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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 If I want to create eLearning for use by my employees, can I use CC-BY-NC content as part of it? Create new, public works based on the original work. Create new, public works based on the original work.

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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

Web media can be created quickly and, if designed in an open manner, can change according to the needs of learners and facilitators. And sure if we spend time and money to produce courseware, it will be better than the stuff created by a subject matter expert with a rapid elearning tool. OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning.

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Daily Bookmarks 06/19/2008

Experiencing eLearning

ZaidLearn: University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE! to Create an Easy, Always Updated Online Portfolio. Create a specific tag for your portfolio and have an easy-to-update page for your content. Huge directory of links to free educational resources–open courseware, open educational resources, and general resources.

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Open Content in Workplace Learning?

The Learning Circuits

One of my Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010 was around Open Content for Workplace Learning: I’m not sure why this already hasn’t had a bigger impact, but workplace learning is going to start to catch up on the value of OCW and OER. Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium.

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

Mark Oehlert

The last group of sites are all tools that are designed to allow users to easily create mobile apps, including one which lets you do that on a mobile device itself. Lynda.com : . CodeAcademy : . Udacity : . Treehouse : . Stand-alone marketplace. Open Sesame : . Web-based tools. Bloomfire : . MITx : Academic Earth : . Mobile App production.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

means to the organization, they created a solution that was as much a research project as it was a learning solution. In 2010, CLOs should foster a growth of skills in a wide spectrum of different kinds of learning solutions even though that will create inevitable turmoil. I know this doesn’t make sense. A lot like Jack.