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The questions for this week: Understanding the importance and value of the public domain, how much (what percentage) of this value would you estimate is realized when works are licensed with a Creative Commons or GFDL license? To what degree

Of obvious importance in developing educational materials is the readability level. Unfortunately, not enough attention is paid to this measure. In fact, it is possible to write materials at a relatively low readability level and still convey advanced content. Doing

This week’s assignment: QUESTIONS: What do these representative open education projects have in common? What differentiates them? In the context of open education projects, what does “quality” mean? These projects have more that differentiates them then they have in common,

This is a great video about OER and the Connexions project from TED. (If you aren’t familiar with TED, it’s a phenomenal conference with “inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers. The videos from it are licensed under

In the United States, most government-published content is public domain. Does anyone know if that is the case elsewhere in the world, particularly in the developing world? A quick web search didn’t turn up much on this, so I appreciate