Responding to Kira

Kira writes passionately (here; reposted here) about why Creative Commons should abandon the NC and ND clauses. S/he is wrong. The argument comes down to this: “The crux of the concern raised by Students for Free Culture comes down to weather Creative Commons will be locked in by pressures to serve the interests of rightsholders … Read more

Degreed Beta

For several months now I’ve been working with a great group of people on Degreed. Today we launched the public beta at the HASTAC/MacArthur grantees meeting (the Mozilla open badges functionality in Degreed is supported by a DML grant). So what does it do? Degreed eliminates the distinction between formal and informal learning by jailbreaking … Read more