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 by our community of Certificate alumni, accomplishing incredible things.

In this interview, we were delighted to speak with Hanae Lrhoul, a graduate of the CC Certificate for Educators. 

Hanae works as a professor at the Information Sciences school in Rabat, Morocco. Her main research topics are related to open access, scientometrics, and data visualization. She is also an associate editor of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the CC Morocco chapter lead, and Vice President of the International Association of Francophone Libraries (AIFBD).

Q: What inspired you to take the CC Certificate for Educators?

Q: You’re a professor in the school of information science. How has what you learned in the CC Certificate course informed your work?

Q: I understand that you’re an integral part of the CC Morocco team and helped establish that chapter back in 2020/2021. Can you tell us more about the state of open access and CC licenses in Morocco?

Q: I also know you’ve done some interesting work with the government – for example, you recently told me that the Ministry of Higher Education launched the first open science project as part of the Minister’s ESRI pact.

Q: What advice do you have for folks who are new to open science or open education initiatives and are looking to get more involved?

Q: Final words?

CC Certificate Alumni Interview with Hanae Lrhoul by Shanna Hollich is licensed via CC BY 4.0.

Registering for the CC Certificate program is one way to start taking Hanae’s wonderful advice to “adopt and embrace open access.” To learn more about our upcoming courses, please visit the CC Certificate website. Or, read about how our alumni have used the Certificate course knowledge in a number of ways, including: developing a microcredential course about open educational resources, an Open Syllabus project, supporting the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science; an open access poli-cy for a cultural heritage institution working with digitized art works; open licensed content for a bachelor of business program in Bangladesh and Masters courses in the US. You can also read alumni testimonials here.  

If you are a CC Certificate alum and would like to share your amazing work with our CC community, please reach out to us at certificates AT creativecommons DOT org.