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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. is facing the same thing.

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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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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

And a big part of the problem is just how many there are and how fast they change. I was also struggling for clients who needed very simple learning tracking but with some customizations. Marketplace LMS solutions don’t quite fit. Neither do more complex solutions.

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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

However, MOOCs can be effective in fostering some of the critical 21 st Century skills like collaboration, self-driven learning, pattern sensing and problem solving. Related articles MOOCs: taxonomy of 8 types of MOOC A faculty perspective on OCW and MOOCs Reports from MOOC Research Hub'