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opencontent Chris Snyder at Wired exercised his detective skills on Bijan Sabet’s recent tweet to find out who Spark Capital (one of the VCs that funded Twitter) has been talking to recently: i had a mtg with a company today & one of their execs had the title ‘Chief Openness Officer’ What company is so committed … Read more
Version 1.3 of the GFDL was released today. Section 11 contains directions for Relicensing, giving “Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Sites” (why can’t Richard just call them wikis like everyone else?) like Wikipedia the option to change away from the GFDL and adopt CC-By-SA as their license. This is a glorious day for license incompatibility in the … Read more
Just a quick link to a collection of “standards” for determining whether your online courses are of sufficient quality or not. I wonder how my open courses would rate… Quality Matters Online Course Evaluation Project Standards NACOL National Standards of Quality for Online Courses