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Globally democratized learning is indeed a good thing

Thursday, July 1, 2010

I’m blogging over at P2PU these days, mostly about issues of specific relevance to that project, but I posted a response to a Chronicle of Higher Education piece today that is equally at home here. Apologies for the cross-posting.

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Pearson Deal with Montgomery County Public Schools: All Your Content Are Belong To Us

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Yesterday the Washington Post ran an article titled “Global firm to pay Montgomery, Md., schools millions for elementary curriculum.” Essentially, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) have signed a deal with Pearson, the global publishing behemoth, under which MCPS will develop educational curriculum and transfer the copyright to Pearson. In exchange, Pearson will pay $2.25 million, [...]

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Association of American Publishers continues its campaign of textbook (mis)information

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The Open Educational Resource movement, based on the idea that educational content which is publicly licensed for modification and redistribution is a positive innovation in education, has just begun to break into the mainstream. Conceptually, the idea has been in the public sphere for years now with projects like the OpenCourseWare growing to over 200 [...]

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Peer 2 Peer in action in Berlin

Friday, November 20, 2009

Photo by John Britton CC BY-SA
A Peer 2 Peer University co-founder recently posed this question to our tight knit community of volunteers: “Where are we in terms of P2PU’s evolution (one guy with his shirt off, or three people falling over themselves?)” Of course, this question was in reference to this infamous YouTube video of [...]

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All educational use as “fair use”?

Monday, November 9, 2009

Something I hear frequently is this wish that all “educational uses” be considered “fair uses,” thereby presumably freeing the resources from the usual constraints of copyright. How shall we count the ways that this seemingly simple idea is confused at best, and horribly wrong at worst? Let’s see…
1. Define “educational use” for me. Does it [...]

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