Commons News

UNESCO’s New OER Global Logo

Cheryl Foong, 10th May 2012

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 … Continue reading

Vocational Training Packages licensed under CC

Cheryl Foong, 3rd May 2012

    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 … Continue reading

Australian Government IP Manual and Guidelines on Licensing PSI

Cheryl Foong, 24th April 2012

The Australian Government has recently released two documents which implement the Government’s Statement of Intellectual Property Principles for Australian Government Agencies: Guidelines on Licensing Public Sector Information for Australian Government Agencies; and Australian Government Intellectual Property Manual (“IP Manual”). Both … Continue reading

NY Times highlights the significance OER

Cheryl Foong, 23rd April 2012

An article in the New York Times, Building Schools Out of Clicks, Not Bricks, has recently emphasised the importance of the growing Open Education Resources (OER) movement, and its potential to close the knowlege divide between different regions around the … Continue reading

New search tool by CC Korea – Let’s CC!

Cheryl Foong, 20th April 2012

CC Korea has recently released a great search tool called Let’s CC, which is available at http://eng.letscc.net. It allows a single search to be carried out across a range of CC-licensed images, sounds, videos and documents available on portals such … Continue reading