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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. A few examples include: Automattic provides a broad range of for-fee, value-added services around the open source WordPress software, including WordPress.com (hosting), WordPress.com VIP (hosting), Akismet (anti-spam), Jetpack (security), and many others.

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So you want to create an online class independent of a school

Bryan Alexander

Sakai – this academic LMS also appears in at least one group’s paid hosting options. WordPress – the powerful and popular web authoring tool upon which this blog post was crafted can also be a tool for class creation, although there’s more to the process than dragging and dropping.

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Some Lessons Learned Supporting OER Adoption

Iterating Toward Openness

We manually rebuilt each course half a dozen times or more, in Blackboard, Sakai, Canvas, and other systems. Say, as a purely hypothetical example, that a member of a faculty team accidentally included a copyrighted resource in a collection of OER. Or, if you prefer an example closer to home, Reclaim Hosting.

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