[cc-community] Teaching Commons: CC at School

Dessi Pefeva dpefeva at isoc.bg
Thu Jun 21 16:05:25 EDT 2007


Dear Ralf,

This is an EU funded project for Science, Education and Learning in 
Freedom (SELF) www.selfproject.eu

Focused on creation & modification of educational materials on Free 
Software and Open standards, using free licenses.

Dessi


RalfGesellensetter wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> http://www.teachingcommons.ca/ is only one small example of how Creative 
> Commons could (and should) enter schools.
>
> As it comes to education and the transfer of knowledge from generation 
> to generation, the importance of free (and thus mobile) resources 
> becomes very obvious.
>
> I wonder if there is any larger communities of teachers, dealing with 
> work sheets and teaching material under free (cc-alike) licence?
>
> Apart from wiki books (possibly host for free school books)
>
> http://creativecommons.org/education/ points to quite few sites.
>
> As for Germany (my home country), there are several community pages 
> sharing educational stuff - but mostly under pending/unknown licenses. 
>
> Possibly, a new set of licences could make sense for schools in order to 
> make governmental and official institutions use them. Of course it is 
> better to keep the amount of different licences low (to 
> ease "share-alike" handling) - but maybe you have an idea for an 
> attractive "lable" to tag educational stuff with:
>
> Suggestions:
> Educative Commons / Teaching Commons / Free Knowledge / Public Heritage
> ...
>
> Regards
> Ralf
>
> P.S.: Thinking about it, an extension of the BY-tag could make sense, 
> claiming the naming of the parent version and of its first anchestor 
> like this: Derived from <PARENT WORK>, based on the work <ANCHESTOR>.
> This makes it easier to keep track of great amounts of variations of a 
> work sheet (which might make sense in Math exams for instance).
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