Pearson’s new OpenClass LMS hit the Google Apps Marketplace today. While this has already been covered in several places, I’ve had many discussions about the wide array of learning management systems out there, and the one question that comes up repeatedly is “how do we know they won’t just get…
YouTube + Creative Commons = Awesome!
Google’s YouTube started supporting for the CC-BY Creative Commons open license yesterday. Awesome news, and just in time for our Open Course Library phase 1 videos, which we will be captioning and moving to YouTube very soon. Here’s the announcement from the Creative Commons blog: YouTube has added the Creative…
Guns, penguins, and open textbooks
Cable Green likes to say, “When you share your content, good things happen.” I tend to agree, but could one of those “good things” actually be a more efficient use of taxpayer dollars? PC World just published a blog on Open Source Software called “Is Open Source Up to Par?…
Open Education Tools: The affordances of openness
I remember back in the old days, in the early 90’s, when the Internet still seemed like a fad to most people. Back before America Online started flooding the world with its endless stream of AOL CD offers, and you couldn’t just assume everyone had email. Back in the days…