The Open Education program at Creative Commons works to support the CC mission through education, advocacy and outreach on using open licenses and open access policies to maximize the benefits of open education (content, practices and policy). We work closely with governments, educational institutions and organizations to open up knowledge for everyone.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
Join the CC Open Education Platform: Stay connected to global actions in open education resources, practice, and policy. Identify, plan and coordinate multi-national open education content, practices and policy projects to collaboratively solve education challenges with an amazing group of open education leaders from around the world.
Take the Creative Commons Certificate: The Certificate is an in-depth course about CC licenses, open practices and the ethos of the Commons.
License your work: Want to add a CC license to your project?
Fund OER: Want to incorporate CC into your education funding policy? See Funder Policies for how to understand and implement CC licenses.
Promote your project: Want to highlight your CC education project? Add it to our Case Studies wiki and tag it with ‘OER’. Then send a note to press@creativecommons.org.
Share open policies: Know of an open education policy in your jurisdiction? Add it to the OER Policy Registry — we need your help to make it a truly useful global resource.
Stay up-to-date: Subscribe to the CC blog or simply follow the Open Education section of the blog.
The Creative Commons Open Education Platform is a space for open education advocates and practitioners to identify, plan and coordinate multi-national open education content, practices and policy activities to foster better sharing of knowledge.
This platform is open to all interested people working in open education. We work in a transparent, professional, ethical and public manner on the following goals:
1. Build and Sustain Community
2. Increase Educational Access and Equity
3. Use Policy to Open Education Opportunities for All
See the Platform working document to learn more about our mission, vision, and principles.
We are a group of over 1100+ members from 90+ countries. Most of our members are open education advocates working in open education: resources, practices, and/or policy. Anyone interested in open education is welcome to join the CC Open Education Platform.
Goal-driven open education activities
Sharing opportunities and updates via our email listserv and Slack channel.
Learning opportunities: join the Open Education Lightning Talks. See examples of previous sessions here and here.
Networking opportunities in our platform meetings: calendar (download zip file).
Stay connected to global actions in open education resources, practice, and policy.
Identify, plan and coordinate multi-national open education content, practices and policy projects to collaboratively solve education challenges with an amazing group of open education leaders from around the world.
Contribute to global perspectives on open education to strengthen advocacy worldwide.
Connect your country / region to global open education initiatives.
Be on the forefront in implementing Creative Commons’ global network strategy.
Meet at the Creative Commons Summit with members of the CC Open Education Platform to celebrate successes, share best practices, and plan for the next year.
Explore, practice, and share innovative methods for inclusive and open engagement with educators, learners and governments around the world.
email list: cc-openedu@googlegroups.com
If you have trouble joining the list, please contact jennryn at creativecommons dot org (and she will add you)
Slack: sign up: (it will send an invitation email), then sign up to the #cc-openedu channel
https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-open-education-platform/