Seven New Courses Coming from the School of Open: Sign Up Today

The School of Open is offer­ing its sec­ond round of free, facil­i­tat­ed, online cours­es. Through August 4, you can sign up for 7 cours­es on open sci­ence, col­lab­o­ra­tive work­shop design, open edu­ca­tion­al resources, copy­right for edu­ca­tors, Wikipedia, CC licens­es, and more. Cours­es will start after the first week of August and run for 3 to 7 weeks, depend­ing on the course top­ic and orga­niz­er. All cours­es will offer badges for recog­ni­tion of skills and/or course com­ple­tion as part of P2PU’s badges pilot. Here’s a list of the upcom­ing cours­es, all of which have been added to our com­pre­hen­sive list of MOOCs.

• Open Sci­ence: An Intro­duc­tion
• Why Open?
• Copy­right 4 Edu­ca­tors (AUS)
• Copy­right 4 Edu­ca­tors (US)
• Cre­ative Com­mons for K‑12 Edu­ca­tors
• Design­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tive Work­shops
• Writ­ing Wikipedia Arti­cles: The Basics and Beyond

If you are too busy to take a course this time around, you can sign up to be noti­fied for the next round of facil­i­tat­ed cours­es, or take a stand-alone course at your own pace, at any time. All cours­es are free and open to take and re-use under the Cre­ative Com­mons Attri­bu­tion-Share­Alike license.