Tony Karrer

APRIL 5, 2010

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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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

In the Business of Learning , I compared publishing and learning. 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. They can't afford to go into depth in niche areas because the costs would be too high for the return. Total cost: zero.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

However, for people who are in the business of learning solutions , there are going to be growing opportunities to differentiate with content and solutions accessible from more devices. Essentially telling the CEO – we’ll produce more and better quality – but it’s not going to cost any more. You capture the expert and play it back.

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Mark Oehlert

APRIL 19, 2012

So we can move from education to training to means of production for either free or something that is so low cost as compared to what the cost would've been 5 or 10 years ago that the price appears at least to be trending to the free. . Where does that leave you vendors with traditional (and by that I mean old) business models?

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