Glyn Moody has a new post wondering how to preserve content in the long-term. From the post:
Doubtless at some point some sharp entrepreneur will interpret this coming need as an opportunity. Just as you can pay a company to keep your cryogenically-preserved body against the day when a cure will be found for whatever ailment you eventually die of, so there will be companies offering digital immortality for your content.
Stephen Downes and David Wiley are participating in debate regarding the commercial use of open educational resources.
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Bernd Remmele has posted an article on the economics of open learning. From the article:
The article explores the possibility of finding marketable services in relation to the selection function, arguing that degree-providing institutions can offer learners credits for the competences acquired during open learning, in other words, re-formalizing the process.
Several websites are reporting that the LMS company Instructure has received $8 million in funding. The company’s LMS, Canvas, is open source. Coverage from ReadWriteWeb, ZDNet Education and the Wall Street Journal.
Glyn Moody has a new post discussing the Berlin Declaration, a document signed by notable European publishers. From the declaration:
The current reality is that the many publishers now initiating new paid-for solutions are faced with technological giants that may want to control the various dimensions of content distribution. The result could be publishers losing some core competencies, such as price setting, as well as their valued, direct relationships with readers (notably via subscription management).
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Saravanan Thirumuruganathan has a new post on how to support MIT OCW when shopping through Amazon. From the post:
Amazon gives MIT OCW 10% referral when people buy items from Amazon when either clicking on book links from OCW or when they visit to Amazon through the URLs in the referral page.
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Leigh Blackall has a new post expressing frustration with unsuccessful attempts to evangelize Open Ed at his institution. From the post:
I don’t enjoy working in education, demonstrating and proposing new practices to what amounts to being a non responsive, often hostile audience, with near zero connection to any measure of a local learning and research community, and all that after 7 years working at it too!
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Startl is announcing $25,000 for a business plan that involves open educational resources. From the announcement:
The intention is to catalyze models that increase access to and dramatically lower the cost of learning. Startl is seeking to inspire entrepreneurs to think creatively about how to incorporate open principles into their core business strategy.
Stephen Downes comments.
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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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Paul Stacey has a new post comparing foundation funded OER vs.OER funded by taxpayers. From the post:
If OER are going to transition to public funding its worth looking at foundation mandates and goals and thinking about the extent to which they match up with public funder mandates and goals.
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