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Failure of Creative Commons Licenses

Tony Karrer

I was contacted by someone out of the Creative Commons organization, but in going back and forth with them, we realized that I was looking for legal interpretations which they clearly can’t do. Users may not directly sell or profit from OCW materials or from works derived from OCW materials. Commercialization is prohibited.

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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

What Harold is raising is that there are going to be lots of free learning that is going to compete with our the more costly paid learning that learning organizations will continue to produce. It also comes from all the subject matter experts both inside and outside your organization that are continually producing content.

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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 Don’t put stuff in that new work that is specific to your organization that you don’t want shared. There were a few exceptions such as Stanford Engineering Everywhere with a CC-BY license. That creates a new ShareAlike work.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

One of the common reasons I hear from knowledge workers inside large organizations for not following the suggestions I provide is that the organization itself puts up barriers to working this way. How will organizations actually execute on this? That’s contrary to what the organization really needs.

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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.” Courses are assigned to learners, typically by the organization they work in.