[cc-education] Making it easier for educators
Alexander, Bryan
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Thu Oct 23 09:48:39 EDT 2003
Bryan Alexander
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Wiley [mailto:dw2 at opencontent.org <mailto:dw2 at opencontent.org> ]
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 8:37 PM
To: development of an education license or license option for Creative
Commons
Subject: [cc-education] Making it easier for educators
So I want to check a few things.
1. Are members of this list interested in seeing more educational content
released under cc licenses?
In the dual interest of seeing CC flourish and expanding educational
opportunities, yes.
2. Do members of this list think that in order to get more educational
content licensed by a cc license we need more educators to understand the cc
message and how it relates to education?
Certainly... but realizing that most educators have received a
pitiful copyright education, on average, and that there's a lot of work to
do.
3. Do members of this list think that someone has to purposefully intervene
in order to efficiently and effectively help a significant number of
educators understand the cc message and how it relates to education?
I'm not sure I understand this, either - do you mean, as opposed to
letting the CC and CC-edu word just percolate through the Web and word of
mouth?
4. Do members of this list think that a branding of a cc license
configuration as an "Education License" and an awareness campaign are a good
way to bring about this understanding, and hence, more cc-licensed
educational materials?
A CC-edu subset would provide a way in to copyright for a good deal
of educators, yes.
If no to any of these, where is the flaw and what would you change?
One major problem is the dual presence of copyright in popular
discussions, broadly: the "thick" argument of RIAA, MPAA, APA, etc; the
"reformist" argument of Lessig, ALA, etc. That duality is a bit off-putting
on a variety of levels: the politicization scares some; the uncertainty
unnerves other; the stakes raised are daunting. It's hard for the CC
message to get through in this battlefield. Moreover, there's the
possibility of a third way to handle copyrighted materials beyond CC,
between Educause's engagement with the RIAA, the rise of iTunes, and
experiments with college-owned p2p (cf LionShare). Perhaps, from one angle,
what needs to change is getting out the word with a better sense of how CC
covers the whole cycle of IP production, ownership, and usage. Maybe some
cases of educators (teachers, librarians) and students going through this
cycle, as owners and users, would help - i.e, a class makes a collaborative
textbook and puts it online under a CC-edu, and uses materials from a
teacher's writing learning object also under a CC-edu.
D
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