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CC Talks With: IssueLab’s Lisa Brooks on Opening Up Research
Jane Park, June 16th, 2009
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ccLearn recently spoke with Lisa Brooks from IssueLab. Instead of crossing telephone lines (who does that anymore anyway?), I caught up with her via that archaic method of correspondence known as electronic mail…*
*Similarly archaic, but not outdated in coolness factor, are comics. The first comic issue of Inside OER [...]
CC Talks With: Nina Paley
Cameron Parkins, June 3rd, 2009
Nina Paley’s Sita Sings The Blues, released online a little over two months ago, has been generating great press and even greater viewership, closing in on 70,000 downloads at archive.org alone. For the non-inundated, there is great background information on the film at Paley’s website.
We recently had the opportunity to talk with Paley about the [...]
CC Talks With: DJ Vadim
Cameron Parkins, May 20th, 2009
Having played over 1600 gigs in over 60 countries, DJ Vadim is no stranger to the concept of ‘fan interaction’. Beyond his live shows, Vadim pushes experiments with interaction further, having held a remix contest at ccMixter a little under two years ago to promote his album The Sound Catcher. The contest was a great [...]
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CC Talks With: MCM
Cameron Parkins, May 15th, 2009
As CC continues to grow and expand, one of the best ways we’ve found to communicate our mission and what our licenses can provide to new members of our community is by letting the rest of the community do the talking. We highlight stories on our blog and twitter, work with groups to flesh out [...]
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CC Talks With: CK-12 Foundation’s Neeru Khosla on Open Textbooks
Jane Park, April 28th, 2009
Back in March, we were so excited about the new Physics Flexbook aligned to Virginia’s state standards that we had to catch up with the foundation that helped to make it possible. The obvious choice was Neeru Khosla, co-founder of the CK-12 Foundation, “a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook [...]
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CC Talks With: David Bollier
Mike Linksvayer, March 5th, 2009
As promised in last week’s post on The Commons Video, here’s an interview with David Bollier, author of Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, which we said in January “will likely establish itself as a definitive guide for those seeking to understand and discover the key players and concepts [...]
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CC Talks With: University of Michigan Library
Cameron Parkins, February 19th, 2009
Over the past year, the University of Michigan Library has shown itself to be particularly sensible in regards to open content licensing, the public domain, and issues of copyright in the digital age. The U-M Library has integrated public domain book machines, adopted CC licensing for their content, and independently had their Copyright Specialist, Molly [...]
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CC Talks With: The Global Lives Project
Cameron Parkins, January 23rd, 2009
The Global Lives Project is a project that aims to “record 24 hours in the lives of ten people that roughly represent the diversity our planet’s population.” Accomplishing this via a volunteer-network dispersed through out the globe, GLP aggregates video for these subjects based on a unique spreadsheet approach to understand global demographics. All of [...]
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CC Talks With: Deproduction
Cameron Parkins, January 12th, 2009
Deproduction is a Denver-based video production company that has a variety of media incarnations, from Public Access TV aggregate Denver Open Media to civic pixel, an open-source web development group. All the material produced for DOM is released under a CC BY-NC-SA license, making it freely sharable and remixable as long as the creators are [...]
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CC Talks With: Collaborative Statistics — An Open Textbook Model
Jane Park, December 3rd, 2008
One of the most exciting sub-movements within open education is the current revolution regarding the evolution of textbooks. Old-fashioned publishers would often (and still do) rack up prices to hundreds of dollars per textbook, but this business model is rapidly changing to favor vastly cheaper educational resources based on more open licensing policies. One driver [...]
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