A Case Study in Obstacles to and Strategies for Negotiating the Relicensing of Third-Party Content

Over the past four years, the Saylor Foundation has developed over 300* college level courses, made up of nearly 28,000 educational objects (essays, textbooks, videos, assessments, etc.).  Initially, our goal was to use the wide breadth of resources available online to build these courses.  We encouraged the use of openly licensed and public domain materials, […]

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Saylor Foundation Classroom Lectures

When many people think of Open Education, their minds may naturally go to the exceptional online lecture series that have been created by universities such as Yale, MIT, and Stanford.  For students who normally wouldn’t have access to traditional schooling, these freely available videos give students the feeling that they are sitting with other students, […]

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The Stop Online Piracy Act

Editor’s Note: On October 26, 2011, H.R. 3261 – or the Stop Online Piracy Act – was introduced in the United States House of Representatives, aiming to stop “foreign online criminals from stealing and selling America’s intellectual property and keeping the profits for themselves.”  Many organizations are protesting this bill as its language threatens the infrastructure […]

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