Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

 

In our ONL group we discussed all the different platforms where we can share our knowledge. Where we can make the knowledge available to our students. Is it really that easy, or are there some rules and regulations?

 

I was really interested in the copyrights and licenses. 

 

Creative commons provide a set of free tools to help us legally share our knowledge and creativity. I also know that these licences have become the de-facto international standard for open licensing of creative works.

Creative Commons also enables creators to share creative works legally by providing several copyright licenses and tools that creators may use to grant the public specific permissions on how to use their work.

The combination of Creative Commons licenses and tools in the hands of users makes possible a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law.

Creative Commons consists of four different options, which may be mixed and combined as fits. The combination of these options grants different degrees of openness to your work.

a)       BY - Attribution: This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

b)      NC - Non-Commercial: This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work - and derivative works based upon it - non-commercially.

c)       ND - No Derivatives: This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole.

d)      SA - Share-Alike: This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work, as long as they license their new creations under the identical terms.

 

https://foter.com/blog/how-to-attribute-creative-commons-photos/#more-4 has a creative way explaining creative.

I also looked at how to license your work:

Start thinking about the license you want to apply before you start your work. This way, you can start looking for existing material that you may wish to use and include into your work, which supports the license you have chosen.

 

Follow these three steps, defined by Michelle Willmers and Laura Czerniewicz: https://www.academia.edu/13436439/Open_Content_Licensing_a_Three_Step_Guide