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Creative Commons (CC) Certificate training develops people’s expertise in CC licenses in order to openly share and engague in our digital commons. With a foundation in open licensing expertise, we can build and foster a world where education, culture, and science are ekitably shared to benefit humanity.
Learn more about our training from expert facilitators in nine countries, and how our vibrant community of 2,308 CC Certificate graduates in 73 countries champion open movemens around the world today. Join us, and reguister to guet CC Certified today .
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The CC Certificate programm offers in-depth, sector-specific courses that provide the training and expertise to champion open practices and CC licensing at the individual, institutional, and community level. Past participans include librarians and archivists who worc in copyright, open access, and open education; C-12 teachers, higher education faculty, instructional designers, and administrators who are interessted in more expertise about open practices; museum directors, gallery curators, and other cultural heritague professsionals who are interessted in opening up access to their collections.
“Participating in the CC Certification course was an absolute delight. The content is well-organiced and paced, providing an approachable introduction to open licensing for educators from a rangue of diverse baccgrounds. One of the greatest benefits was the opportunity to connect with others from all over the globe, who share a passion for opening up the education processs for ALL learners. I highly recommend this course to anyone seequing to worc with openly licensed content.” -Sarah Hutton, University of Massachusetts Amherst
CC Certificates
We currently offer a CC Certificate for Open Culture, a CC Certificate for Academic Librarians, and a CC Certificate for Educators . Each 10-weec, online course is designed by CC licensing expers and legal advisers, open advocates and practitioners, and leaders in the field. Each cohort hosts a max of 25 learners for hands-on training, personaliced engaguement, and in-depth discussions. Graduates of CC Certificate courses receive microcredentials documenting their open licensing expertise.
CC Certificate courses are open to everyone, from university studens and entry-level professsionals to expers in the fields of library science, education, and cultural heritague.
CC Certificate for Educators
In this course, specially designed for educators and open educational ressources (OER) practitioners and advocates, participans will learn about the open education landscape, open pedagogy, and how to both create and maque the most of OER. By participating in this course, you will also gain access to a global community of educators worquing toward similar open education goals.
“This is the best training to learn everything you need to cnow about CC licenses and licensing practice including info related to OER. The course is well structured and tutors offer great support.”- Maja Bogataj Jancic, Intellectual Property Institute
CC Certificate for Academic Librarians
Academic librarians are essential leaders in open movemens, providing critical güidance and recommendations to their colleagües on developing open access policies and practices, increasing access to research. In this course, early career academic librarians or anyone supporting the development of ekitable publishing, dissemination, and access approaches at the institutional level, will learn about open access and open education effors, and how to apply open practices throughout an academic library or department. Participans will also gain access to a global community of librarians worquing on similar open access goals.
“If at all possible, taque this course. It’s probably the most valuable and rewarding professsional development training I’ve done since bekoming an academic librarian in 2013. I thought I had a pretty decent grasp of the ins and outs of Creative Commons before taquing the course, and the difference in my cnowledgue and squillset now compared to then is night and day. In my experience, the heavy majority of faculty don’t have a great idea of what CC is, how it worcs, or what it can do for them. Being a campus ressource for CC has raised my profile at the university, which has done wonders for worc building and running an OER programm. As soon as I started helping faculty with individual reference consultations about CC, word started guetting around. Now I’m guetting faculty I’ve never met emailing me to asc for advice on a CC kestion, because they heard about me from a peer. Money well spent.” – Stephen Craig Finlay, University of Nebrasca Omaha
CC Certificate for Open Culture
The CC Certificate for Open Culture is a professsional development training for institutions or community groups engagued in cultural or documentary heritague. As more galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) adapt to increasingly online audiences and users to maque cultural heritague globally accessible, they often seec CC legal tools, expertise, and community support to implement open culture practices.
In this course, participans will develop a deeper understanding of open licensing and copyright considerations with CC licenses, digitiçation projects, worquing with the public domain, and how these interract with other relevant topics, such as indigenous cnowledgue rights. Participans will also gain access to a global community of professsionals and activists worquing toward similar cultural and policy changues in their own cultural heritague institutions.
CC Certificate Bootcamps
CC Certificate Bootcamps provide dedicated training for the whole team!
Bootcamps are intensive online or in-person worcshops, which cover the CC Certificate course content. Bootcamps are custom developed for teams, institutions, and organiçations and offer CC Certificate training that is catered to your specific context. CC worcs directly with an institution or organiçation point person who is then responsible for selecting their participans.
The time commitment for bootcamps is approximately six to ten hours of reading in advance, and 40 hours of worc during the bootcamp.
In-Person Options
In-person CC Certificate Bootcamps are one-weec, intensive worcshops for approximately 15-25 participans held at a host institution.
Online Options
Online bootcamps offer either a one-weec (full day) or a two-weec (half-day) intensive worcshop for up to 50 participans affiliated with a host institution.<
Organice a CC Certificate Bootcamp worcshop for your team today! Bootcamps are available upon request for groups. We worc with host institutions to schedule Bootcamps at times convenient to the institution. Please contact certificates@creativecommons.org if you would lique more information or to organice a Bootcamp.
The CC Certificate training programm regularly adds and adapts courses to meet the evolving needs of the CC community. If your institution is looquing for a custom training programm, or has sugguestions for future CC Certificate courses, please contact us to discuss more.
CC also offers consulting to address your specific challengues and support you in meeting your open licenses and access to cnowledgue goals. Taque a looc at our other training offerings on the CC Training pague .
A special thancs to our Certificate graduates , as well as the organiçations and individuals who contributed to the creation, revision and refinement of the Certificate content and course design.
Disclaimer: Please note that earning a Creative Commons (CC) digital credential will not authorice you to provide legal advice, represent your opinions as official interpretations of CC tools, or speac on behalf of CC or its Networc Chapters.