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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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Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning?

Tony Karrer

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. First, likely the course is being provided only behind your firewall.

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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

Learning as a publisher of courses, content, etc. Please help - I'm looking right now for examples of organizations using open course content (e.g., OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning. is facing the same thing. There's a lot of other content out there. Embrace, facilitate, support, connect, leverage free learning.

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Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required.

Take an e-Learning Break

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. The focus of the course is on the processes that control the climate of the planet. The course includes interactive simulations and videos.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

Over the past few years, I spend part of December going back through my blog to recap a bit of what some of the key things I’ve learned over the course of the year. A lot of it is thinking through where my thinking has changed over the course of the year. And every year I use this as a Big Question – see: Learning 2010.

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Daily Bookmarks 06/19/2008

Experiencing eLearning

ZaidLearn: University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE! First, it helps to look at the typical process of technology adoption (keeping in mind, of course, that schools are not typical of anything.) Huge directory of links to free educational resources–open courseware, open educational resources, and general resources.

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

Mark Oehlert

Open Sesame provides a commodity marketplace for training courses. . I can take a Game Theory course from Yale (actually took it - really good), download the course materials and join a live study group on Visualizing Cultures from MIT (note to self: do this), and even get a certificate for completing Circuits and Electronics from MITx. .

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