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Welcome to the Content Directories The following is a list of organizations and projects powered with Creative Commons licenses. Since Creative Commons does not maintain a database of content and does not store content, we would like CC-community members to help build a directory of projects to help spread the word about CC — hence the CC Content Directories wiki! Please help us fill it out! What is an appropriate entry for Content Directories? Many of the listings in the Content Directories are organizations that provide services using Creative Commons licenses. Not certain that something should be added to this list? How to add an entry to Content Directories To get started, simply add the name of the organization or project in the box below.

OER Project There are many ways you can help develop the OER Project and the open educational community. Below you will find a list of ways you can volunteer a few minutes of your time. Pages Pages that are open to edits: Pages closed to public edits (you can make comments and suggestions by visiting their corresponding Talk pages): Databases We maintain several wiki-databases related to OER. ODEPO (Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations) is a wiki-database of organizations involved in providing educational content online. OER Resources OER Resources is a database of resources about OER such as articles, publications, news, videos, etc. Adding a page To add a page to the OER project, simply call the template {{OER Nav}} on the page.

30+ Places To Find Creative Commons Media This article was written in 2009 and remains one of our most popular posts. If you’re keen to learn more about online tools, you may find this recent article on Google Analytics apps of great interest. In this day and age, it seems everything online has a price associated with it. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, these are files you can use in the creation of web sites and other media, free of charge. SitePoint has gathered up over 30 of the best resources online for audio, video, images and more for finding just the perfect Creative Commons licensed item for use in your next project. Audio Free audio clips and songs essentially have a limitless amount of uses from playing in the background of videocasts, being the opening theme to a podcast, or they can even just be used as a punctuation when a user clicks on a link. ArtistServer.com: Over 7,000 free audio files as of this writing, all well categorized and easy to navigate. General Searches Images Texts Videos

The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Educati Special 2-Book Discount!Empowering Online Learning and The World is Open by Curtis J. Bonk. The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education is now in softcover with a new introduction/prequel (“Sharing…the Journey”) and ending/postscript (“An Open Letter to the Learners of this Planet”). The World is Open is now out in Chinese (simplified). Check out the new Italian translations of the Postscript to World Is Open, the Foreword to Word is Open in Chinese Edition, and the Prequel to World is Open. Watch e-learning video primers "For those of you eager to stay current on open education trends, I recommend the new book by Curtis Bonk, The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Technology. Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Director of Online and Hybrid Support Center at California State University, East Bay Buy this book! U.S. Read the book review in Educational Technology Research and Development Introduction to the Open Learning World Chapter 1: WE-ALL-LEARN Brian J.

List of Creative Commons Image Directories and Sites Creative Commons Image Libraries Creative Commons images are a special subset of 'free images'. Creative Commons came about as a way to simplify the minefield that is 'free' content (view our listing of free stock photo sites) and allow photographers to provide ('license') their work for free under easy to understand terms which benefit both the photographer and the user. The good people at creativecommons.org explain this better, but CC allows photographers and illustrators or creators of any content to clearly license their work, and tag it in such a way that it can be found online easily. For the image user creative commons makes it clear if the images can be used in commercial applications, if changes can be made and in ALL cases an attribution as specified by the creator must be included when the image is used. The details of this attribution are usually displayed along with the image on the source web site often in a series of icons or a link to a licence page: as an example:

Defining Open Educational Practices (OEP) Last week I attended the kick off meeting for an exciting new EU-funded project, OPAL, from the website: The Open Educational Quality Initiative will focus on provision of innovative open educational practices and promote quality, innovation and transparency in higher and adult education. Beginning in January 2010, the two-year OPAL Initiative is a partnership between seven organizations including ICDE, UNESCO and ICDE member institution, the Open University UK, and will be coordinated by the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. The project is part funded by the European Commission Education and Training Lifelong Learning Programme. As you can see the project has a strong consortium with some significant players/representatives from across the EU. For us at the OU it builds nicely on two stands of related work – our work on OER (through the development of the OpenLearn site and more recently the Olnet initiative) and the OU Learning Design Initiative. Does this definition make sense?

Five Best Personal Project Management Tools Do we need Open Educational Resources (OER)? « Learn Online Santtu at the helm by wili_hybrid When I get a free minute I try to get through some of my feedreader. Unfortunately I don’t get very far into it because Abject Learning is first in the list. This time Brian is questioning the need for OER, and I have to say I largely share his position, it is over rated in the grand scheme of things. One of the other participants asked a question that resonated with me: if we live in an era of information abundance, why is the primary drive around OERs the publication of more content? And what other activities around the open education movement might be an effective use of our energies? The predictable response from content centric OER proponents relates to copyright and freedom, OER content is “free”. But as Brian points out, this is increasingly a non issue: Already, formal education is out of the picture in every way. The rhetoric about freedom and moralistic argument in OER amps up non-the-less. Like this: Like Loading...

Utiliser les licences libres pour un projet éditorial : quels contenus ? quels usages ? quelle diffusion J’ai eu la chance de pouvoir donner récemment une formation au Labo de l’édition consacrée à l’utilisation des licences libres ou de libre diffusion dans le cadre d’un projet éditorial, devant un public composé d’auteurs, d’éditeurs et de porteurs de projets de plateformes numériques ou d’applications. In libris libertas. Par Drewpiter. CC-BY. Source : Flickr. La discussion avec ces professionnelles fut riche et je poste ci-dessous le support que j’ai utilisé pour cette intervention (sous licence CC-BY et donc entièrement réutilisable, modifiable et adaptable). Je me suis efforcé d’expliquer de manière aussi simple que possible le fonctionnement des licences (notamment les Creative Commons) et de montrer quelles pouvaient être leurs applications pratiques dans le cadre d’un projet d’édition de livres (papier et numérique). Like this: J'aime chargement… Ce blog est tenu par : Calimaq - aka Lionel Maurel Juriste & Bibliothécaire.

Internet Archive: Free Downloads: Open Educational Resources< s Reading List: Books of 2013 At the end of each year, EFF puts together a list of some of the interesting and noteworthy books that have been published in the past 12 months or so. We don't endorse all of their arguments, but we find they've added some valuable insight to the conversation around the areas and issues on which we work. Some notes about this list: it's presented in alphabetical order by author's last name, and the links contain our Amazon affiliate code, which means EFF will receive a portion of purchases made through this page. The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed, by Nate Anderson Nate Anderson is a writer for Ars Technica and has had occasion to report on many stories of crime—and investigation—online. On Internet Freedom, by Marvin Ammori In this short volume, available as a DRM-free ebook, the established First Amendment scholar and longtime digital rights advocate Marvin Ammori takes on the question of why everybody should care about keeping the Internet free.

Où trouver des images libres de droits : plus de 60 sites sur une carte heuristique Olivier Legrand propose une carte heuristique avec liens ressources pour trouver des images libres de droit a prori pour illustrer des créations en mindmapping. A priori seulement, car cette carte qui recense des banques de photos libres de droits, des images en version icônes ou des solutions en ligne pour créer des avatars peut correspondre à bien des projets Web. Bref, cette carte heuristique recense plus de 60 sites pour trouver des images libres de droit ; une veille exhaustive et attentive. Licence : Creative Commons by-nc-saGéographie : France Tags: carte heuristique, cartographie, image, libre de droits Posté par Jean-Luc Raymond le samedi 2 février 2013 Crédit média : Etsy Catégories : Blog NetPublic, Création multimédia, Formation numérique, Ressources NetPublic

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