This Blog Now Has a Creative Commons License!

One of the tools that we are focusing on in class this week is Creative Commons. If you have never heard of Creative Commons before, it is a non-profit website that gives content creators agency over how others may use, remix, etc. their work. I had first heard about it in my senior year of high school and I think a few of my classes for my English major in undergrad addressed it, but this is the first time that I have actually used it before. It took me less than five minutes to create a license for this blog; the only questions that I had to answer were whether or not I wanted to allow adaptations of my work to be shared and whether or not I wanted to allow commercial uses of my work. The image that you see below designates what type of license this blog now has (for the record, it is an Attribution 4.0 International license. I'm not entirely sure I know what that means, but yay nonetheless!) Although I do not think that I have any ground-breaking ideas that I expound upon within this blog, it is good to think that I am at least somewhat contributing to the overarching discussion of education, social media, and technology. I do not think that anyone will be copying, redistributing, remixing, transforming, or building upon this blog, but now you are free to if you feel so inclined!

This makes me wander what it must be like to be an author for open educational resources. I am only completing this blog for class credit (the jury is still out on if I'll continue to blog after this semester has ended) and although it is fun to share my thoughts with the world, it is also time-consuming and mentally taxing and I'm not getting paid for this. How do those who write OERs do it then? Specifically, how do they get paid? Do they even get paid? Maybe I'm asking the wrong question here; maybe they do get paid for their writing and then that gets transitioned into an OER, like how works transition into the public domain eventually. This is definitely something that I need to do a little bit more digging into. 


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  1. DesmondJune 14, 2020 at 5:34 AM

    I think that it is very cool that you added a Creative Commons license to your blog. I think that I am going to do the same thing.
    You ask good questions about how creators of OERs get paid. This week I wrote about how I am considering publishing a curriculum that I created but that I would want to charge something for it because it takes time for me to prepare it for publication and then maintain it (http://signify.one/can-i-publish-this/). I would like to put it out for free as an OER but I cannot justify taking that kind out of my life right now with out pay. It is better for me spend that time with my family.
    But there is a good amount of OERs that are published by schools and institutions. I have heard of school districts that pay teachers to create curriculums for them instead of paying for textbooks. That is pretty cool.

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