After almost 15 years of dedicated service, Dr. Cable Green, our Director of Open Education, will be moving on from Creative Commons.

Central Michigan University librarians and staff work with faculty to make course materials more affordable.

Signals © 2021 by Hugo Parasol is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 In June we kicked off a public feedback period on our proposal for CC signals. CC signals is a preference signals framework designed to...

Textbooks are heavy in your backpack and on your wallet. The good news? WT has partnered with two big companies for free digital access.

UNESCO © 2025 by Brigitte Vézina is licensed under CC BY 4.0 We are proud to announce that we are now established as an official NGO partner to UNESCO (consultative status). UNESCO stands for “United ...

Thank you for registering for the ninth Open Education Café co-organised by SPARC Europe, the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL), and the Network of Open Organizations on 17 Septemb...

Montana State University students may be paying far less for textbooks than their peers at other universities due to multifold efforts to lower costs.

By Curt Newton For years, open education has been delivering benefits for learners around the world, saving enormous sums on textbooks and creating more adaptive and culturally relevant learning throu...

When Cal State San Marcos students were asked how they'd spend the money saved by not having to buy textbooks, many said rent, food and even life-saving medication. Their responses showed that textboo...

When you select a license using the Creative Commons license engine, we return a block of HTML you can place on your web page to mark that you’ve licensed your content. Included in that block of HTML…

At Rollins College, Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resources (OER) are making education affordable and accessible.  By removing costly paywalls for research and replacing…

Reciprocal Roof (Shed) by Ziggy Liloia is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 A lot has changed in the past few years, and it is high time for Creative Commons (CC) to be louder about our values. Underpinning...

To celebrate Open Education Week, read how OSU students have saved over $20 million thanks to faculty who use free textbooks and other OER.

We are pleased to present Creative Commons’ 2024 Annual Report.  In 2024, we expanded our Open Infrastructure Circle, resourcing our CC license and training work. We advocated for open licensing in th...

Faculty at Weber State University are expanding efforts to provide free textbooks to students, with an ultimate goal to make college more accessible and affordable.

Kaleidoscope 2 by Sheila Sund is licensed under CC BY 2.0. For over 20 years, Creative Commons (CC) has provided self-serve solutions to address the limitations of copyright in a digital world. CC is ...

Chippewa Valley Technical College has released two new open educational resources developed as part of the Wisconsin Technical College System's open press, WisTech Open.

Members of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) attended a tailored webinar and learned how to better share climate data by applying best practices for open licenses and metadata.

The Open Education program at Creative Commons works to support CC’s mission through education, advocacy, and outreach on using open licenses and open licensing policies to maximize the benefits of op...

We invite you to join us for an enlightening webinar: "Creative Commons Licenses: Unlocking Access to Enhance the Reach of Your Research" on December 11, 2024…