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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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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. For instance, we developed the Work Literacy site in about a week and at no cost. OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning. It was added to and modified by the participants.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

I was really glad to see it grow to become one of the Top eLearning Sites. And the system itself is growing with sites like Social Media Informer. Top eLearning Sites? And it’s going to become much better in the new year as it moves over to the next generation platform.

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

Mark Oehlert

The latest group of tabs to catch my eye include the following: Training Sites. Web-based tools. The first five sites commoditize training on a range of technical topics. Do our publications and sites echo with design discussions? . Lynda.com : . CodeAcademy : . Udacity : . Treehouse : . Stand-alone marketplace.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

For most workplace eLearning the implication of this is that we are going to be getting asked a lot more about whether content will be accessible and work on other devices, e.g., mobile web access, home access, etc. Now, for the pessimists out there – Do you remember back to the really early days of the web? It was terrible!