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Failure of Creative Commons Licenses

Tony Karrer

The one good thing that came out of it was that at least MIT recognized this failure and has additional information: MIT Interpretation of "Non-commercial" ": Non-commercial use means that users may not sell, profit from, or commercialize OCW materials or works derived from them. Commercialization is prohibited.

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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

Big publishers are having problems as the cost of distribution goes towards zero and as that brings along a ton of competition from the low end. But all major publications have limitations in that because of the cost, they have to go after large audiences and they need to stay at higher level topics. Total cost: zero.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

Text-to-Speech Examples Text-to-Speech Costs – Licensing and Pricing But what I learned from this was that it was a fantastic way to learn about a topic where I was interested but didn’t have the time to spend researching it. Top eLearning Sites? Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0

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Daily Bookmarks 06/19/2008

Experiencing eLearning

ZaidLearn: University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE! Global Education On a Dime: A Low-Cost Way to Connect | Edutopia. Huge directory of links to free educational resources–open courseware, open educational resources, and general resources. Mostly higher ed. Learning in the Webiverse: How Do You Grade a Conversation?

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Reading the tea Leaves in my tabs: Our ecosystem is Commodified

Mark Oehlert

So we can move from education to training to means of production for either free or something that is so low cost as compared to what the cost would've been 5 or 10 years ago that the price appears at least to be trending to the free. . Lynda.com : . CodeAcademy : . Udacity : . Treehouse : . Stand-alone marketplace. Open Sesame : .

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

Essentially telling the CEO – we’ll produce more and better quality – but it’s not going to cost any more. For a lot of training offerings they will look to keep costs very low – build it fast and inexpensively. So in 2010, you are going to be asked to produce faster, lower cost learning solutions.