Overview

Magnetized Object

Most Magnetized Object in the Universe “by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center licensed under CC BY

Why Needed?

Since its launch in 2001 use of Creative Commons around the world has grown dramatically to the point where in 2015 there were over 1 billion Creative Commons licensed works. Writers, photographers, musicians and other creators use Creative Commons to share works and gain an audience. Cultural organizations including galleries, libraries, archives, and museums use Creative Commons to make their collections accessible to all. Use has broadened out further to include Open Educational Resources, Open Access research publishing, open data, and open science. Governments, non-profit organizations, and businesses around the world are adopting open policies and open strategies that use Creative Commons and the Internet to share and distribute resources to drive a new era of development, growth, and productivity.

With this growth comes a corresponding need to ensure creators, staff, and organizations have a thorough working knowledge of what Creative Commons is and how it works.

The Creative Commons CORE certificate covers the full breadth and depth of learning associated with acquiring comprehensive knowledge about all aspects of Creative Commons. CORE covers a composite set of knowledge and skills associated with responsibilities across multiple roles including practitioners, administrators, and leaders. In addition to being its own standalone certificate, CORE is foundational curricula from which specialized Creative Commons certificates are built. Creative Commons certificates for librarians, educators, and government start with a subset of CORE as foundation, on top of which specialized learning is added specific to how each profession uses Creative Commons.

Foundations

Foundations” by Gregory Bodnar is licensed CC BY-SA

Who is this for?

The Creative Commons CORE Certificate is for those who need deep and comprehensive knowledge of Creative Commons including individuals and organizations wanting to become authorized to deliver Creative Commons certificate training.

What skills and knowledge will you gain?

On completion of the certificate you will be able to:

  • explain relationship of Creative Commons to the public domain, copyright, and the commons
  • state the benefits of Creative Commons licenses
  • effectively use Creative Commons to make resources open and shareable
  • find and use Creative Commons licensed resources
  • advise on strategic use of Creative Commons
  • provide Creative Commons related training and support services
  • plan and advocate for institutional systematic changes towards openness

How does it work? What will I learn?

Learn more about the delivery format and process or explore the modules and units


Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA) version 4.0.

Except where otherwise noted, this content is published under a CC BY-SA license, which means that you can copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon the content for any purpose even commercially as long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
License details: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Creative Commons Certificates have been created with the kind support of Creative Commons, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Creative Commons Core Certificate

CORE Release Alpha 1 v0.2.3 (Mar 06, 2017)