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"Open Education Resources (OER) just got a big boost this weekend. Long time OER champion Dr. Catherine Casserly was just elected yesterday to the Board of Directors of Creative Commons to help provide further direction for the Open Education Resources movement worldwide. 2010-02-01-Casseerly4.jpg For those of you who never heard of OER, let me explain. In brief, OER is high quality learning materials that are freely available for use, remixing and redistribution; the name was first adopted by UNESCO in 2002. The push to further develop OER comes at a critical time when schools nationwide are seeking ways to improve learning. Creative Commons (CC) plays a major role in the OER movement as it provides the legal structure for sharing creative works and making them available for others to build upon and share. The CC organization has six licenses that allow creators to share their works easily."

"So, let me make one final plea, to bring you into this battle. You all know, we are in the middle of a war. I don't mean - actually, we are in the middle of many wars - I mean actually one war here, the copyright war. War that the late Jack Valenti, my friend - extraodinary man - used to refer to as his own "terrorist war"? - where apparently , the terrorists in this war are our children. (audience laughs). So we organize and wage war against these terrorists. We talk about this as a war that needs to be waged against these pirates. And the thing that we need to recognize as educators, as scientists, as parents, as people who understand the potential and uses of this technology, is: we can't kill this technology, we can only criminalize it. We're not going to stop our kids from creating the way they create, ways that we couldn't even begin to imagine creating, at least when I was growing up. We can only drive that creativity underground. We can't make our kids passive, the way that, again, I was passive growing up, the way Souza feared. We can only make them "pirates". And the question we, as a culture, need to ask is: Is that any good? Our kids live in this age of prohibitions, in all sorts of contexts of their life. They live life against the law. We tell them they live life against the law and they recognize their behavior is against the law. That recognition is extraordinarily corrosive, extraordinarily corruptive of the rule of law in a democracy. 3571.076838 3590.998233 You, each of you, all of us, have let this insanity happen. You, each of you, all of us, could, if we actually stood up and did something about it, make it stop. Thank you very much."

"Science Commons has three interlocking initiatives designed to accelerate the research cycle - the continuous production and reuse of knowledge that is at the heart of the scientific method. Together, they form the building blocks of a new collaborative infrastructure to make scientific discovery easier by design. Making scientific research "re-useful" - We help people and organizations open and mark their research and data for reuse. We are also exploring new models for licensing patents and know how. Learn more. Enabling "one-click" access to research materials - We help streamline the materials-transfer process so researchers can easily replicate, verify and extend research. Learn more. Integrating fragmented information sources - We help researchers find, analyze and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language. Learn more."

"Session Type: General Session Thursday Nov 5th, 2009 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Wells Fargo Theater 5263 reads In this talk, Lawrence Lessig will review the progress of the "open access" movement in education. He will make a call for educators to finally resolve this issue in a way that enables the potential of technology for education. * Speakers * Resources and Video Speakers Lawrence Lessig Director, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and Professor of Law Harvard University "

On November 5, 2009, Lawrence Lessig gave a talk entitled It Is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right at the Educause 2009 Congress. The talk is available * as an audio recording: http://www-cdn.educause.edu/sites/default/files/e09-lessig-session.mp3 (Running time: 60:23 minutes 27.64 MB) * as a video: http://blip.tv/file/2827842 * for download as a .flv video file (200 Mb) from Michael Paskevicius' Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right blog post (Nov. 12, 2009)