Another great story of openness, and one that is well themed for this amazing time in South Africa. My colleague Andrew Deacon in the Centre for Educational Technology attended the Algeria versus England Match in Cape Town last Friday. Naturally
Introducing the Open Attribute Referencing Tool
Yesterday the Mozilla Drumbeat organization launched a new tool to help content users reference openly licensed Creative Commons content. Referencing openly licensed content has been slightly ambigious in the past with many people adopting their own methods. The OpenAttribute project
Another Great Example of the Benefits of Openness
A couple months back we created a screencast which was aimed at assisting OER producers at UCT in getting a Creative Commons logo onto their teaching and learning material – most often offline yet digital files like Powerpoint presentations and
Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right
On Thursday, November 5, 2009, Creative Commons founding board member Lawrence Lessig addressed a general session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Conference in Denver. “It Is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right.” In this talk, Lawrence Lessig will review the progress
Engaging with the Commons: A vision for UCT
THE COMMONS, n., gifts of nature and society; the wealth we inherit or create together and must pass on, undiminished or enhanced, to our children; a sector of the economy that complements the corporate sector. http://onthecommons.org/ 20 October 2009 The
Video Walkthrough on Licensing Offline Works using Creative Commons
I have finally gotten around to transferring my video walkthough to youtube. It should now be viewable by all. I had provided it as a web link on our Vula site, but depending on your computer’s configuration you may or
Understanding the Creative Commons Non-Commercial License
The Creative Commons license enables us to share content but not lose it to the public domain. The enabling nature of Creative Commons is such that it quickly allows us to show others what they can and can’t do with
Getting the Creative Commons Logo on our OER
One of the questions which keeps coming up throughout our project is; “how do we get our document to contain the Creative Commons (CC) license?” Although trivial for some, it can be a challenge depending on what type of media
First Glance at OERca Software
We have started experimenting with the OERca software which is currently being developed at the University of Michigan (UMich). The OERca software was designed to support the dScribe process of clearing potential open educational resources for global use under open
Finding Creative Commons Resources
Our project relies heavily on UCT staff and students adopting a Creative Commons (CC) or similar open licensing culture. Read the “Beauty of Some Right Reserved” by Molly Kleinman for some background on what that may mean for higher education