Welcome to My Blog on Open content licensing for educators (mOOC)

Hi all, 

I am Jeewanthi Hettiarachchi from Sri Lanka. I am a Instructor for Computer Studies from Information Technology Center of the University of the Visual & Performing Arts , Sri Lanka. I personally feel that I am a very positive,  responsible and dedicated individual with very high academic and career expectations. Teaching is my passion and my research focuses on using Information Technology in Education. I am interested in analysing the advantages of using Internet, Web applications, Social media in Learning, Teaching and beyond. 

I joined the #OCL4Ed (Open content licensing for educators - micro Open Online Course (mOOC)) course in order to learn more about CC licensing and running mOOCs. This course will help me to (from the course aims):

• Reflect on the practice of sharing knowledge in education and the permissions educators consider fair and reasonable;
• Define what constitutes an open education resource (OER);
• Explain how international copyright functions in a digital world;
• Distinguish the types of Creative Commons licenses and explain how they support open education approaches;
• Acquire the prerequisite knowledge required by educators to legally remix open education materials and help institutions to take informed decisions about open content licenses;
• Use social media technologies to support your learning;
• Connect with educators around the world to share thoughts and experiences in relation to copyright, OER and Creative Commons.

And I would like to share all my knowledge, works and experiences I am getting from this course. Check my tweets on @jeewanthihe regarding the course. 

I hope I am able to meet the expectations of the course.