Change.gov Goes CC-By

President-elect Obama’s Change.gov website has formally adopted the Creative Commons Attribution license as it’s standard copyright license for the site. High marks for President-elect Obama on this! Now, if we can just get Lessig appointed as Copyright Czar we’ll have a prayer of seeing real copyright reform during the next administration.

Intro to Open Education – “The Game”

Winter semester I’m teaching a new version of the Introduction to Open Education course here at BYU. I’m as excited for this course as I’ve ever been for any – partly because the course has been completely redesigned as a massively multiplayer role-playing game. From the Syllabus: Instructional design faculty are frequently criticized for delivering … Read more

Content IS Infrastructure (Welcome to the club, Chris)

Chris Lott’s recent post Open Content is So, Like, Yesterday has earned him Stephen’s attention and misinterpretation. Well, that’s happened to many of us. =) I want to remix a little of his post and provide some supporting comments: Good open content is a vital part of creating a vital open education apparatus… Content is … Read more