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Comment on For the Folks at home: OpenEd09 by Leigh Blackall

Leigh Blackall — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:57:54 +0000

No competition in NZ. There is only the Polytechnic who has declared itself Open Ed by writing a policy that defaults all content to CC By. That was the easy part. Now begins the years of undoing the culture grown in our organisation, to think that protecting content and process was “a good business model”.

I would suggest that you take my research that is saying that 13 staff at the Polytechnic have generated $80 000 worth of branding awareness and IT capacity by openly publishing their resources on teh Internet. Use that as an argument to review the Copyright Policy of UC. Change that policy so that individuals have the power to determine what copyrights to use, and if that person wishes to us UC as a platform to present their work, that it be licensed CC By.

This way, UC still protects its interests and has open access to any IP produced by a staff member, the staff member gains elements of motivation, and UC and the staff member gain in brand awareness.

Instigating a policy like this is the easy part though. Changing the culture is the hard part. But he culture can’t change without a high level policy that removes any threat of the change being undermined later.

Comment on Day one: finished presentation by For the Folks at home: OpenEd09 « light in the shadows

For the Folks at home: OpenEd09 « light in the shadows — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:12:35 +0000

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Comment on OpenED contribution 1: Introduction by OpenEd contribution: the minuses « light in the shadows

OpenEd contribution: the minuses « light in the shadows — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:06:28 +0000

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Comment on Vancouver and OpenED conference by Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:45:27 +0000

Look forward to meeting you in Vancouver Derek. I passed around the URL for this post on twitter letting local Vancouver “educational designers” you might be interested to meet, so maybe that will turn something up. And if you are looking for something to do on the 11th feel free to signup for the Downes/Wiley discussion (http://sites.wiki.ubc.ca/opened09/index.php/Main_Page) as it promises to be a good one, and it’s free! Cheers, Scott Leslie

Comment on Portugal: what it was all about (1) THEKA (Fri, Sat) by maria jose vitorino

maria jose vitorino — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:01:55 +0000

A bit late, but I found it and appreciate! A lot!
Time travels fast, minds not so fast. Somehow, we hope there’s a corner for us to meet again
Maria Jose Vitorino

Comment on Intranets for schools by Adam Bent

Adam Bent — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:51:24 +0000

Hi,

I have just come across this article from Google.

I operate a company in the UK that develops an Intranet system designed for schools which appears to meet all the criteria specified here. So, please feel free to take a look and download the fully featured unrestricted trial.

http://introupe.anbsoftware.co.uk or http://schoolnet.anbsoftware.co.uk

Kind regards,
Adam Bent
Managing Director
ANB Software Ltd

Comment on OER and Samoa by Adam Micolich

Adam Micolich — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:48:40 +0000

Hi Derek,

Thanks for that. Yeah, they need to have a mail-in point that isn’t a blog comment on these sites.

Cheers, A

Comment on We have our Moodle Trial by Chirnside Derek

Chirnside Derek — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:30:44 +0000

Hi Moodle Confused, sorry it has taken so long to get back to you. I was undecided whether you were serious or not.
Check out the deals for hosted solutions like Catalyst or MoodleRooms. I’m not sure whether I have ever used the term ‘Free’. More flexible, more responsive, cheaper maybe.
The critical advantages are listed in the post: we can sort problems (or get them sorted) whereas with commercial software (like for instance a typical SMS) we are at the mercy of the owners.

Comment on We have our Moodle Trial by Moodle Confused

Moodle Confused — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:57:24 +0000

Re Moodle: I must admit I cannot see what all the hype is about. I can’t actually see where the advantages are with the open source deal. I can’t code nor want to spend time learning how Moodle works which means I have to pay for a developer or hire a Moodle consultancy, so tell me again, how this is free, what am I saving? Seems the Moodle model is swapping money for time?

Comment on Moodle Trial (Week 6) by Sarah Stewart

Sarah Stewart — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:55:32 +0000

Hi Derek, nice to meet you the other day. Thanks for your advice about netvibes. I could do a similar thing in igoogle page but mine wont take another tab for some reason. cheers Sarah