Aims

Open content licensing for educators is a free micro Open Online Course (mOOC) designed for educators who want to learn more about open education resources, copyright, and creative commons licenses. This course will help you to: Reflect on the practice of sharing knowledge in education and the permissions educators consider fair and reasonable; Define what constitutes an open educational resource (OER); Explain how international copyright functions in a digital world; Distinguish the types of Creative Commons licenses and explain how they support open education approaches; Acquire the prerequisite knowledge required by educators to legally remix OER and help institutions to take informed decisions about open content licenses; Use social media technologies to support your learning; Connect with educators around the world to share thoughts and experiences in relation to copyright, OER and Creative Commons.