Professor Derek and the NonCommercial restriction on freedom in open educational resources (#OER)
Channel: Derek Keats
Date: 2012-06-27

It is actually titled 'Professor Derek and the NonCommercial restriction on freedom in educational content'. I  made this presentation in 2006 during a workshop at eLearnAfrica in Addis Ababa, and I was hoping that by 2012, things would have improved. Instead, they have gotten worse, so it still seems totally relevant today. 

The Non-commercial restriction in educational content causes more problems than it solves, particularly when a resource might be useful in the developing world where people may not wish to preclude benefit from enhancements made by people who wish to allow commercial use. The sad thing is that it is entirely unnecessary for the purpose most people seem to choose it.