Matt, Great to hear that you've chosen to use CC licenses and I'd love to have a chat with you about your licensing decisions (CC BY-NC-SA). We've put out a few Recommendation papers that are very relevant to your project: http://learn.creativecommons.org/productions/#Recommendations
I'd also love to chat about implementing the ccREL metadata spec as well as our DiscoverEd metadata recommendation ( http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcLearn_Search_Metadata) in order for your educational content to be searchable by our (and other) semantic search engines (our prototype is at http://discovered.creativecommons.org/search/). Another advantage to implementing the ccREL metadata spec is the ability to specifiy additional rights to the CC license you chose with CC+ (for example, a link to a page where someone could secure commercial or trademark rights). http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus I also know that the Open Video folks on this list (and myself) would love to see OGG/Theora implementation instead of/in addition to Quicktime and Flash. - Alex On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Matthew O. Brimer <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > I'm doing some strategy consulting for Yale these days, and one of the > projects I'm working on is *a compila**tion of strategic** recommendations > for Yale's open courseware initiative*, called Open Yale Courses: * > http://oyc.yale.edu*. OYC has some great content (in the form of HD video > lectures from selected courses), available in multiple formats. But it also > has some glaring needs and inadequacies. > > *I'd love to hear your thoughts on how we can improve things.* Feel free > to be frank -- the OYC site <http://oyc.yale.edu> is far from perfect and > could use some serious improvements. What needs to be changed? What would > YOU like to see? If Yale's current open courseware site design, syndication > strategy and content offerings were *yours to disseminate, syndicate, > chunk, remix, share, explore, and recommend, what would you do?* Yale is > in an unprecedented position right now, and it's vital we pitch in and > contribute! > > I am happy to be a mouthpiece to Yale (and luckily have the perfect role to > do so) for Free Culture and *how academic content *should* be approached, > opened up, and disseminated*. So go ahead, feel free to send me your > thoughts, ideas, complaints, suggestions, connections, etc. and I'll do what > I can to get them heard and acted on. > > If you're interested in getting involved further, let me know -- I'm > putting together *a small study group / discuss list for interested folk > who want to continue sharing ideas and discussing issues related to Yale > open courseware and digital strategy*. You have the ability to help make > some serious changes here in how a leading university works with academic > content and video for public consumption, as well as the broader strategy > for dissemination of said content, so join in! > > Cheers, > —Matt > > // *Matthew O. Brimer* > // [email protected] > // http://mobrimer.com > // http://twitter.com/brimer > // http://facebook.com/brimer > // http://www.linkedin.com/in/mobrimer > // 314.920.5052 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- Alex Kozak Education Program Assistant ccLearn, Creative Commons
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