As I re-boot and reconfigure my PIDP program blog site into something more related to my work life and professional development interests, I thought I would start by relating my journey through the Creative Commons Certificate for Educators which begins next week.  I signed up for this certificate course as part of my professional development plan to learn more about open educational practices (OER, open pedagogy, etc.), and to bring them back to my practice and my institution in general in hopes of encouraging more faculty at my institution to develop and integrate open educational practices into their own teaching.

Over the next 10 weeks I will reflect on the certificate discussions and assignments as they relate to my practice as an instructional designer in eLearning, and consider how what I learn can be brought back to the people I work with: other instructional designers, librarians, faculty, the support people in my unit, etc.

But since I don’t have a lot to reflect on yet, given that the course does not start until Monday, let me start by giving you a bit of an outline of the course and the assessments I will be completing on my journey.

Here are the topics I will be exploring, along with participants from all over the world, on this journey;

  • Week 1, Unit 1: What Is Creative Commons
  • Weeks 2+3, Unit 2: Copyright Law
  • Weeks 4+5, Unit 3: Anatomy of a CC License
  • Weeks 6+7, Unit 4: Using CC Licenses and CC-Licensed Works
  • Weeks 8+9, Unit 5: CC for Educators

For assessment, in addition to ungraded quizzes, I will be completing (and reflecting on here):

  • 8 online discussions
  • 5 Unit assignments
  • 1 final project

I look forward to sharing my experiences with you!

You can find out more about the Creative Commons Certificate at https://certificates.creativecommons.org/