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"If you want to protect yourself from big corporations, use the SA clause. That makes sure anyone committed to openness can still use it, from the little people to a big business, but corporations who do not contribute thei work and their improvements back, even for you to use those improvements commercially, won't be able to. And they will always need to add value to it, and share that value with everyone, because the original is already available from you. And if a big business is really open and uses your work, you also get the credit and the economic benefits that come from reputation."

The recall of facts is not nearly the whole of learning, of course (though it is often presented as though it were), but the methodology outlined here accords with my own understanding (which I have styles as "practice and reflection"). "Surprisingly," writes the author, "scientific knowledge of how to learn and acquire factual knowledge is not a standard part of the curriculum in medical school." The program should be "taught actively by posing questions and quizzing students, provide tests to foster learning, and repeat the learning strategies in spaced intervals." What's interesting is that if this method is practiced, the person's ability to remember facts itself is improved. Which, when you think of it, makes sense. "With practice, the memory can be trained comparable to the training of a muscle." Image: secretGeek. Via Emily Springfield in an EDUCAUSE listserv.