Online Learning Update

September 18, 2013

California’s Community Colleges Shift to Creative Commons Licenses

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

By Hannah Winston, Chronicle of Higher Ed

The board that governs California’s 112 community colleges has started requiring that courses, research, and other work paid for by the system chancellor’s office be made available free to all users under Creative Commons “attribution” licenses. While the system will retain the copyright on the materials, other users will be able to take advantage of them as long as the originators are properly credited. Cable Green, director of global learning at Creative Commons, says that requiring work to be covered by Creative Commons licenses will allow people to get the most for their money. He says he sees open educational resources growing on a national scale as colleges realize that Creative Commons licensing allows work to be widely disseminated and creates a collaborative working environment. In 2010, Washington State enacted a similar open-access policy for community and technical colleges. Because the work is publicly financed, he says there is no reason it shouldn’t be available to everyone. “The public should get what they pay for,” he says.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/californias-community-colleges-shift-to-creative-commons-licenses/46665

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