It’s been exactly one month since the band Walk Off the Earth uploaded their cover of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” to YouTube. More than 48 million views later, they are on fire and courting multiple record labels. Think of it this way, if 1 in 20 viewers bought…
Making friends in Barcelona with Floyd the inflatable flamingo
This week I tested a new hypothesis: I learned that it’s significantly easier to make friends in a foreign country when you bring a giant, inflatable pink flamingo along for the ride. You don’t even have to speak the language. I met Floyd at the AECT conference last week in…
Free Samples – USU OpenCourseWare is a Virtual Visitor’s Center: Part 2
David Wiley left a comment on my last post about USU OpenCourseWare sustainability that sparked a new post. David’s comment: I think the problem of the moment is that every person on campus is asking, with regard to their specific program, “how do you justify NOT paying for it?” And…
USU OpenCourseWare is a Virtual Visitor’s Center
I’ve been talking to several schools about how they fund their OpenCourseWare programs. The more I do, the more I see that most OCWs are simply not going to make money. That is not their aim. So what does it mean to be sustainable or self-sustaining? Does it always involve…