Help us build a School of Open
Jane Park,
Creative Commons,
Jun 28, 2012
Creative Commons is engaged in an exercise to build a 'School of Open' with P2P 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." The main point for Creative Commons, I think, is its stated desire "to provide better education around CC tools, and we would love community appropriation and adaptation/translation of these resources." All very well, but resources and PD courses do not constitute a "school" and it's not clear to me anyways that Creative Commons, even working with P2PU, is in the best position to be offering educational opportunities. Organizations like CC should be providing resources that are then incorporated into actual educational opportunities, and not propaganda eercises (no matter how well-meaning). Because a proper education about open content involves hearing about Creative Commons - and other things - and not merely hearing from Creative Commons.
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