Partners

Sponsors

This OCL4Ed course is sponsored by the OER Foundation, the COL Chair in OER at Otago Polytechnic, the UNESCO-COL Chair in OER at Athabasca University and Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand celebrating the recent adoption of the 2012 Paris OER Declaration at the UNESCO World OER Congress. (See video from Abel Caine, Programme Specialist for OER at UNESCO.)

The collaborative development of this course was enabled by volunteers from the: WikiEducator community, OpenCourseWare Consortium and Creative Commons with funding support from the UNESCO Office for the Pacific states.

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Lead facilitators

	Wayne Mackintosh, Director, OER Foundation and COL Chair in OER at Otago Polytechnic. See: Bio & welcome video
	Rory McGreal, UNESCO-COL Chair in OER at Athabasca University. See: Bio & welcome video
	Matt McGregor, Public Lead, Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand. See: Bio & welcome video
	Vasi Doncheva, Flexible Learning Manager, NorthTec. See: Bio & welcome video

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Objectives

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.

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Registrations

We're celebrating the adoption of the 2012 Paris OER Declaration by offering the OCL4Ed2012.12 free online workshop for educators who want to learn more about open licensing.

Current number of OCL4Ed registrations

328

Number of countries represented

60

You can increase the number of registrations by 1. Register today and share the gift of free knowledge with a friend or colleague by inviting them to join our workshop.

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