QUESTIONS: How can you build a sustainable business around giving away educational materials? How can you build a sustainable business model around giving away credentialed degrees? Should governments fund open education? Sustainable business model – start with a customer need: As I learned early on in my business courses, successful business models are based on […]
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Based on the readings and assignment for week 7 in the Introduction to Open Education … As I noted at the end of my post last week, it is likely that most supporters of the OER movement feel the more “open” the work, the greater the value. Further, I agree with Brian Lamb’s observation during
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The free online K12 Online Conference kicks off today. It is fun to follow the excitement by following the “official” conference tweets at http://twitter.com/k12online, as well as the fan tweet reactions from the “FO07k12O” (that is friends of 07 k12online)! The WP blog is really well organized, as is the wiki. Here is a link
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Based on the readings for week 6 in the Introduction to Open Education Course, here are the questions we are pondering: QUESTIONS: Understanding the importance and value of the public domain, how much (what percentage) of this value would you estimate is realized when works are licensed with a Creative Commons or GFDL license? To
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Week 5 – Introduction to Open Education – Comparison of Open Education Projects Open Learn Rice University Connexions Carnegie Mellon UNESCO MIT OCW National Repository Outside Funding Sources Hewlett Hewlett Individuals Hewlett Premium Partners Foundations: Hewlett Mellon Lord Kabcenell Corporate Sponsors Individual Donations Hewlett Stated Area of Focus Gives free access to course materials from
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While I was out making new connections at the Open Learn Conference (check out EdTechWeekly #47 for some highlights), Dave and Jeff were charging forward making new connections of their own during the New Media Literacies in Learning Landscapes Conference in Charlottetown, PEI . As Will notes, “we’re not quite there yet” with some of
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