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Creative Commons: Create, Distribute, and Use Content on the Internet

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Reviewed:: Mar 20, 2025 by Teacher Education

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Overview:

This course is completely self-paced, and every participant can take it anytime and anywhere that suits their convenience. The course is designed as an active learning experience, guided by a novel mental model called the CLEAR approach (Create, Learn, Extend, Apply, Remember). This approach will allow all participants to create digital assets following the Creative Commons licensing guidance by engaging them directly in online active learning activities. The goal is to deliver the course in the approach of learning by doing.

Type of Material:

Online Course

Recommended Uses:

The course is divided into 5 sections. Each section targets to amplify the user´s knowledge on creative commons material. At the end of each section, participants will take a quiz which will measure their understanding of the shared material and activities they have been completing. All work will be consolidated in an e-portfolio CC licensing. All along the course, clear instructions have been included per each section.

This course could be used in many ways including as lecture materials, assigned as homework, self-paced for either individual or group learning.

Technical Requirements:

Reliable internetBrowser based. Online access to Google Classroom using a personal Gmail account (does not work with a school gmail account.)

Identify Major Learning Goals:

The website is an online course hosted on google. It has been structured under the guideliness of creative commons. The activities and the course design aim to guide users into the implicatios of creating material available for all users in the web. The course is open to all types of professionals but the ones dedicated to education will highly see a benefit from exploring it.

The goal of the course is to educate the user about Creative Commons licensing. The objectives for the course are clearly listed:

After finishing this course, participants will be able to:

Identify six types of CC licenses.
Describe the meaning of each CC license.
Tell the differences between different CC licenses.
Understand the basics of copyright.
Increase awareness of copyright.
Capable to use and share other people’s creations in a proper manner.
Capable to share own creations under CC licenses in a proper format.

Target Student Population:

College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

No prerequisite knowledge is needed, however, users should have some familiarity with navigating a website and basic computing skills.

The course will require to interact with a good number of sites and will need the capacity to manage different websites at the same time.

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The course guides users into creating their own digital portfolio addressing the creative common format.

Interestingly, this course is built on the author's newly developed model for teaching and learning, however, their model is based upon valid concepts. CLEAR although a new theory, is very well explained to begin this course and teachers will recognize the model is based on accepted educational concepts.

Understanding creative commons licensing is essential for creating and using OER so this course is something anyone who uses OER should learn. The author provides the learner with opportunities to see what they already know, practice learning and produce a final portfolio to demonstrate their knowledge.

Concerns:

The CLEAR model has not been peer reviewed, however, interest has increased in this coaching model.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Learning objectives are stated so they user will know exactly what they will be able to do when they complete the course. Students being with a pre-test which helps them to determine how useful the course will be to increasing their knowledge.

The course includes materials such as videos and Google docs, provides the learning assignments, practice, and assessment so a teacher could simply assign this course over a semester and evaluate the final portfolio assignment for a grade. Templates are also provided.

Or a teacher could use the course to increase their own knowledge of CC.

Concerns:

This course is very effective for teaching Creative Commons licensing.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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The course takes place in a Google Classroom created by the author. They have organized the course so that if directions are followed, a student can easily navigate the course using the top and side navigation links.

The course is easy to follow. The creator clearly states the process to start, advance in each section, and finalize with all the course requirements.

Sections are easy to visualize.

Other Issues and Comments:

Note: Access the course using your personal Gmail account(N OT your school gmail account) by either the invitation link (the Material link above)or use the Google Classroom course codemrur2g2.

https://classroom.google.com/c/Mzc1MTE1MTM2MDIy?cjc=mrur2g2 .

A video did not have audio and a YouTube video explaining CLEAR had a link to the wrong template. The author was notified and fixed the issues. She is happy to receive your feedback as explained in the course.

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