I think that we should respectfully divorce ourselves from the open movement—they will not accept the “Free to Fair” transition. We at FWK should design our own license. This will […]
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The Open Argument: Case Examples
Only Flat World Knowledge (was openly licensed, no longer open access) and Bookboon (open access, but not openly licensed) are trying to commercialize OER, with each taking a different path towards sustainability. All […]
The Open Argument: Other Licenses
There are other licenses that we could use, rather than a Creative Commons license. Or we could come up with our own proprietary license, as other entities have done: FWK License 1.0. […]
The Open Argument: From Free to Fair
Until the end of this year, our license at FWK was CC-BY-NC-SA with an open access version (Web). As of 1/1/13, our license will have to change, since there will […]
The Ivory Tower Is Under Attack
Colleges had better get relevant, and quick. Sure—Gates, Jobs, and Zuckerberg were exceptional, and are held up consistently to construct the myth of what we can attain. Probably does more […]
The Open Argument: Open for Everyone?
Can you offer your content under different licenses to different users? There is some confusion around this, but the CC legal code says that the license is about the use […]
Defining Success in EdTech
Caity Doyle’s post last week (Are Most Edtech Startups Doomed to Fail?) got me thinking. What does success mean? And are we on the right track? I think of us at […]
The Open Argument: Is FWK open or not?
Until the end of this year, our license at FWK was CC-BY-NC-SA with an open access version (Web). Here’s a video explaining our license and why we chose it. With […]
McGraw-Hill Sold for a Fraction of Cengage
Great post by Thad McIlroy in his blog, “Future Of Publishing.” The numbers say it all. There’s been plenty of evidence that this industry is broken, in the micro view: […]
The Open Argument: Dissing the Non-Commercial Clause
There are a lot of folks who seek to get rid of the Non-Commercial clause in CC licenses, stating that they are not open. See for example, “The case against -NC.” […]