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> Date: 12 May 2011 15:46:34 CEST
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> Subject: [dpla-discussion] OCWC 2011
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> Hi:
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> At the MIT-hosted global meeting of Open CourseWare producers last week, we released more openly licensed open educational resources (OER) in Wikipedia--specifically, video assets in the Wikimedia Commons:
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> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MIT_OCW_lectures
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> These first bits, recorded lectures from MIT physics professor Walter Lewin (entertaining as well as educational), have been edited into small chunks that are now being deployed in related articles; they have been converted into open/unencumbered video formats; and they have been provided with the blanket CC-BY-SA license required for truly open content on the web. Click through some of these MIT video clips and you will see the underlying license and tech info.
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> This is the real deal. It helps make OER as it was defined 10 years ago (the MIT meeting celebrated the 10th anniversary of MIT OCW) truly open and available on the largest educational commons on the web (whatever its faults), not just on the proprietary (and commercial) sites we have deen using to date, like Google's YouTube and Apple's iTunes.
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> Coders around the world are now developing automated methods of finding rich media that carries such licenses and bringing it into the Wikimedia Commons to help advertise its availability for educational use and remix.
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> New info about Wikipedia (including critiques, etc.; the various obligatory references to Baudrillard, Adorno & Horkheimer [a CPA firm on the Lower East Side]; but also a how-to essay about putting video into the Encyclopedia) can be found in this collection:
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> http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/lang/de/reader/
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> Opportunities for DPLA planning abound.
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> Cheers,
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> -- Peter.
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