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How can educators find and use OER in their classrooms?
Let’s start the school year right! Open education is at the core of our work and with many countries going back to school this week, we wanted to kick off our #backtoschool week some more practical...
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European Commission Copyright Proposal Leaves Users In The Dark
Copyright policy should benefit everyone, not just legacy rightsholders Today the European Commission released its legislative proposal for changes to EU copyright law. The proposal has been...
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“It upholds the dignity of mankind”: the power of OER in West Africa
National Open University of Nigeria Logo CC BY-2.0 Open educator and Institute for Open Leadership Fellow Jane-Frances Agbu works as a senior lecturer in health science and coordinates the...
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A long-awaited new look for our website
One of the projects I knew I wanted to take on when I joined Creative Commons as CEO was a major website redesign. The CC site has always been a valuable source of information about our mission, our...
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Lights, camera, web standards! Netflix releases algorithmic film “Meridian”...
Photo by Bryan Gosline CC BY-SA 2.0 While it will probably not be the next Netflix hit original, the twelve minutes of Creative Commons licensed content that make up “Meridian” will have a major impact...
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Building an Institutional Open Access Policy In Nepal
In March we hosted the second Institute for Open Leadership. In our summary of the event we mentioned that the Institute fellows would be taking turns to write about their open policy projects. This...
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Call for photographers! (US based)
On Thursday, February 17, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visited the Judy Hoyer Early Learning Center at Cool Springs Elementary School in Adelphi, Maryland. HHS photo by Chris Smith, US Government...
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Giving away your art for FREE again??
The artist Patrick Hochstenbach is a comic artist, programmer, and digital architect at University of Ghent libraries. Check out more of his work on Instagram and Twitter. The post Giving away your...
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Musician Marisa Anderson looks for the new in the old
Marisa Anderson performs “Chimes” at the Into the Light album release show in Portland, OR. Photo by Jody Darby CC BY NC I have been a fan of Marisa Anderson’s music since discovering her albums at the...
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Copyright reform in Colombia should focus on supporting users’ rights
Today Creative Commons, CC Colombia, and over a dozen other CC affiliates and partners sent a letter to the Colombian government calling for user-friendly copyright reform. Colombia’s copyright law is...
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