Creative Commons and the NETS for Students Standards
Mar 6th, 2008 by John Pederson
I’m starting a movement.
Email persmissions@iste.org with a simple request.
Simple suggestion.
Take the NETS for Students (6 concepts and accompanying bullet points) and license them under one of the Creative Commons licenses. More info at http://www.creativecommons.org.
Thanks.
Update: Email from ISTE.
From: permissions@smtp.iste.orgSubject: Request for permission received
Dear requestor,
Thank you for contacting ISTE regarding permission. Please allow 10 - 15 business days for processing of this request. Permissions requests are answered in the order that they are received.
If you have a special case, please inform us of your timeline (in the subject line of your email). We will do our best to meet your needs.
If you are a non-member seeking educational course pack permission, please contact Copyright Clearance Center for permission:
CCC, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, fax: 978.750.4744, www.copyright.com
To access ISTE’s Permission Request Form, please visit:
www.iste.org/permissions
For more information about ISTE Permissions, visit:
http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/Permission_and_Reprints/Permissions_and_Reprints.htm
Thank you for your interest in ISTE-published materials.
Permissions EditorInternational Society of Technology in Education175 W. Broadway, Suite 300Eugene, OR 97401Fx. 541.302.3780permissions@iste.orgwww.iste.org
I joined the movement. Great idea and necessary.
1 request sent.
Good luck, John!
I have suggested to both ISTE and to AASL that they put their standards on a wiki for member editing as well. Make them a “living” document. All I got were funny looks. (Actually TRUST our members???)
The standards (or at least the support materials that accompany them) are revenue generators for organizations like this. Until that concept changes, it will be bidness as usual.
All the best,
Doug
Dear Mr. Pederson,
I am the director of publishing at ISTE. I wanted to thank you for your suggestion that ISTE license its National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS*S) with Creative Commons. We have actually seriously considered doing just that, but in the end we decided against it. I’d like to explain why.
ISTE is more than happy to grant permission, without charge, to anyone who would like to use the NETS*S for nonprofit, educational purposes. We ask that people request permission directly from ISTE because it’s absolutely vital that we are able to track NETS*S usage. Knowing who is using the NETS*S, and where, when, why, and how, allows us to make sure our various audiences know about the standards and is also critical information when it comes time to update the standards.
So, for nonprofit, educational purposes, we don’t require monetary payment to use the NETS*S. The “price” we ask is simply information on usage. By licensing with Creative Commons, we would lose the ability to gather that information.
Again, thanks for your interest in and support of the NETS*S. It’s gratifying to us to hear that people want the standards made as widely available as possible.
Best regards,
Courtney Burkholder
Director of Publishing
ISTE
p.s. Regarding the “auto-response” to your email: Our rights and permissions coordinator position is currently open. Once it is filled, the average response time to permissions inquiries will be greatly reduced.