Presentation from the CC in Schools events on March 12, 13 and 17.

3. Our goal:
“To realise the potential of the
internet.”

4. Our goal:
“Universal access to research
and education, full
participation in culture.”

5. More free More restrictive
1
1. Free Licences

6. 2. Projects

7. Schools: Creative Commons
Policies

8. Let's begin with the obvious.

9. First point:
It’s becoming much easier to
access and reuse works online.

11. Second point:
It hasn't always been easy to
build on other works.

12. Family watching television, c. 1958. National Archives and Records
Administration. 1944 – 2006. No known copyright.

13. Third point:
The technical barriers to
access and reuse are dropping

14. Screenshot from ‘Lego Life Lessons - Safety Tips for Walking to School’
by the Manning Brothers. Made available under a Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike licence.

15. Fourth point:
Obvious potential to share a
massive amount of educational
resources for reuse

16. 50,000+ teachers
2,500+ schools
Enormous potential to save
time, money & frustration.

17. 50,000+ teachers
2,500+ schools
Enormous potential to share &
collaborate.

18. Fifth point:
The legal barriers to
dissemination & reuse remain.

20. Copyright is very restrictive.
Automatic.
Applies online.
No 'c' required.
Lasts for 50 years after death.

21. This means you legally need an
exception or permission.

22. Exception =
Fair Dealing (v limited)

23. Permission =
1. Collecting society licences
(limited)
2. Creative Commons (open)
3. Out-of-copyright (v open)
4. Other forms of permission

24. Sixth point:
Teachers don’t own copyright
to resources they produce in
the course of their
employment.

25. Seventh point:
Most schools don't have clear
IP policies on sharing & reuse.

26. “Grayson, Westley, Stanislaus County, Western San Joaquin Valley, California. Seventh and eighth grade
class in Westley school after lesson in Geography” 1940, US National Archives 83-G-41445, via Flickr. No
known copyright.
What to do?

28. Open education is global:
US: $2 billion TAAACT Grant
Utah & CA: open textbook
Mongolia: OER Hub
Latin America: Project LATiN
Poland: Open textbooks
& across India, Africa, EU,
Asia...

29. And New Zealand is leading the
way:
40-50 CC schools (up from 4 in
March 2013)
Otago Poly and Lincoln U
OER Universitas
OER Foundation
Next step: Other NZ resources

30. How we can help:
Workshops
Creativecommons.org.nz/workshops
Web resources
Creativecommons.org.nz/education
Print resources
admin@creativecommons.org.nz
Mentors/community
admin@creativecommons.org.nz
groups.creativecommons.org.nz

31. How you can help
Tell us about your experiences!

32. creativecommons.org.nz
@cc_Aotearoa
admin@creativecommons.org.nz
groups.creativecommons.org.nz
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License.
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