Interestingly, I saw a "debate" between Rory McGreal and Stepben Downes online about the relative merits of CC BY and CC BY-NC where Stephen was arguing that NC was not more restrictive. I'm afraid I was with Rory on that one as I believe restricting commercial use would be a barrier to the dissemination of knowledge.
Is the OERu agnostic on this? Brian On Tuesday, 5 November 2013 05:49:29 UTC, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > > Creative Commons is the air that OER breathes. Creative Commons provides > the legal tools to enable the realisation of the OER vision for more > affordable education futures. > > *Coming at a time of dramatically rising higher education cost and high > youth unemployment, the OERu provides a parallel learning universe based > solely on OER, quality assurance, and institutional accreditation. The OERu > sees OER as a key means of expanding and sustaining higher education and > aims to see OER and open education practices integrated into every > institution in the world. *Read more ... > <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/40361> > > > > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. > Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> > Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic > UNESCO-COL Chair in OER, Otago Polytechnic & OER Foundation > 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] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
