolicyAnonymous, “Prudence, Wisdom and Knowledge”, National Library of the Netherlands, Public Domain Mark. In December last year, the Communia Association for the Public Domain — of which Creative Commons (CC) is a member — asked the European Commission and European Parliament to consider the development of a Digital Knowledge Act. In this blog post, we…
CC Open Education Platform Activities: 2023 in Review
by Jennryn Wetzler, Werner Westermann, Tetiana Kolesnykova, Dan McGuire, Dr. Suma Parahakaran, Lisa Di Valentino, John Okewole, Fernando Daguanno About CC, Community, Open Education, Open KnowledgeThe CC Open Education community had a busy 2023! Five project teams, spanning nine countries, worked on open education projects ranging from developing STEAM, interactive, and climate change-related OER, to international curriculum alignment and translation work. Community members also worked on multimedia resources supporting the UNESCO Recommendation on OER, and presented in CC’s biannual Open…