What is Open Education?
Open education "...is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge."(1)
Overview
"Open educational resources (OER) are an Internet empowered worldwide community effort to create an education commons. The term "open educational resources" was first adopted at UNESCO's 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation." (Wikipedia)
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OER and CC Licensing
Whether you want it or not, you automatically get all-rights-reserved copyright protection for just about anything you publish. When you place your works on the Internet, those copyright protections remain in place unless you take action to make them open. More »
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CC Chair Responds to NY Times Article
20 November 2009 by openedblogger
Last week the New York Times ran an article on teachers selling educational resources online. Mike Linksvayer has pointed to response at The Huffington Post from the Board Chair of Creative Commons, Esther Wojcicki. From Wojcicki’s post:
Professor McDonald need not worry because most teachers tend to share lesson plans and resources freely within departments, within [...]