The CC Certificate is a rigorous 10-week online course, which requires an average of 6-10 hours of work per week.\u00a0 While this course is mostly asynchronous, you will have graded materials due every week and a minimum of four optional webinars. You will have direct contact with an expert facilitator (class ratio is ~25:1), the chance to ask questions to copyright lawyers in our Q&A discussions, and you will connect with our global community members of activists, and experts.<\/p>\n
The CC Certificate empowers you with knowledge to better advise your colleagues and institutions on creating and engaging with openly licensed works. You will learn how to adapt and innovate on existing openly licensed materials\u2014keeping your institution\u2019s knowledge base relevant and up to date. You will also learn how to best support learners accessing a wider array of open knowledge resources. Finally, the Certificate equips you with skills needed to meet open licensing requirements increasingly present in government and foundation grants and contracts.<\/p>\n
Currently, we offer Certificate \u201ctracks\u201d for (1) academic librarians, (2) educators, and (3) open culture. However, the Certificate is open to everyone, from university students and entry-level professionals to experts. Participants join the course from a variety of roles in academic institutions and NGOs including: instructional designers, professors, program managers, emeritus librarians, scholarly communication librarians, data engineers, deans and directors, copyright managers, and more. We hope to offer Certificate courses for more fields in the future.<\/p>\n
You can register for the CC Certificate here: https:\/\/www.creativecommons.org\/programs\/certificate\/registration\/<\/a><\/p>\n Registration for the year will open no later than January 1st of that year.<\/p>\n Yes, we can accommodate a bulk purchase. If you wish to be invoiced for your purchase, please reach out to certificates@creativecommons.org.<\/p>\n Creative Commons offers the following discounts to institutions enrolling large groups in the CC Certificate:<\/p>\n Yes, we do, please visit https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc-trainings\/<\/a> or reach out to certificates@creativecommons.org for additional bootcamp information.<\/p>\n As a nonprofit, we need to cover the costs associated with running the CC Certificate program. CC Certificate course fees allow us to\u00a0 pay facilitators, maintain the website, manage payment and registration systems, pay staff to update and verify the accuracy of new content, host webinars, facilitate the growing community of Certificate graduates, and more. We would love to offer these courses at no cost to participants; however, doing so would require a sustainable funding source. (Are you interested in funding the CC Certificate program? Contact <\/i>development@creativecommons.org<\/i><\/a>.) Based on funding sources, we aspire to provide scholarships to the CC Certificate course each year. For more information, contact, certificates@creativecommons.org.<\/p>\n If it is more than 30 days before the course start date, you can get a full refund by reaching out to certificates@creativecommons.org. If you are within 30 days of the start date, we cannot issue you a refund, but you may be able to transfer your registration to a friend or colleague, depending on the timing of your request.<\/p>\n If it is more than 15 days before the course start date, you may be able to defer by reaching out to certificates@creativecommons.org.\u00a0 If it is less than 15 days, we may not be able to accommodate this request.<\/p>\n Reach out to certificates@creativecommons.org. Note that if the course you intended to register for is sold out, you will be issued a refund.<\/p>\n The billing contact receives the receipt for the transaction. If you do not see it, please check your spam.<\/p>\n Two to three weeks in advance of the course start date, you will receive a welcome and logistics email (to the address you provided in registration). Approximately one week prior to the course, you will receive two emails with: (1) your course syllabus, (2) a link to self-enroll in your Canvas course, (3) an invitation to join our Slack discussion channel, and (4) an introduction to your facilitator. Once you have access to your Canvas course, you are welcome to get a head start on the reading and assignments, though there is no obligation to do so.<\/p>\n While each learner devotes different amounts of time to the Certificate, and coursework varies from week to week, participant surveys suggest course work takes an average of 6 to 10 hours per week.<\/p>\n We understand circumstances change. We wish we had more options to offer participants who can no longer complete their coursework, but here are our two:<\/p>\n Beyond these two options above, possibilities are unfortunately limited. CC does not have the flexibility to offer refunds to participants outside of our refund period because there are immediate expenses we incur associated with the initial course reservation.<\/p>\n While there are specific due dates for (1) discussions, (2) assignments and (3) the final project, our 10-week online courses are asynchronous. We offer optional, synchronous webinars for participants, hosted at different times to accommodate as many time zones as possible. All webinar recordings are shared afterward, and you would be welcome to submit any questions in advance of a webinar you could not join.<\/p>\n All courses provide an overview of the global copyright system, and offer in depth tutorials on CC licenses, how to apply them, and how to re-use other CC licensed works. Beyond these fundamentals, there are select differences between the courses, which occur mostly in Unit 5.<\/p>\n The CC Certificate for Educators Unit 5 focuses more on open pedagogy, where the CC Certificate for Academic Librarians focuses slightly more on open access. The CC Certificate for Open Culture focuses on opening access to cultural heritage, including considerations around open licensing digitization projects, Rights Statements, Traditional Knowledge Labels, working with the public domain, and more.<\/p>\n Also, the audiences taking each of the courses vary considerably. The Academic Librarians courses tend to draw a group of academic librarians from higher education institutions, where the Educators courses draws a wider audience (higher education, primary education, administrators, NGO representatives, lawyers, instructional designers, etc). The predominant audience for the Open Culture courses are professionals from galleries, libraries, archives and museums.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve made all reading content openly licensed and available for anyone to use, so you are welcome to explore any of the course readings in advance here: https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc-certificate-program\/certificate-resources\/<\/a>. CC Certificate quizzes are CC BY licensed in the Canvas learning platform\u2019s Canvas Commons<\/a> system.<\/p>\n Creative Commons currently has Certificates for Educators, Academic Librarians, and Open Culture (GLAM). We aim to meet the growing demand for open licensing certification across different fields. Do you have a suggestion for a new CC Certificate course? Contact us at certificates@creativecommons.org.<\/p>\n Creative Commons offers a digital badge that recognizes specialization in open licensing and the Commons, and the ability to help others understand and implement open licenses. You\u2019ll also be invited to join our Certificate Alumni Community, where you can get further involved in the work that Creative Commons does around copyright and open licensing, explore further opportunities for refresher trainings, and connect and collaborate with colleagues doing similar work.<\/p>\n The CC Certificate is highly rigorous and time-intensive. Only participants who earn a 90% or higher on the assessments will be CC Certified. If you receive less than 90% on any assessment, you will have an opportunity to re-submit for a higher grade. We want all learners to become experts and get CC Certified.<\/p>\n No. The Certificate only signifies that you have expertise in open licensing. You will not be authorized to represent or speak on behalf of Creative Commons.<\/p>\n A component of this course will be to create copyrightable digital works (i.e. \u201cAssignments\u201d). If you are unsure who owns the copyright for works you will produce in this course (you or your organization, or a combination of), we advise inquiring about copyright ownership with your organization, if applicable. Here are two examples of open licensing statements your organization might approve.<\/p>\n \u201c[Title of work] is licensed by [Employer X], under [CC license Y].\u201d<\/p>\n Or<\/p>\n \u201c[Title of work], by [your name] is licensed [CC license Y] in as far as they are enabled under the terms of their employment at [Name of Job\/ Employer]. \u201c<\/p>\n Upon the successful completion of a CC Certificate, you will receive a digital badge. You can find out more about digital badges at Wikipedia: Digital Badges<\/a> and in particular about open digital badges at Wikipedia: Mozilla Open Badges<\/a>.<\/p>\n Upon the successful completion of a CC Certificate, you will receive an email from Badgr \/ Canvas Badges that will include a link to download your badge, which people tend to share in email signatures, on LinkedIn or other platforms. The email also includes a link to create an account on Badgr \/ Canvas Badges, where you can add additional badges you collect, if desired. It\u2019s not necessary to create an account on Badgr \/ Canvas Badges to view your badge or download it.<\/p>\n The email address that you used to register for the course.<\/p>\n If you still don\u2019t have an email from Badgr within three weeks of the course end date, make sure to check your junk or spam mail folder. If this doesn\u2019t resolve the issue email certificates@creativecommons.org to let us know you didn\u2019t receive a badge. We will recheck our records in Badgr \/ Canvas Badges. If your email on record with us is an institutional \/ organizational email, it may also be necessary for you to check with your IT team to ask if emails from Badgr are being blocked and can be whitelisted.<\/p>\n You might also be interested in checking out Badgr \/ Canvas Badges\u2019 support page<\/a>, which includes helpful guides and FAQs.<\/p>\n If your question isn\u2019t addressed at that page, also by all means get in touch with us at any time at certificates@creativecommons.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you have any technical difficulties with our registration page, please contact certificates@creativecommons.org.<\/p>\n Likely not; CC\u2019s instance of Canvas is likely different from what your organization uses so you will need to create another account.<\/p>\n If you have successfully logged in once before, you will need to contact Canvas Support<\/a> or Slack<\/a> for tech support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" General What is the CC Certificate? 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Can I make a bulk purchase?<\/h3>\n
Do you offer discounts?<\/h3>\n
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Do you offer bootcamps or other virtual & in-person trainings?<\/h3>\n
Can you explain more about the Certificate course prices?<\/h3>\n
Can I get a refund?<\/h3>\n
Can I defer my registration to a future course?<\/h3>\n
I registered for the wrong course, how do I correct it?<\/h3>\n
I registered but I haven\u2019t received any information.<\/h3>\n
Course Commitment & Content<\/h2>\n
How many hours of work does the Certificate course require?<\/h3>\n
This course is a lot more work than I expected and I\u2019m no longer able to complete the coursework! Or: my circumstances have changed and I\u2019m no longer able to complete coursework! What are my options?<\/h3>\n
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Are online courses asynchronous?<\/h3>\n
What are the differences between the courses?<\/h3>\n
What other CC Certificate tracks will you offer?<\/h3>\n
What do I get with the Certificate?<\/h3>\n
Does everyone participating in the course get a certificate?<\/h3>\n
Can I represent Creative Commons once I am CC Certified?<\/h3>\n
What if I have \u201cwork for hire\u201d status? How does that affect my ability to CC license work created for the course?<\/h3>\n
Digital Badges<\/h2>\n
What\u2019s a digital badge?<\/h3>\n
How do I access my badge?<\/h3>\n
What email address will the link to my badge be sent to?<\/h3>\n
What if I don\u2019t receive an email from Badgr \/ Canvas Badges?<\/h3>\n
Other questions about digital badges?<\/h3>\n
Technical Support<\/h2>\n
I can\u2019t register, who can I contact for technical support?<\/h3>\n
I use Canvas at my own institution, will my username & password work with the Certificate course?<\/h3>\n
I\u2019m having an issue logging into Canvas or Slack. Help!<\/h3>\n