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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

Big publishers are having problems as the cost of distribution goes towards zero and as that brings along a ton of competition from the low end. OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning. In the Business of Learning , I compared publishing and learning. Learning as a publisher of courses, content, etc. eLearning Technology.

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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 Doesn’t that run you into the problem described above? There were a few exceptions such as Stanford Engineering Everywhere with a CC-BY license. But, I think this really turns into a question of the implications of CC-BY-NC-SA.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

The nice thing is that the tools from Articulate and Adobe have really matured to the point where you can do a lot quickly and without too many problems. Prediction #9 => Open Content 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.

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11 Differences between a MOOC and an Online Course

ID Reflections

MOOCs on various topics can be set up using blended content – some custom designed and some re-purposed from OERs and other available content from the net as long as one takes care to note the various IPR-related policies. MOOCs do not always require custom-built content to set up unless the need is very specific.