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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

For instance, we developed the Work Literacy site in about a week and at no cost. OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning. Web media can be created quickly and, if designed in an open manner, can change according to the needs of learners and facilitators. It was added to and modified by the participants. Total cost: zero.

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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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Daily Bookmarks 06/19/2008

Experiencing eLearning

ZaidLearn: University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE! You could build on this idea by posting the RSS feed from your custom tag to another site where you could control the look and feel. Huge directory of links to free educational resources–open courseware, open educational resources, and general resources. Mostly higher ed.

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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. The last group of sites are all tools that are designed to allow users to easily create mobile apps, including one which lets you do that on a mobile device itself. Udacity :

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

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. As is the fact that we need to design for the User Interface Beyond the Web Site. Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium.