Free Online Course from Canvas: The Easy Way To Create, License, And Share Free Materials

Canvas Network is offering a free online course on The Easy Way To Create, License, And Share Free Materials. This course encourages faculty to participate in developing and improving OER by demonstrating some simple steps by which materials can be generated or collected, licensed, and shared. It only makes sense that fostering collaboration on and improvement of resources with educational best practices in mind will, ultimately, translate into a more diverse, higher-quality case of materials that educators worldwide can use and continue to make better.

Course duration:

1 hr/week

Target Audience:

Faculty/Instructors in any discipline or at any grade level.

Course objectives:

Participants will learn:

1. Accurately define and identify Open Educational Resources (OER).
2. Describe the six Creative Commons licenses.
3. Demonstrate appropriate attribution.
4. Design a plan for incorporating OER materials in a class, curriculum, or college.
5. Design a plan for creating OER materials and how to appropriately license open materials.
6. Determine how to gain permission to use a copyrighted work in an open resource.

About Canvas Network:

To promote OPENNESS, INNOVATION, and EXPERIMENTATION in education by providing educators access to professional development courses and programs that will help them thrive and succeed in their careers.

To Canvas Network ‘open’ means:

• Open entry and open access. Open entry for learners around the globe and continual access to course content after the course end date.
• Open content. Open licensing options and content sharing to Canvas Commons where other instructors reuse, revise, remix, retain, and redistribute content.
• Open platform and ecosystem. Open platform to integrate and innovate with third-party tools.
• Open data. Open, de-identified Canvas Network data for researchers to analyze and synthesize.
• Platform neutrality. Your course. Your goals. Your way. We provide the platform for open innovation and experimentation.