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Failure of Creative Commons Licenses

Tony Karrer

I’ve been trying to find out more about specific answers to Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning. The guidelines below are intended to help users determine whether or not their use of OCW materials would be permitted by MIT under the "non-commercial" restriction. Commercialization is prohibited.

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Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning?

Tony Karrer

I’m exploring whether Open Content can be used by for-profit companies. Most of the OCW content appears to come under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Of course, you can always find a corporate attorney who doesn’t want to do that even, but you probably can’t access common websites from that company either.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

See Failure of Creative Commons Licenses and Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? I’m still struggling a little bit with it, but I know there’s going to be a lot going on around it. for more on this. Flash may Die and HTML 5 is Going to be Big 2010 opened my eyes are Flash and HTML 5. Top eLearning Sites?

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

Mark Oehlert

commodify ; specifically : to render (a good or service) widely available and interchangeable with one provided by another company. Where does that leave you big training content company? The latest group of tabs to catch my eye include the following: Training Sites. Lynda.com : . CodeAcademy : . Udacity : . Treehouse : .

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

When the personal tools in your mobile phone are more empowering than what your company provides or approves for your projects, how can you be saved from devastating market forces? The tools we use in life have leapfrogged over the ones we use at work. Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium.