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Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning?

Tony Karrer

As part of the Big Question this month Open Content in Workplace Learning? , I’m exploring whether Open Content can be used by for-profit companies. And, since Open Content comes in under the Creative Commons license structure. Actually, I’m curious if Open Content ever is not Creative Commons? I’ve just never seen it.

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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

Learning as a publisher of courses, content, etc. There's a lot of other content out there. How differentiated is the content that we produce from all of the Free Learning that's otherwise available? Is our content really that much better? The typical response of large publishers is that their content is better.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

It provided high value for me and hopefully value for people reading it. Aggregation and Social Filtering Provide High Value eLearning Learning has somewhat become my singular source of great eLearning content. I use it to filter and find all the best content on a daily, weekly, monthly basis.

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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. Open Sesame provides a commodity marketplace for training courses. . Where does that leave you big training content company? The content is here people. Lynda.com : . CodeAcademy : .

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

One of the common reasons I hear from knowledge workers inside large organizations for not following the suggestions I provide is that the organization itself puts up barriers to working this way. There have been a couple of products in the market that provide this kind of add-on for self-paced eLearning. Of course, I do.