muraPOI: August 20, 2012
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Fast, Fair, and Frictionless Content Licensing On The Internet: Fred Wilson of AVC.com writes…
We need “a fast fair frictionless licensing system that isn’t based on propagating artificial scarcity”.
Word. I do this with Creative Commons licenses, but for those unwilling or unable to use Creative Commons licenses, we need this “fair frictionless licensing system”. I think there needs to be easy access on “fair” and “frictionless”.
(Via AVC.com, August 12, 2012)
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Musopen: They’ve recorded classical music and released it as public domain (for much classical music the music itself is long out of copyright, but the recordings of the musics may themselves be copyrighted by the performer(s)). Some, but not all of the music on the site is PD.
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Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers: I prefer to hire for the person, and I think I’ve done pretty well. I’m just looking for the opportunity to do so again!
(Via StartupDigest, August 16, 2012)
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Cracking the Biggest Barrier in Online Education: Motivation: I agree that motivation is a critical factor.
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Google+ Commentary on Web education platform Coursera hits 1m students just 4 months after launch: The comments here are a great addition to the article above.
(Via +EstherWojcicki)
- And the winner is… Aloha! Choosing a web editor…: Kathi Fletcher with the Shuttleworth Foundation, in collaboration with the folks at Booktype, is building a web-based text editor that Open Educational Resources projects can use that also include semantic markup. We hope that it’ll be more approachable than the Connexions editor or the Word-based or Oxygen-XML-based editors used by the Open University. I have great hopes that we’ll be able to adopt this work, and perhaps extended it with some of our work on formative assessment authoring at OEIT. (The link goes to an article by Adam Thomas of Booktype.)