eclectic, pragmatic, enthusiastic
opencontent As most of my readers know, we have been using the name eduCommons for our open source OpenCourseWare software for many years now. (See http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/ for more information). Actually, our first National Science Foundation proposal using this name went in in 2001, I believe. However, today I saw that Creative Commons Canada has launched a … Read more
UPDATE: This is in response to Stephen’s comments on my last post. If I had a dime for every time I titled an entry like this… đŸ™‚ Stephen, it’s nice to have you back. This article seems to still take the point of view of republishers or educators. Yes, I am an educator, and this … Read more
1. It’s an empirically verifiable fact that the greater number of rights a license reserves, the more people are willing to adopt the license. At the extremes of the continuum, almost everyone takes an “all rights reserved” approach while almost no one takes a “no rights reserved whatsoever” approach. The middle cases can be quickly … Read more