Heather Ford has a new post listing articles and papers that critique Creative Commons. From the post:
We need to be more critical of these solutions so that we don’t fall prey to believing that Creative Commons – the way it is designed and run – is inevitable (more on that soon).
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content, Open Education, openness
Tony Hirst has a new post about business models for lifelong students and the effects of networks. From the post:
A model I’m trying to pull together at them moment is based more on a situation where a a student spends one or two years of quite intense, formal study getting into the swing of what independent learning might mean, albeit independent learning in the sense of no-one making you work through structured teaching materials, rather than folk learning informally from unstructured materials in an autodidactic way.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness, sustainability
Charles Lowe published a paper back in September on the value of Creative Commons and copyleft. From the abstract:
Creative Commons licenses are important instruments for sharing open educational resources. This article will focus on the debate over two of the most widely used and contentious licenses: Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike. Drawing on lessons from the open source community, rhetorical theory, and my own perspectives as an advocate of copyleft, I offer some insight into the debate over these licenses, with particular emphasis on how Attribution-ShareAlike can help to build a sustainable education commons.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Mike Masnick has a new post discussing the benefits of copyright. From the post:
If you talk to many of today’s copyright system supporters, they will claim the benefit (or even the entire purpose) of copyright, is to provide remuneration to creators. That, of course, ignores the basic history of copyright law, but even if we assume this is true, then copyright does not seem to serve that purpose.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness
Leigh Blackall has a new post about presenting at Parliament House. From the post:
A CC By and open access default requires those who wish to restrict their copyright and access to make it known to their IP Office, resulting in an early intervention and best possible management of IP at the outset.
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
David Wiley has a new post suggesting that open licenses could be viewed as simply an add-on of questionable value to publishing efforts. From the post:
In many cases, people in-field can’t articulate a difference at all, which is disappointing but not depressing. In other cases, more articulate people clearly know the difference and seem to have rejected the necessity of open licenses.
Tom Caswell has a new post discussing his work at Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC). From the post:
The Open Course Library is taking the top 81 highest enrolling college courses in the state and to creating high quality, openly licensed curriculum for each course. There are dozens of people involved: course developers, designers, librarians, and many other experts. All the challenges of course development come into play, plus some additional things that come with creating a course in the open…
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Timothy Vollmer has a new post announcing Creative Commons involvement with Google’s Policy Fellowship. From the post:
The 2011 Google Policy Fellow will receive a substantial grant to work at Creative Commons’ San Francisco office.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, google, grant
“Trashbird1240″ has a new post questioning the benefits of open access. From the post:
After doing a little research and hearing a few opinions, I will not advocate Open Access for right now, the way I advocate free software. I will tell people “Free Software is better for personal and academic liberty, and creates a society with better values.” I can’t say the same things in support of Open Access.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, OATP.new, openness
Matt Jukes has a new post explaining why he is stepping away from open education for awhile. From the post:
Increasingly though it is impossible to follow this community without being subjected to various pretty serious political thinking. I’m sure it is all perfectly well researched and argued and I have alot of time on a personal level for many of the those leading these conversations but the fact is it leaves me cold and a little uncomfortable.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
