More on Larry Lessig’s book Code v2….this time on a couple ideas from the book that I have a hard time agreeing with. I agree with many of Lessig’s points. In particular, he is a staunch defender of fair use
Open Ed-Week 8-Sustainability
QUESTIONS: How can you build a sustainable business around giving away educational materials? How can you build a sustainable business model around giving away credentialed degrees? Should governments fund open education? (Do they already?) I’m going to take a different
OpenEd-Week 9 (yes, I’m jumping around)
Two of the best things about the OpenEd course I’ve been blogging about are the conversations among the brilliant and diverse participants and the reading list for the course. In addition to supplemental readings on a variety of issues critical
A licensing compromise
For those who want to use open licenses but have concerns about giving others commercial rights, one option to consider is specifying a more restrictive license (e.g. CC-NC) for a limited time (e.g. 5 years) after which the license will
Open Ed-Week 7-Licensing issues
QUESTIONS: Can you think of license options that CC is currently missing that would benefit the open education movement? As the CC and GFDL licenses are incompatible, how can OCW content be legally remixed with Wikipedia content? Some people claim