Open content licensing for educators/Course guide/About

History of OCL4Ed
The course materials for OCL4Ed were originally developed as a collaborative project by volunteers from the OER Foundation, WikiEducator, the OpenCourseWare Consortium and Creative Commons with funding support from the UNESCO Office for the Pacific States.

To the best of our knowledge, OCL4Ed was the fist comprehensive open course on OERs, copyright and Creative Commons designed for educators where all course materials were published under a Creative Commons Attribution license and developed openly as a collaborative open design project.

You will be joining thousands of educators from more than 100 countries who have benefited from the OCL4Ed course resources. The pilot course was first offered to 332 participants from 60 different countries in March 2011. The OCL4Ed 12.01 course attracted 1067 registered students from 90 countries and currently holds the record for the highest number of registrations for a single cohort (see abridged statistics). The OER Foundation has implemented an iterative design model integrating a number of technology refinements with each offering.

OCL4Ed will now provide additional participation and certification alternatives. As an open course, OCL4Ed has now been incorporated into the Open Education Practice elective of the Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education as a micro course. OCL4Ed now offers optional assessment services leading to official course credit for learners interested in formal academic credit. Participants will also be able to earn digital badges and/or Certificates of Participation. We look forward to a growing number of institutions who will incorporate OCL4Ed into their formal courses to join our parallel learning university of free OERu learners.