How can we improve current licenses and facilitate their broad usage for open learning worldwide?
This panel will discuss a current topic that needs to be addressed urgently: How can we improve current licenses and facilitate their broad usage for open learning worldwide? Open Education is an increasing requirement due to dramatic changes in societies. The big challenge is that openness is defined in various ways and dimensions such as open educational resources, open access, open textbooks, etc. Open licenses can support and increase open education but lacking broad usage worldwide. Next to the general challenge that most educators are not aware of them, there is another problem that needs to be discussed among experts and interested open educators: Creative Commons as the most known and used legal licenses are distinguishing among categories that are not easy to understand and not covering all potential cases: (1) Attribution, (2) Derivation, (3) Commercialisation, and (4) Sharing. The panel will discuss the need to simplify the legal open licenses as well as to include additional categories that are important in several national laws, legal systems and regulations.
Panelists:
Christian Stracke (ICORE), Moderator
Svetlana Knyazeva, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
Cable Green, Creative Commons
