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Tag: CC Certificate
Meet the Recipients of the Fall 2024 CC Certificate Scholarship
by Shanna Hollich CC Certificate, Licenses & ToolsSchool by Thomas Hawk is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0. The Creative Commons (CC) Certificate courses are widely considered an essential resource for open access education and for increasing capacity for individuals and institutions using the CC licenses to increase open access. The CC Certificate program offers in-depth courses about CC licenses, open practices, and…
CC Certificate Alumni Making a Global Impact
by Shanna Hollich CC Certificate, Open Education, PolicyLaunched in 2018, the Creative Commons Certificate program has trained and graduated nearly 1800 people from 66 countries. The Certificate program offers in-depth courses about CC licenses, open practices, and the ethos of the Commons. Our staff is constantly inspired by our community of Certificate alumni, accomplishing incredible things. In this interview, we were delighted…
New Revisions to CC Certificate Course Content = New Opportunities for Translations
by Shanna Hollich, Jennryn Wetzler CC CertificateWe are delighted to share the latest revisions of our Creative Commons Certificate Course content, available on our website as an OER in multiple formats.
Highlights from GLAM Wiki by the CC Open Culture Team
by Brigitte Vézina, Jocelyn Miyara, Jennryn Wetzler, Connor Benedict Open CultureFrom 16 to 18 November, members of the Creative Commons (CC) Open Culture and Learning and Training teams attended GLAM Wiki in Montevideo Uruguay. In this blog post we look back at the event’s highlights from CC’s perspective.
Creative Commons Open Education Platform: 2022 in Review
by Cable Green, Jennryn Wetzler Open EducationThe Creative Commons Open Education Team is pleased to provide a snapshot of progress made toward opening access and equity in education, through a look at our collective efforts in 2022.1 We laud the CC open education community for its important work throughout 2022. CC and community members’ open education efforts in 2022 included, but…
Creative Commons Bootcamp for California Community Colleges
by Jennryn Wetzler Open EducationOpen Education Week offers a global festival of open education efforts. As we take stock of the offerings, it’s heartening to look at how individual efforts can feed into larger system’s change. In our Open Education Week 2023 blog post, we highlight community members’ approaches and tools, opening access to education and knowledge. Below, we…
Creative Commons (CC) Certificate Content: Available in French and Spanish!
by Jennryn Wetzler Open EducationThe CC Certificate program offers training covering open licensing and the ethos of sharing. All CC Certificate content is openly licensed and built with the intention of adaptation and remix. While CC currently offers Certificate courses to address (1) educators, (2) academic librarians, and (3) cultural heritage communities (also known as GLAM: galleries, libraries, archives…
CC Certificate: Alumni interview with Jennifer Miller
by Jennryn Wetzler Open EducationLaunched in 2018, the Creative Commons Certificate program has trained and graduated 1255 people from 65 countries to date. We celebrate the incredible projects in open knowledge and culture led by the graduates of our program. CC Certificate alumni have used the Certificate course knowledge in a number of ways—read about how alumni have worked…
Here are four key takeaways from evaluating the CC Certificate
by Jennryn Wetzler Open EducationThe CC Certificate program helps Creative Commons build professionals’ capacity in open licensing and open practices. The program offers global courses for academic librarians, educators, and cultural heritage advocates; but courses are open to everyone. Through global discussions, course participants work through what it means to engage in an online commons of shared knowledge and…
CC Certificate: Alumni interview with Revekka Kefalea
by Jennryn Wetzler Open Culture, Open EducationLaunched in 2018, the Creative Commons Certificate program has trained and graduated over 1000 people from 56 countries. Creative Commons staff are regularly inspired by the community of Certificate alumni, accomplishing incredible things in open knowledge and culture. CC Certificate alumni have used the Certificate course knowledge in a number of ways—read about how alumni…