Photo of Empty Classroom by Diana. Public Domain. 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 open education… Read More »CC Open Education: 2024 Year in Review
Launched in 2018, the Creative Commons Certificate program has trained and graduated nearly 1800 people from 66 countries. The Certificate program offers in-depth courses about CC licenses, open practices, and the ethos of the Commons. Our staff is constantly inspired… Read More »CC Certificate Alumni Making a Global Impact
Thanks to the CC Open Education Platform community’s time proposing projects and voting on the proposals, we now have five winning ideas to advance open education globally. CC will fund five projects in 2024, spanning Brazil, Ghana, Nepal, and Nigeria.… Read More »The CC Open Education Platform Funds Five New Community Projects
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) commissioned the OER Foundation (OERF) to deploy its open digital infrastructure to host a growing inventory of OER-enabled online courses for the Pacific Partnership for Open, Distance and Flexible Learning, thereby providing an innovative and… Read More »OER Foundation’s open digital infrastructure powers the Pacific Partnership’s open online courses
During 2022, the OER Foundation supported capacity development of staff at the Samoan Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture (MESC) to establish and maintain their own instance of the OER Foundation’s award winning Free and Open Source (FOSS) Digital Learning… Read More »Samoan Ministry of Education implements the OER Foundation’s FOSS Digital Learning Ecosystem
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Open Educational Resources (OER) are likely approaching an existential crisis because rapid advances in generative Large Language Models under the banner of ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) could erode their competitive advantage as digital public goods when compared to commercial content. The… Read More »South Pacific scenarios for OER’s existential AI crisis
Monday, November 10, 2025 File photo of a man's opera hat, traditionally seen as a magician's symbol.Image: Rijksmuseum. The last week of October was National Magic Week in the U.S. Wikinews recently caught up with Bruce Chadwick, of Fort… Read More »Wikinews interviews magician and illusion builder Bruce Chadwick for National Magic Week
Sunday, November 9, 2025 The annual cultural and educational event, “Night of the Arts,” was held on the eve of Russia’s National Unity Day, continuing a series of cultural festivals such as “Night at the Museum,” “Night at the… Read More »Russian "Art Night" in Crimea: Wikinews interviews Traveler Viktor Pinchuk
Friday, November 7, 2025 Queens assemblymember and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani Image: Wikimedia Commons/Karamccurdy. New York City residents voted for Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani over disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo in the Mayoral race. For weeks, Mamdani led the… Read More »Mamdani wins New York City mayoral election
On October 25, 2025, “Wikipedia Town in Iwamura” was held in Ena City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Overview In Japan, “Wikipedia Town” is a Wikipedia editing workshop organized by libraries, local governments, citizen groups, etc. The aim is to enrich articles… Read More »“Wikipedia Town in Iwamura”
Empowering Wikimedians from Kannada & Tulu Languages: Report from the Kannada Language Workshop 2024–25 Meta page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kannada_Language_Workshop_2024-25 The Kannada Language Workshop was an expansive initiative organized from November 2024 to August 2025. Its primary goal to build editing capacity among both… Read More »Kannada Language Workshop 2024–25
The Wiki N’zuñdeuh program left the station in October 2024 to train students and teachers returned to it on June 8, 2025 in Cameroon. Beyond skills and cultural documentation in its pilot phase, the project has embarked on a gender approach in Cameroon… Read More »Wiki N’zuñdeuh, a collaborative action between WAFTAI, its partners, and Wikimedia
Explore This Section Science Courses & Curriculums for… From City Lights to Moonlight:… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science 4 min read From City Lights to Moonlight: NASA Training Shows… Read More »From City Lights to Moonlight: NASA Training Shows How Urban Parks Can Connect Communities with Space Science
Explore This Section Science For Colleges & Universities NASA Helps Connect Astronomers… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science 3 min read NASA Helps Connect Astronomers and Community Colleges Across the… Read More »NASA Helps Connect Astronomers and Community Colleges Across the Nation
Explore This Section Science Science Activation Helio Highlights: October… Home Framework for Heliophysics Education About Helio Big Idea 1.1 Helio Big Idea 1.2 Helio Big Idea 1.3 Helio Big Idea 2.1 Helio Big Idea 2.2 Helio Big Idea 2.3 Helio… Read More »Helio Highlights: October 2025
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the nebula LMC N44C. www.nasa.gov · Public Domain
This stunning Earth image taken from the International Space Station looks at a large lake in eastern Kazakhstan with golden sunglint: Lake Balkhash. It is one of the largest lakes in Asia and is the 15th largest lake in the… Read More »Golden Lake
Today’s post is by Rachael Salyer, Subject Matter Expert for Modern Military Records at the National Archives in College Park, MD. Photograph of WAC Officers Inspecting the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion – NAID 531249 In early 1945, the 6888th… Read More »The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion and the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) in World War II
Today’s blog was written by Kaitlin Rogers, Archives Technician at the National Archives at College Park “Where Everybody is Somebody” [Photograph of Long-Jones Hall, originally called Long Hall on Grambling State University’s campus. Louisiana SP Grambling State University Historic District,… Read More »Happy Founder’s Day Grambling State University