Derek Keats, who I greatly respect and admire, responded to my earlier post with this reply:
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Misquoting Adams on the UNESCO IIEP List
You may be somewhat surprised to hear that talk on the UNESCO IIEP list, set up for the discussion of open educational resources, has temporarily turned to the topic of open versus free versus libre again. 🙂 Here is my contribution to the conversation, in which I quote and than “adapt” John Adams…
Why Universities Choose NC, and What You Can Do
Reading Wayne Macintosh’s feature on WikiEducator got me thinking again about some people’s dissatisfaction with those projects that use the NC clause. (I’m not a fan of the NC clause, but I have never projected these negative feelings onto institutions or faculty who adopt the clause.) So I started asking myself – why do universities adopt the NC clause for their OER projects in the first place? And if we wish they wouldn’t use the NC clause, what can we do about it?