Welcome!

Introduction

‘CC course overview’ was produced by Visual Thinkery for TIDE project, part of the UK Aid-funded SPHEIR programme (spheir.org.uk), and is licensed CC BY 2.0

Mingalabar! Welcome to Copyright and open licensing in Myanmar. We are delighted to welcome you to this course.

Who is this course aimed at?

This course has been designed especially for librarians, ICT and support staff at universities and colleges in Myanmar. It may also be of interest to educators, students and administrative staff. This course will introduce you to why copyright is important and how freely available materials that give you explicit permission to use in different ways could be useful for your colleagues and students.

There are lots of reasons why you might be interested in participating in this course:

• Are you looking for ways to ensure that colleagues and students have access to relevant and interesting learning and teaching materials?
• Perhaps you’ve been thinking about the changes happening in higher education (such as ‘one campus, two systems’, the move toward blended approaches in response to COVID-19) and how you can better support educators in providing learning resources.
• Are you curious about what the new Myanmar copyright law means for your role and university?
• Do you want to find out how to access or create resources that have no cost but are high quality and do not violate copyright?
• Have you heard of open educational resources (OER), but are not really sure where to start or what they are?
• Are you interested in hearing about, and sharing, experiences on how to use and develop learning and teaching resources?

You do not need to already know about (or even have heard of) Creative Commons, copyright, open licensing or other topics covered in the course before you participate.

How to use the course material

This course is self-paced, which means you can work on it whenever suits you.

The course is structured into six units that comprise three or four sections. Learning outcomes are provided for each unit. Each unit should take around three hours to complete.

Each section of the course has reflection points, so you may want to write down your thoughts and ideas as the course progresses. At the end of every unit there is an end-of-unit quiz to test your understanding of the topics covered.

Here is an overview of the course content:

1. What is copyright?
   • 1.1 Copyright basics
   • 1.2 Myanmar copyright law
   • 1.3 Global aspect of copyright
   • 1.4 Exceptions and limitations to copyright
2. Introducing the public domain and Creative Commons
   • 2.1 The public domain
   • 2.2 The story of Creative Commons
   • 2.3 Creative Commons today
3. Anatomy of a CC licence
   • 3.1 Licence terminology
   • 3.2 Licence scope
   • 3.3 Licence types
   • 3.4 Licence terminology
4. OER and using CC-licensed work
   • 4.1 Open educational resources (OER)
   • 4.2 Why use openly licensed material?
   • 4.3 Finding and evaluating OER
   • 4.4 Attributing OER
5. Creating CC-licensed work
   • 5.1 Choosing and applying a CC licence
   • 5.2 Things to consider after CC licensing
   • 5.3 Remixing CC-licensed work
6. You and your university
   • 6.1 Open access to scholarship
   • 6.2 Opening up your institution
   • 6.3 What next?

You must complete all sections of the course and achieve at least a 60% score on each quiz to be awarded a statement of participation. You may attempt each quiz as many times as you like.

This course has been designed to be used in several ways. You can work through the whole course as described above. Alternatively, you could focus on using particular sections of the course to refresh your understanding or find out more about particular topics you are interested in. You could work on the course alone or with a group of colleagues.

If you are new to online learning you may want to review Get started with online learning before you begin the course.

About the course

This course is a remix of the Creative Commons Certificate for Librarians Programme. It was developed as part of the Transformation by Innovation in Distance Education (TIDE) project’s Master Trainer Programme (MTP). Additional materials related to the MTP are also available.

The course is openly licensed for reuse and you can find details of how to reference the course and a list of material used in the acknowledgements and copyright information sections of the course. You can also find out more about the team behind the course’s development in the acknowledgements.

Please note that although this course is based on the Creative Commons for Librarians Certificate, you are not participating in the official CC Certificate programme. Please also note that information on Myanmar copyright law contained in this course is for information purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Neither does it entitle learners to provide legal advice on any aspect of copyright or open licensing.