Help us build a School of Open - Creative Commons

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-06-29

Summary:

“Some of you may have heard about a School of Open, especially if you follow us on Twitter/Identi.ca/Facebook, or if you’re already a part of the P2PU community and follow their blog. Whether you have or not, the School of Open is still very much a concept, and one which we invite you to join in building. The School of Open is a collaboration between Creative Commons and P2PU (Peer 2 Peer University). Its aim is to provide easily digestible educational exercises, resources, and professional development courses that help individuals and institutions learn about and employ open tools, such as the CC licenses. Why is CC doing this ? [1] Universal access to and participation in research, education, and culture is made possible by openness, but not enough people know what it means or how to take advantage of it. One solution: peer learning on what ‘open’ means and how it applies to you, powered by mentors and learners like you, self-organized into study groups which themselves leverage existing ‘open’ learning materials. We imagine artists, educators, learners, scientists, archivists, and other creators improving their fields via the use of open tools and materials. Eventually, we’d like to offer certification around ‘open’ skills that result in the spread of openness. [2] The CC community has often expressed a need for more community/communications support regarding best practices, explanatory materials, help generally in convincing entities (whether GLAMs, IGOs, governments) to use CC and other open tools. [3] Community members have also expressed priorities regarding open advocacy and policy activities. The School of Open could be one venue for open advocates to work together to develop and provide these resources... School of Open leverages P2PU’s active peer learning platform for developing courses, challenges, and study groups. The P2PU community has been a part of the open education movement since 2009 and promoted openness to the education sector. P2PU ran a number of successful courses on licensing for educators, which will become part of the School of Open. All peer-produced resources on p2pu.org are defaulted under CC BY-SA, the same license as Wikipedia. School of Open is hosted on the P2PU platform, but courses will also link out to other websites and use a variety of social media tools... You should feel free to develop materials in your native language, especially since we want education around openness to reach all cultures and sectors of society. Depending on interest/demand, the P2PU platform may incorporate additional languages (current user interface already translated into Spanish, Swedish, and Mandarin), or as mentioned above link out to the tools/resources that are being run in your language. Imminent events include: [1] Berlin, Germany (July 2012): School of Open month-long workshop as part of the P2PU pop-up office. Jane and P2PU community members will start mapping and developing some key components of the School. An evening hands-on event will be held Thur, 26 July in Berlin that is open to the public. You’re invited (RSVP here). If you’re nearby, please join us! [2] Helsinki, Finland (September 2012): OKFestival’s Open Research and Education track includes an ‘Open Peer Learning: School of Open and School of Data’ workshop to engage the OKFN, CC, and European open communities. Will take place Wed afternoon, 19 September before the CC Europe regional meeting to allow CC affiliates to participate. [3] Palo Alto, CA, U.S. (October 2012): School of Open and Open Policy Institute convening to get key funders and representatives from the various ‘open’ sectors on board and involved, eg. open policy, open licenses, open GLAM, open data, open science, open education, etc. [4] CC affiliate regional meetings (various): discussion and/or workshop on School of Open at these meetings”

Link:

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33041

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.policies oa.licensing oa.comment oa.advocacy oa.best_practices oa.cc oa.open_science oa.events oa.crowd oa.oer oa.social_media oa.twitter oa.glam oa.encouragement oa.facebook oa.blogs oa.p2pu oa.identi.ca oa.school_of_open school_of_data oa.school_of_data oa.libre

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

06/29/2012, 14:45

Date published:

06/29/2012, 15:08