New site aims to market free online lectures

Carter, D. (2009) ‘New site aims to market free online lectures’ eSchool News, Feb 13

Academic Earth, a for-profit web site, bases its business model on mining the internet for and then posting publicly available lectures from prestigious universities under the Creative Commons license. Advertising with lectures?!

Open educational resources (OER)

Whatever happened to learning objects? Well, they’ve been replaced (or rather swallowed up) by open educational resources. Increasingly, more and more institutions are making online educational resources and course materials available free of charge for educational or non-profit purposes. So will content be free in education in the future? I think this deserves a blog [...]