opencontent

I recently realized… as long as I’m spending some of my time evangelizing on behalf of openness, maybe it would be a good idea for me to develop a deep understanding of the benefits of openness. I’ve always been an “argue by describing the benefits” kind of guy as opposed to an “argue on grounds … Read more

Stephen Downes posits that, “ultimately, the effect of Creative Commons licenses is to *preserve* copyright.” This argument is just silly, and is equivalent to saying that “ultimately, the effect of band-aids is that people will keep having boo-boos.” Creative Commons licenses are band-aids placed on a severely over-reaching and broken copyright system. Of course we … Read more

VSS 2010 – OER 101: Theory and Practice View more presentations from David Wiley. This presentation includes a significant amount of new thinking, so I share it here. First, this presentation presents a strengthened and clarified definition of OER that includes (1) free, (2) 4Rs permissions, and (3) technology and media choices that do not … Read more