Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people and communities by equipping them with the legal, technical, and policy solutions that they require to address real challenges on the ground. Creative Commons promotes better sharing of knowledge and culture in ways that serve the public interest. This includes reshaping the open ecosystem to support equitable and pro-social sharing, enhancing open infrastructure to foster sustainable and ethical sharing, and transforming institutions to make knowledge and cultural heritage assets as openly accessible as possible. (Substrategy: Field Building)

Creative Commons offers free, easily understood, machine-readable licenses by which individuals can retain particular rights to their creative work while sharing it with the world on generous terms. This grant would support continued work on tools and monitoring to improve the search and discovery of OER, as well as technical assistance for OER policy efforts. It also would support the few projects remaining after the reintegration of CCLearn, the division dedicated to supporting open learning and OER, into Creative Common's core organization.

With this grant, Creative Commons proposes to develop an Institute for Open Leadership to train new leaders in education, science, and public policy fields on the values and implementation of openness in licensing, policies, and practices. By training new leaders, connecting them to each other, and helping them complete their first capstone open projects in their institutions, the Institute will prepare them to guide emerging movements in open science, open education, open government, and open culture. This project will help fulfill the Program’s goals for capacity building and succession planning in the OER field.