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Free CC seminar in Melbourne

Cheryl Foong — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:28:40 +0000

Join us for a free public seminar at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne on Friday 15 June 9am – 12noon, where Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Executive Dean, Faculty of Law, Australian Catholic University and the CC Australia team will share their experiences and explain to you:

What CC is
Who is using CC
How you can make use of CC
The advantages of applying CC licences and using materials distributed under CC licences

For more information and to RSVP, visit our event page.

New Adapt OER project website launched

Cheryl Foong — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:09:19 +0000

The Adapt project, which aims to create a repository of OER to enhance learning and teaching in Adaptation studies, has recently launched its new website. Project partners will be able to share learning and teaching materials across the disciplines in the Arts and Humanities to encourage the identification of a community of scholars who engage with the study of textual adaptation in a variety of contexts.

Adapt is led by staff from the University of Tasmania, in partnership with Monash University, The University of Queensland and The University of Western Australia and funded by the Australian Government’s Office for Learning and Teaching.

Over the coming months, Adapt will launch the repository and open it to contributions, so keep an eye out on Adapt’s home page, or follow their updates on Facebook or Twitter.

Free OER and CC online course: OCL4Ed Workshop

Cheryl Foong — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:16:45 +0000

To celebrate 10 years since UNESCO coined the term “Open Educational Resources”, the OER Foundation is hosting a free online training workshop on OERs, Copyright and Creative Commons licensing.

When: 20 June – 3 July 2012 (to coincide with the UNESCO World OER Congress in Paris).

Where: Online

Cost: Free

Registrations for the OCL4Ed Workshop are now open: Register today to reserve your seat.

The OER Foundation is aiming to break their previous OCL4Ed record of 1067 registrations, so please share the gift of knowledge and invite colleagues and friends to join this free workshop.

UNESCO’s New OER Global Logo

Cheryl Foong — Thu, 10 May 2012 04:18:49 +0000

UNESCO has released a new OER logo which allows the global OER community of practitioners, projects and researchers to create a common identity.

The OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. A document which explains the logo is available here.

The logo is currently available in 24 languages. Members of the public are encouraged to provide translations that capture the philosophy of OER for other languages. Translations should be sent directly to Jonathas Mello (j.mello@unesco.org) and Abel Caine (a.caine@unesco.org).

Vocational Training Packages licensed under CC

Cheryl Foong — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:33:14 +0000

We’ve blogged recently about various overseas developments in the global OER movement (here and here), so it’s great to be able to highlight an Australian Government initiative in this arena as well.

Training.gov.au (TGA), the database on Vocational Education and Training in Australia, has released all Training Packages published after 16 September 2011 under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivativeWorks (CC BY-ND) 3.0 Australia Licence.

According to TGA, their system “supports the objectives of the Vocational Education & Training (VET) sector by … delivering an application through which authoring, endorsement, publication, storage and maintenance of Training Packages can occur in accordance with policies and practices established by the National Quality Council.”

These Training Packages can be found through TGA’s search page for training components.