[FC-discuss] ccLearn intern position at Creative Commons

[Kevin Driscoll]

I am very excited to hear about the momentum happening at ccLearn.
Keep us updated!  The original post was appropriate and appreciated.

Kevin



On 10/24/07, Mike Linksvayer <ml at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 10:56 +0930, Janet Hawtin wrote:
> > The access to knowledge movement is also thinking about means of
> > valuing which enable
> > the social and ecological and medical roles of information as a social
> > good as a primary goal, with copyright being just one tool we have
> > employed to express value which has cost us in these Access to
> > Knowledge respects.
> >
> > CC currently operates on the assumption that copyright is THE means
> > for deriving value.
>
> CC licenses address copyright, but in no way make the assumption above.
>
> And ccLearn is very explicit about not seeing copyright as the only
> barrier (let alone the sole means!) to deriving value, right on
> http://learn.creativecommons.org --
>
>
> ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to
> realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning
> and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize
> barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers,
> technical barriers, and social barriers.
>
>       * With legal barriers, we advocate for licensing of educational
>         materials under interoperable terms, such as those provided by
>         Creative Commons licenses, that allow unhampered modification,
>         remixing, and redistribution. We also educate teachers,
>         learners, and policy makers about copyright and fair-use issues
>         pertaining to education.
>       * With technical barriers, we promote interoperability standards
>         and tools to facilitate remixing and reuse.
>       * With social barriers, we encourage teachers and learners to
>         re-use educational materials available on the Web, and to build
>         on each other's contributions.
>
> > Sometimes it is hard to think beyond the models we use in daily life
> > because they are so intrinsic to the way we are currently. Copyright
> > has been built around the industrial business model and is a poor fit
> > for collaborative diffuse generation of knowledge and value which is
> > possible with the internet. People are looking for ways to work which
> > are a closer match to the A2K values for information in society, and
> > also which are supportive of diffuse collaboration as a means of
> > aggregating value. It would be great if the Free Culture group could
> > be a part of that broader conversation.
>
> Certainly.
>
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