Anatomy of a Creative Commons (CC) Licence

As it’s Open Education 2019 in Arizona next week I have had to get a little ahead on the CC Certification course assignments.  We were asked to write another presentation, this time on the parts that make up a Creative Commons licence. Anatomy of a Creative Commons (CC) Licence from Robert Farrow

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What is copyright?

We have our second assignment for our Creative Commons course due today.  This time we were asked to write a short presentation on copyright basics.   If you find any slides useful feel free to make use of them! What is Copyright? from Robert Farrow  

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Creative Commons TimeLine

I am currently studying for a Creative Commons certificate for educators and we have our first assignment. We were asked to publish assignments online, so I’m putting mine here on the blog. Although all the content on this blog is CC-BY I’ve added additional attribution.  The brief was to write a timeline for Creative Commons […]

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UK Open Textbooks: key points

Last month I presented the UK Open Textbooks project at the Learning On/With the Open Web event organised by the Disruptive Media Learning Lab and held at the Coventry Transport Museum. You can see the submission here but I thought it was a good idea to record the headlines here in case the conference site […]

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What I heard, what I did not hear and what I wish I had heard… Reflections on the World Conference on Online Learning, Toronto, 2017

Originally posted on opendistanceteachingandlearning:
Recently I’ve had the privilege of attending the World Conference on Online Learning in Toronto, organized and hosted by Contact North I Contact Nord. What a conference it was! At times, it resembled a medieval marketplace or bazaar with a variety of voices and opinions demanding attention. In addition, amid the…

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Intervention – “Control, Resistance, and the ‘Data University’: Towards a Third Wave Critique”

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
by The Analogue University[1] From Auditing, Controlling, to Desiring Data The term “neo-liberal university” has become shorthand for a range of contemporary pressures in university life (Burrows 2012; Strathern 2000). However, increasingly we are not only considering specific pressures – such as workload, anxiety, and the reduction of research to…

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