Cable Green advocates for an open license for all publicly funded educational resources

lterrat's bookmarks 2016-12-20

Summary:

"The lack of educational resources remains one of the major problems in the world. 'Even in the United-States, two thirds of the students do not buy the textbooks they need, because they cannot afford them,' says Cable Green, Director of Open Education at Creative Commons (CC), which provides open licenses that enable free and open distribution of works. The CC license is today a global standard givig the people the right to share, use, and build upon an otherwise copyrighted work. Wide angle shares Cable Green's thoughts on the key role that open access to information and knowledge plays in ensuring quality education in the world."

Link:

http://en.unesco.org/news/cable-green-advocates-open-license-all-publicly-funded-educational-resources

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lterrat's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.books

Date tagged:

12/20/2016, 23:59

Date published:

12/20/2016, 18:59