Introduction

We live in an incredible time of knowledge sharing, access to research, and education opportunities. Now, more than ever, creators are sharing their materials with the public; institutions are establishing policies that support broad access to knowledge resources; students are creating, curating, and contributing to learning materials; and there are over 1.6 billion Creative Commons licensed works online.

This Creative Commons course materials eBook is designed to help navigate this era’s new information landscape, to take advantage of opportunities and tools available. It is hoped that it will help you use the CC licences as tools to strengthen the collective/global capacity for openness, sharing and creativity.