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Failure of Creative Commons Licenses

Tony Karrer

The one good thing that came out of it was that at least MIT recognized this failure and has additional information: MIT Interpretation of "Non-commercial" ": Non-commercial use means that users may not sell, profit from, or commercialize OCW materials or works derived from them. Commercialization is prohibited.

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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

In the Business of Learning , I compared publishing and learning. OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning. Harold Jarche had a great post If learning was free that raises questions that need to be continually asked by learning and development around the issues of Free. Embrace, facilitate, support, connect, leverage free learning.

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Survey on Extreme or Informal Learning

Jay Cross

One strand of this research is on the use of open educational resources, OCW, and popular learning portals like MIT OpenCourseWare and the MIT OpenCourseWare Highlights for High School. I’m finishing up my next book, Informal Learning in Business. The 45-question survey is here. I suggest you take it. Who are you connected to?

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Reading the tea Leaves in my tabs: Our ecosystem is Commodified

Mark Oehlert

Where does that leave you vendors with traditional (and by that I mean old) business models? Lynda.com : . CodeAcademy : . Udacity : . Treehouse : . Stand-alone marketplace. Open Sesame : . Web-based tools. Bloomfire : . MITx : Academic Earth : . Mobile App production. Where does that leave you big training content company?

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

However, for people who are in the business of learning solutions , there are going to be growing opportunities to differentiate with content and solutions accessible from more devices. Freemium and Hybrid Business Models Last year, I spent a fair bit of time looking at the business of learning.