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information environment, expertise in open licensing has become a crucial asset for the modern librarian.

Creative Commons powers the open education movement with tools that help create better, more flexible, and more sustainable open educational resources (OER), practices, and policies. Creative Commons licenses are the most popular open licenses in open education and Open Access (OA) projects around the world; CC puts the “open” in OER and OA. This chapter will introduce you to the specifics of using CC licenses and CC-licensed content for educational and research purposes.

This chapter has seven sections: Before you start this chapter, you should consider joining the Creative Commons Open Education Platform at https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/05/invitation-join-cc-open-education-platform. Your input can help us identify, plan, and coordinate multinational open education content, practices, and - 91 -
 * 1) Open Access to Scholarship
 * 2) Open Pedagogy and Practices
 * OER, Open Textbooks, Open Courses
 * 1) Finding, Evaluating, and Adapting Resources
 * 2) Creating and Sharing OER
 * 3) Opening Up Your Institution
 * 4) Additional Resources