[Oer-community] On-line education is using a flawed Creative Commons license

[Steve Foerster]

Ilkka wrote:

> I think Wayne's point about MIT OCW was very interesting.
> From the outcome point of view, the MIT OCW non-commercial
> restriction has lead to much broader availability and use
> of the resources that could have been possible without NC.
> More restricted can sometimes be better if the objective
> is wide access.

My understanding is not that using the NC restriction made the materials
more available, it's that faculty members were more inclined to
contribute materials if they knew the materials would be released with
the NC restriction.

The end result was still less freedom for users of those materials, but
it was deemed worth it for the trade off of having more costless
materials be publicly available than would have been otherwise.

-=Steve=-


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