Open educational resources

In November 2011, UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) published the document 'Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education'. The document lays out policies for promoting OERs in higher education.

WikiEducator is an evolving community intended to promote collaboration in: the planning of education projects linked to the development of free content; the development of free content on WikiEducator for e-learning; and the creation of open educational resources (OERs) on how to create other OERs.

This operating manual guides creators step by step through the world of Creative Commons licences, the most well-known and popular licences for the free distribution of intellectual products. The author offers detailed technical information about the tools offered by Creative Commons.

This essay about the most controversial aspects of peer-to-peer networks and intellectual property analyses the role of the media, the recording industry, bestsellers and blockbusters in promoting a strategy based on fear and lies in order to stave off technological progress that benefits millions of Internet users and society in general. The essay debunks the most frequently advanced reasons for labelling those who share and disseminate culture for free criminals and pirates, offering a data-based argument in favour of the legality and benefits of this new cybernetic revolution.

This guide aims to offer clear and simple guidelines for authors and publishers, providing proposals for the exact way in which the copyright for published works should be expressed.

This tutorial is aimed at researchers who publish in journals and seeks to raise their awareness of the importance of properly managing the copyrights to their work. Controlling the copyrights will facilitate open-access publication and dissemination through a variety of channels, thereby increasing the visibility and impact of the results of their research.

This documentary aims to answer questions such as: what is intellectual property, what is a copyright and to what extent can someone have an original idea? For some years now, especially since the explosive emergence of the information society, people have constantly questioned the system. To what extent is copying a crime? Aren't we all constantly copying each other when we think?