[okfn-discuss] Einstein University - free university/ academic social network

Sat Mar 19 20:30:59 UTC 2011

Done! Thanks for the suggestion. I also use the wikichat, wikilog, widget and social profile extension. This allows each open textbook to have it's own chat room, discussion page, seminars and open journals which you can embed with videos and presentations. We are working on an extension that will collaboratively  allow us to create test questions on the wiki, peer review them and than export them to Moodle in GIFT format. If you or anyone else with wiki experience are interested in the project and would like be an administrator shoot me an e-mail with a link to your info. 
Thanks Isaac Wojcikwww.einstein-university.orgisaacwojcik at einstein-university.org

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:22:27 -0700
Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] Einstein University - free university/ academic social network
From: ml at creativecommons.org
To: okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org
CC: isaacwojcik at hotmail.com

Looks like a potentially great project. Cool that you're using Semantic Mediawiki!

I see in the footer of http://en.einstein-university.org/Main_Page the license used is CC-BY-NC-ND. I'd suggest changing this immediately.

Unless you're getting copyright assignment from all contributors and enabling mass collaboration through some other permission, ND may not work at all.

NC is generally suboptimal for educational resources, and specifically disrecommended for everything by OKF, which seems particularly relevant given this is their list. :-) See http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/#8-no-discrimination-against-fields-of-endeavor

The license prevents collaborating with the vast universe of other open educational projects, including Wikipedia, see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy

Probably the most obvious license for you to use would be the one that Wikipedia does, CC-BY-SA.

Mike

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Isaac Wojcik <isaacwojcik at hotmail.com> wrote:

Hello all! Just launched a new site and would love to get your input. 
Einstein University is a free online university/academic social network where students and professors from around the world can share ideas, read each others papers and collaborate on research. You can upload your photo, curriculum vitae and up to four research papers. Instead of charging students tuition the university funds itself through ad revenue and uses volunteer professors. Our goal is to create hundreds of free open college textbooks. Check us out at einstein-university.org

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