Warning: possible technical jargon will follow, all efforts are being made to keep it to a minimum. In our recent presentation at the 2017 Creative Commons Summit I attempted to explain how the content source for the Certificates lives as Markdown format in GitHub (that’s minus two jargon points). Since we have a group of […]
In anticipation for Saturday’s presentation of the Certificates project at the Creative Commons Global Summit this is yet another round at explaining the architecture (still developing), as likely a lot of details will not be covered. My idea/goal/dream has been not to pick or designate a single platform for the certificate (at least for the […]
During our recent project team meeting we had an idea to share the status of the Creative Commons Certification for Open Education Week: You are free to browse the current completed Core Certification units published here in WordPress or the same source content that originates in GitHub. But we are asking as one that fits […]
We have a lot of changes “under the hood” here as well as some new graphic identity for the certificates developed for a “Hack the Cred” presentation by Paul Stacey and Creative Commoners at the recent Open Education Global conference. Now on the front of the site, the project news is pushed down a bit, […]
I might not refer to making Open Educational Resources (OERs) as “easier” but it is more familiar to educators than the idea of creating Assignments that are not “disposable”. David Wiley described the term “disposable assignments” in a 2013 post on Open Pedagogy. It’s a brilliant approach to talk to educators about designing open materials, […]
While I have a fairly well-formed image in my head how the Creative Commons Certification system will flow, at times (many times) despite efforts to sketch and explain, I wonder if others do. I will keep trying. And I think/hope it will be clearer as we roll out in the next month or two, more […]
We’ve definitely been going down Robert Frost’s lesser travel roads of development for the certifications. tl;nr (too long; nobody reads): A long stream of sketches and linked prototypes interspersed with some technical jargon of how all of this might be stitched together. While the development team is researching and drafting the content for the units, […]
Since the end of September our team has run 10 weekly Creative Commons (CC) related activities published on this site and to twitter under the #CCquest hashtag. The idea was to create a small challenge around an aspect of CC that could be answered (and shared) in a single tweet. It emerged from our project […]
Is it all about the licenses? Many explanations of Creative Commons make it sounds simple, walk through the questions of the chooser, and out plops the correct license. Go share. It does work well. But deeper understanding often leads to greyer area, where the answers spiral down to technical and jargon related insider language. We […]
Lists of links… the desire to “curate” lists of web resources is almost as old as the web itself; in our project can we turn the output of resource collection into an open resource itself? Bear with me on probably a bit too much back story… Back in 1993, my first exposure into the web […]
