Hi Frederick, Agreed -- the Khan Academy has an amazing set of resources.
Unfortunately the Khan Academy uses a BY-NC-SA license which does not meet the requirements of the free cultural works definition - see: http://wikieducator.org/Creative_Commons_unplugged/The_CC_licenses Therefore we will not be able to integrate and remix these materials for use in WikiEducator. When Sal Kahn started with the Khan Academy -- all his materials were licensed as all rights reserved. After requests from educators working in the free culture, Sal migrated changed his license to CC-BY-SA (which is a free cultural works approved license.) This was great and WikiEducators started to think about how we could remix these videos into lesson plans. See: http://wikieducator.org/Khan_Academy_Video_Lessson_Demo/Video_lesson Sadly the Khan Academy changed to license to now include the NC restriction. What's interesting is that legally, a Creative Commons License is irrevocable -- therefore all videos released on his site prior to changing to include the NC restriction would theoretically be available for remix, but not sure how many copies were made and distributed on the web before the change. There are other examples of this kind of enclosure where more restrictive licenses were applied after the fact. CK12 <http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/>, used to use a CC-BY-SA license (and to the best of my knowledge, a number of their textbooks used material from Wikipedia which is released under a CC-BY-SA license.) CK12 then subsequently changed their license to include the NC restriction. I hope that CK12 did the right thing and deleted all the content in their flexbooks which was sourced from Wikipedia to ensure that they adhere to the license conditions. Cheers Wayne 2011/7/6 Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا < [email protected]> > http://www.khanacademy.org has some great educational videos. Wonder > if these could be included in educational listings and whether they > are already under some sharable license... > > FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm) > #784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India > http://fn.goa-india.org http://goa1556.goa-india.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] -- Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducator<http://www.wikieducator.org> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg> | identi.ca<http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh> Wikiblog <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
