CUNY Academic Commons

Hi All,

I think there might be 3 scenarios to work out here:

1.
If User Selects OER Tag in Setting General

Then the following notice can appear below the text (and below the clarifying text that it already there):

"We noticed that you have tagged your site as an OER but no Creative Commons license is present on the site. In order to be considered an "OER" you must select a default creative Commons license for the entire site in Settings>Writing [link] or assign a CC license to pages or posts that are OER. To learn more about open educational resources (OER) open licensing visit our documentation [link TBD]."

2.
A user selects a site wide CC license in Settings>Writing but is not tagged as OER. After they select license and save an alert message at the top reading:

"We noticed you have indicated a Creative Commons license for the site, which allows your content to be reused and remixed. To learn more about Creative Commons licenses on the Commons See our CC documentation here. [link TBD]. If you are creating or using OER on the site, please be sure to tag your site as OER in Settings>General [link]

3. (less likely) A user indicates a CC license on a page or post (not sitewide)

"We noticed you indicate a Creative Commons license for this page or post, which allows the content to be reused and remixed. To learn more about Creative Commons licenses on the Commons See our CC documentation here. [link TBD]. If you are creating or using OER on the site, please be sure to tag your site as OER in Settings>General [link].

Thanks, Laurie. I hadn't thought about 3. How this is implemented depends on how we design the interface for CC on individual items. Is this part of the scope for the upcoming release? I remember it being mentioned in passing but I don't see a ticket for it.

Regarding 2 (and 3) - You have phrased it as a positive suggestion: "you're using CC, why not tag as OER"? I guess there's nothing wrong with this, though perhaps we'd want to limit it to sites where the purpose is 'Teaching', since there are plenty of cases where you might want a CC license but you would hesitate to call your content OER. More important, I think, is a warning about incompatibility. In the case of the license picker, this would be "You have selected a non-open license, but your site is currently tagged as OER..."