Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as CC licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. To learn more about…
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Four Questions for Cable Green About Teaching, Learning, and Sharing Openly Online
Our column on teaching, learning, and sharing openly online was just published in JAAL. I co-wrote the column with Verena Roberts, Randy LaBonte, and Lee Graham. In this column we share the challenges and opportunities associated with open, open educational resources, and open learning. As a supplement to the column, we invited in a series of…
Apply a Creative Commons License to your Digital Learning Hub
This trimester students in our IT&DML program will begin building and refining their digital learning hub. As I detailed in a previous post, the digital learning hub is viewed as the teaching space, or the teacher website for each individual. The “hub” as it is affectionately referred to is a sister-site to the blog that…
Creating and Sharing Your Ideas Online With Others
TL;DR Version: This post details the work process I use and my thinking behind how I share content on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook. Sharing with others online is a good thing. Granted, some of us (I’m pointing the finger at myself) share a bit too much. That being said, sharing your thinking, and posting your…
Responsibilities of Academics and Scholars in Writing and Publishing Online
This morning I was having a discussion with Laura Gibbs on Google+ in which we continued some dialogue that was promoted by the post I shared earlier this week on open access writing, publishing, and sharing. My response to Laura was quite long, and I’m pasting (yes, self-piracy) it here to archive it and allow…
Post, Promote, and Protect Your Content Online Using Creative Commons Licensing
TL;DR Version: Creative Commons (CC) licensing of content allows creators and users of online, digital content to share while protecting/acknowledging the rights of others. This blog post is a supplement to my earlier post on CC licensing and identifies basic ways to CC license your content. In my work I try to identify and disseminate…
Creative Commons Licensing of Open Educational Content
TL;DR version: Creative Commons (CC) licensing allows creators and users of online, digital content to share while protecting/acknowledging the rights of others. This blog post defines CC licensing, the need for it, and how to make it happen. What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to…
Copyright, Questions, and Open Source Education
NOTE: Much of this content is antiquated as we’ve moved to a BYOB policy and currently use student blogs as a communication and assessment tool. Also…we never used iPads, we started off the program using Chromebooks and have always been using GAFE. Follow the IT&DML tag on this blog to see the evolution of the…