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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 Can you put one of those images inside your internal corporate training as long as you provide attribution? There were a few exceptions such as Stanford Engineering Everywhere with a CC-BY license.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

iPad (and iPhone) are Much More Useful Than I Expected I didn’t actually think that I would care about the iPad except as a tool for training and performance support in environments like retail and restaurants where it’s always been an issue having access to machines. Marketplace LMS solutions don’t quite fit.

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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. The first five sites commoditize training on a range of technical topics. Open Sesame provides a commodity marketplace for training courses. . Where does that leave you big training content company? Lynda.com : . CodeAcademy : . Udacity : .

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

It was the time when we delivered multimedia training on CD-ROMs (sometimes called CBTs)? For a lot of training offerings they will look to keep costs very low – build it fast and inexpensively. Now, for the pessimists out there – Do you remember back to the really early days of the web? How will organizations actually execute on this?

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11 Differences between a MOOC and an Online Course

ID Reflections

I love this definition of MOOCs by Ignatia Inge deWaard in her e-book, MOOC Yourself: “A MOOC is a non-defined pedagogical format to organize learning /teaching/training on a specific topic in an informal, online, and collaborative way.”