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Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Udacity Hedges On Open Licensing For MOOCs - Education - Online - 0 views

  • MOOCs) offered by players like Udacity, Coursera, and edX are open in terms of access and are offered for free
  • MOOCs sometimes take advantage of OER materials such as freely downloadable textbooks to keep the overall cost of a course down, but the courses themselves are not typically available under the same permissive licensing.
  • "Everything we do is available on YouTube under a Creative Commons 3.0 license," Thrun said
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  • It's a technical problem, more than a licensing problem.
  • perhaps as open-source software
  • that the content and content access should be free. Even the interactive experience, the computerized part would be free -- subsidized, actually -- but the services we provide are not free
  • I think it would be hard to make a lot of money with content in an age where content can easily go from one platform to another.
  • The remixing is a good point -- you certainly can take our videos
  • labeled "Standard YouTube License."
  • A MOOC licensed in this way would be on par with an OER textbook, like the ones from OpenStax College, which instructors can use as is or with their own modifications
  • the YouTube program is specific to CC BY -- the most permissive version
  • Udacity's Terms of Service specify that content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License, the most restrictive version
  • derivative works are expressly prohibited
  • Creative Commons Director of Global Learning Cable Green specifically recommends that CC NC ND works not be considered OER.
  • Udacity has gone farther in the direction of making these chunks of content independently available than the other big MOOCs
  • "Except as otherwise expressly permitted in these Terms of Use, you may not copy, sell, display, reproduce, publish, modify, create derivative works from, transfer, distribute or otherwise commercially exploit in any manner the Class Sites, Online Courses, or any Content.
  • this is being treated as a gray area
  • Those aren't unreasonable terms for a startup trying to discover a business model, but neither are they OER.
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    "While videos from free courses are freely available on YouTube, the ability of instructors to remix is limited."
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Massive Open Online Courses Prove Popular, if Not Lucrative Yet - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • By TAMAR LEWIN Published: January 6, 2013
  • In less than a year, Coursera has attracted $22 million in venture capital
  • Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have each provided $30 million to create edX.
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  • with $15 million in financing
  • All of this could well add up to the future of higher education — if anyone can figure out how to make money.
  • We don’t want to make the mistake the newspaper industry did, of giving our product away free online for too long.
  • payment of licensing fees from other educational institutions that want to use the Coursera classes
  • charge $20, or maybe $50, for certificates of completion
  • charge corporate employers, including Facebook and Twitter, for access to high-performing students, starting with those studying software engineering
  • Antioch University’s Los Angeles campus had agreed to offer its students credit for successfully completing two Coursera courses, Modern and Contemporary American Poetry and Greek and Roman Mythology, both taught by professors from the University of Pennsylvania. Antioch would be the first college to pay a licensing fee
  • Coursera’s terms of use require that anyone using the courses commercially get a license, and because licensing would give colleges their own course Web site, including access to grades
  • Many educators predict that the bulk of MOOC revenues will come from licensing remedial courses and “gateway” introductory courses in subjects like economics or statistics
  • Mr. Rock, whose university has produced 16 Coursera courses, said each one costs about $50,000 to create, the biggest expenses being the videography and paying the teaching assistants who monitor the discussion forum
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