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Session Description

Join us for a one-hour webinar to learn how you can grow your expertise in copyright law through Creative Commons.  

Creative Commons (CC) is an international non-profit organization that empowers people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture needed to address the world’s most pressing challenges. Its CC Certificate program offers in-depth courses about CC licenses, open practices, and the ethos of the commons.

Content creators, writers, educators, librarians, staff, and graduate students in B.C. and Yukon post-secondaries are eligible for a 15% discount towards registration for CC Certificate training for training sessions offered in 2025 (January and June). 

Save the date for this webinar to learn more, ask questions about this opportunity, and hear how colleagues who have completed this training are applying their knowledge. 

Recording and Resources

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Panelists

Jennryn Wetzler (she/her) is the director of learning and training at Creative Commons and oversees its training programs, including the Creative Commons Certificate program, which has served over 68 countries. Jennryn manages CC’s open education platform: a community group of open education advocates around the world. She also manages CC’s open journalism efforts, and consulting work. Jennryn enjoys focusing on projects that increase equitable access to information, believing that journalism and education are pillars of any democracy, and essential human rights.

Emily Schudel (she/her) is an instructional designer in eLearning and open education, as well as the chair of the centre for excellence in teaching and learning at Camosun College.  She has worked as an instructional designer for over 30 years, worked with faculty to enhance their courses with technology, taught blended and online courses, and in 2018 began her journey into open education, becoming Creative Commons certified, and supported faculty who are engaging in open education work using WordPress, Pressbooks, H5P and other open platforms.

Kaitlyn Zheng (she/her) is the coordinator of project support and open publication at BCcampus. She is working in open publishing and she supports various OER development projects in the B.C. post-secondary sector. Kaitlyn has recently completed the Creative Commons Certificate for Educators in June 2024.