Creative Commons for New Zealand Schools - By Matt McGregor

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

More free More restrictive

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1. Free Licences

2. Projects

We argue:Educational resources should be shared openly, to enable anyone to share, adapt and reuse

First (obvious) point:It's much easier to share work for collaboration and reuse.

First (obvious) point:This massively increases the potential audience for (your) educational resources→ not just the teachers in your school, area or email list

Second point:This means you cannot predict who will find your work useful.

Media Text Hack

CC Kiwi

Third point:There's more content than ever

(and it's easy to find & use).

Man from the city, 1971, by Jan Nigro. Purchased 1971. Te Papa (1971-0036-2)

Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 New Zealand licenceTe Papa

Massed troops at a New Zealand Division thanksgiving service, World War I. Ref: 1/2-013806-G. No known copyright.

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22684353NLNZ; WW100

Geospatial data

National Imagery Photography by LINZ. Licensed CC-BY

data.linz.govt.nz/data/category/aerial-photos/

Fourth point:The technical barriers to access and reuse are dropping ('read-only' --> 'read-write')

‘Lego Life Lessons’ by the Manning Brothers. CC-BY-NC-SA

youtube.com/watch?v=z9p6n3lhpcsLego Life Lessons

Fifth point:Obvious potential to share a massive amount of educational resources for reuse

50,000+ teachers2,500+ schools

Enormous potential to savetime, money & frustration.

50,000+ teachers2,500+ schools

Enormous potential to share &collaborate.

Sixth point:The legal barriers to

dissemination & reuse remain.

Copyright Graffiti Sign by Horia Varlan CC-BY

https://flic.kr/p/7vBD4TCopyright

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

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

→ the BoT does.

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

“Grayson, Westley, Stanislaus County...” via US Nat. ArchivesNo Known Copyright

https://flic.kr/p/8UAPVT What to Do?.

Solution:Develop, share and reuse Open Educational Resources

#1:School: Adopt clear & transparent copyright policies

#2:Teacher: Introduce finding, reusing and making open content into your 'workflow'

Here's the pitch:Creative Commons licences are clear, simple, free, legally robust and you keep your copyright.

Here's the pitch:CC policies clarify IP at schools, while enabling sharing and collaboration.

Four Licence Elements

Attribution

Non Commercial

No Derivatives

Share Alike

Six Licences

More free More restrictive

Layers

Licence symboll

Human readable

Lawyer readable

Go to creativecommons.org/choose

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cIWmV5nCF8o97Nrb8wYZWfQ97FG-4ylNuXezh2nlBBM/edit

Cabinet encourages BoTs to take NZGOAL into account & use CC licensing when releasing resources

BoTs can adapt ASHS's free, CC licensed off-the-shelf policy.

This policy simply gives permission for teachers to share.

1. No need to ask permission

2. Keep resources when you leave

3. Teachers receive credit when their work is reused

4. Share your work on Pond.

“Teachers are collaborating more, and they’re also involving their students in the development of those teaching and

learning resources.”

Mark Osborne, ASHS

creativecommons.org.nznzcommons.org.nz@cc_aotearoamatt@creativecommons.org.nzelizabeth@creativecommons.org.nzgroups.creativecommons.org.nz(we're also on Loomio)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.