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Open Source as Business Model - Open source bleeding to death?

Posted 31st May, 2010 in by dave.cormier

I think one of the more interesting trends that I indentified wandering through research on Open source is its use as a business model. In my own experience I've seen a number of companies in the open source world slowly move to services based business over the last 5 years or so. The companies have gotten vastly more organized and they have affiliate companies that are allowed to sell 'services' associated with the software.

Futures of the liberal arts

Posted 28th April, 2010 by dave.cormier
Slidecast form a short futures presentation i made last week.
Futures for the arts, humanities and social sciences

Are we becoming a guild? Should we be?

Posted 22nd April, 2010 by dave.cormier

This is a quick introduction to the idea of the 'guild' in education from my rhizomatic stuff. (more here http://davecormier.com/edblog/2010/01/27/community-as-curriculum-vol-2-t... )

Are we a guild?

Accreditation and assessment in an Open Course - an opening proposal

Posted 18th April, 2010 in by dave.cormier

We've received several questions about accreditation for this course. It's difficult when confronted with the multitude of options available for learning to choose, and one of the key things that people are looking for in a learning experience is a defined set of outcomes for them professionally. They want to be able to justify the time to the institutions, to their colleagues and to the people they share their lives with.

An uber-simplistic review of assessment and accreditation - Just so we're on the same page

First thoughts on building this website

Posted 28th March, 2010 by dave.cormier

Well... I've tried to build the simplest website possible that still meets our basic requirements. It has a newsletter, a functional discussion forum, blogs, a schedule and a way for us to collect different bits of content that have been made (or will be used) for the course.

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