Orientation

Hello wider world, my name is Sharon Cook and I'm using this blog to reflect on and review my progress through an open online course called Open Content Licensing for Educators September 2013. 

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Open content licensing for educators is a free micro Open Online Course (mOOC) designed for educators who want to learn more about open education resources, copyright, and creative commons licenses. This course will help me to (from the course aims):

• Reflect on the practice of sharing knowledge in education and the permissions educators consider fair and reasonable;
• Define what constitutes an open education resource (OER);
• Explain how international copyright functions in a digital world;
• Distinguish the types of Creative Commons licenses and explain how they support open education approaches;
• Acquire the prerequisite knowledge required by educators to legally remix open education materials and help institutions to take informed decisions about open content licenses;
• Use social media technologies to support your learning;
• Connect with educators around the world to share thoughts and experiences in relation to copyright, OER and Creative Commons.

More information about the course can be found on the course main page here

I'll also be Tweeting throughout the course using my ID @S_Cook2013