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Using CC0 for Public Domain Software

Posted on April 19, 2011 by | 1 Comment

Mike Linksvayer has a new post on why it isn’t a good idea to using the CC0 license for public domain software. From the post:

We hadn’t set out with CC0 to improve on public domain dedications for software. However, since the release of CC0, we’ve been approached a number of times about using CC0 to dedicate software to the public domain. While we were happy to hear of this unanticipated demand, we wanted to tread very carefully so as to not create any unintended consequences for the free software ecosystem.

Note: Mike Linksvayer clarifies that it is actually acceptable to use CC0 for public domain software.

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More Yale OCW

Posted on April 19, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Dan Coleman has a new post noting that Yale has released 10 more open courses.

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Wylio

Posted on April 13, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Jonathan Bailey has a new post on Wylio, a tool to for formatting and giving attribution for CC-licensed photos on Flickr. From the post:

While there are thousands upon thousands of images available for easy reuse under Creative Commons Licenses in Flickr, properly attributing those images is time-consuming and can be very confusing.

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Praising Academic Wikipedians

Posted on April 9, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The Guardian has posted an editorial praising “academic” wikipedians. From the post:

…try to access contemporary scholarship with the actual web and you get tangled up.

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OER 2011 Cloudworks

Posted on April 7, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The cloudworks page continues to aggregate tweets and other related bits of conversation from a recent meeting of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation regarding OER.

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Web 2.0, Standards and Openness

Posted on April 7, 2011 by | Leave a comment

R. John Robertson has a new post on web 2.0, standards and openness. From the post:

In part driven by community-based standards development, there is a trend in the development of standards and specifications to work in ways that are more lightweight and to develop standards more efficiently. This may simplify the development of educational standards but educational specific standards increasingly need to demonstrate the value that they add over standards that are more generic.

Note: This post is part of a series on education-specific technical standards. These posts appear to provide an excellent overview of the topic.

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OERbit

Posted on March 29, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Pieter Klymeer has a new post announcing OERbit, a platform for publishing OER. From the post:

Open.Michigan upgraded its website to a Drupal-based system. After some bug-fixing, optimizing, and generalizing, we are now releasing the code to the public under an open-source license.

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Wiki Turns 16

Posted on March 29, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Alex Williams has a new post noting that wiki software turns 16 today. From the post:

In the 1990s, there was a vision of the read/write Web. But most sites were static with little or no interactivity.

The wiki helped transform the Web into an experience that is as much about writing to a page as it is about reading it.

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Inside Google Settlement Ruling

Posted on March 25, 2011 by | Leave a comment

James Grimmelman has a new post about the recent ruling against the Google Book Settlement. From the post:

The next judicial step will be a status conference on April 25 at 4:30 PM. That leaves a month for all concerned to figure out their plans for what happens as the case goes forward.

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Why Openness?

Posted on March 25, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Brian Lamb has a new post on why faculty should to release their materials openly. From the post:

I thought I might reproduce an email I just sent off to a faculty member at UBC that I am trying to convince of the value of opening up a course reader.

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