FYI - http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/in-victory-for-open-education-movement-blackboard-embraces-sharing http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/10/19/in_wake_of_pearson_openclass_unveiling_blackboard_announces_oer_support
One key to Blackboard’s new “Share” feature is a partnership with Creative > Commons, which offers licenses for free content. When professors choose to > make their courses free, they will be presented with options to easily > attach a Creative Commons license, something they otherwise would have to do > manually. Cable Green, director of global learning for Creative Commons, > says that incorporating a sharing option within Blackboard will have a > significant impact on the number of professors who make their course > materials free. Mr. Green says he is in discussions with other companies > that make course-management systems to persuade them to add similar features > to their products. “My goal is to have this kind of option in every > commercial learning-management system and also open-source ones,” he says. -- Timothy Vollmer http://creativecommons.org/about/people/#timothyvollmer phone = +016086982403 | skype = timothyvollmer | tw = @tvol Please donate to the CC Annual Campaign, going on now! https://creativecommons.net/donate -- Timothy Vollmer Open Policy Fellow, Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/about/people/#timothyvollmer
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