I'm still moving through Wouter's post from several weeks ago...next on the list: Are we going to go with Creative Commons ( http://creativecommons.org/ ) as ...
I think Creative Commons is as good as anything. They certainly have a lot of financial backing and grassroots support. However, it should be pointed out that...
A big one is the Connexions project (http://cnx.rice.edu/). There are others. I have a short list up at http://www.commontext.org/sites.html Feel free to...
one good point, too, about creative commons licenses is that they happen to be written by some of the best legal minds regarding copyright and digital texts....
Let me just suggest that we adopt the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike license for texts/images/a.v./multimedia and the GNU GPL for software. This is...
Hey...it's up! Charlie and I spent some time this week getting a site setup (i.e. Charlie did the work, I talked to him...:)). We are having trouble getting a...
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Hey...just so you know, the polls close today on approving our vision/purpose/services statements. Lately, I've been thinking about how people will create and...
... I'm not convinced that individual blogsite software is the best way to do this because I'm wondering how the project will scale, as well other limitations...
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... The problem with MT is that you don't have any other metadata attached to an item. I agree that you need the ease of use of a weblogging tool however. ...
Hiya, What I'm looking at is roughtly this: - RSS files listing LO metadata - Havest RSS files, use data to harvest LO metadata, store LO metadata - search...
Hi...I'll be interviewing Lawrence Lessig shortly...on the subject of "openness" of educational content. If this group is ok with it, I think it would be a...
I've commented on this in OLDaily... Lessig is (to a large degree) taking a legalistic approach - hence, eg. his court challenge of Eldred. But it is arguable...
There's another problem with MoveableType as well. It does not have an open source license that meets the OSI standard. Use rights are severly limited and can...
Here's a question which ties to Lessig's recent presentation, one that I think is that asks a question in the current debates (Dave M. may have a better way to...
Good question, Charlie--No, I don't think I can do much better than that! I do have another question, though: Many efforts such as Creative Commons and the...
Hi... I'd like to invite you to attend a virtual discussion (using vClass): Topic: Open Education: Moving from Concept to Reality Date: April 29 Time: 2:00 pm...