Who is this session for?
Accessibility professional, Content, Designer, Management, Professor, Student, Project Management
Session description
Whether you know it or not, much of our collective learning and knowledge sharing is powered by Creative Commons. In this session, Creative Commons will reveal how much of our education is built atop Creative Commons licenses: from WordPress sites, Canvas courses, all of the content on Wikipedia, TedX talks, to a countless stream of news articles from approximately 180 news outlets around the world, CC licenses are used to legally share knowledge. Creative Commons is everywhere!
Join us for a quick lesson in copyright, and a look at why CC licenses are essential to our everyday knowledge sharing. Bonus: we’ll show you how easy it is to apply a CC license to your own work!
CC is a global nonprofit organization that addresses the world’s most pressing challenges through advancing open access to culture and knowledge. We built and steward the open licenses that power millions of people’s unfettered access to culture, research, information, education and more. There are over 2.5 billion CC licenses being used across 9 million websites.
Presenter
Jennryn Wetzler
Jennryn Wetzler is the Director of Learning and Training at Creative Commons. At Creative Commons (CC), she has the joy of forming collaborative partnerships around the world; with partners, she develops programs and open licensing training to increase open access to knowledge and culture in the public interest. Prior to CC, Jennryn worked at the U.S. Department of State, piloting using Open Educational Resources (OER) for public diplomacy and global partnerships. She’s also enjoyed gaining a different perspective of education through language studies and international development work in Egypt, Niger, and Thailand. Jennryn has a Masters in ‘Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs’ from American University’s School for International Service. Now based in Maryland, Jennryn lives with her husband, two kiddos and an adopted cat that acts much more like a dog.
Sessions
- Lightning Talk: The Secret Sauce to our Shared Knowledge: Creative Commons licenses and how to use them
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