Nestled amongst Boing Boing’s links to boutique sex shops and life-size japanese geriatric medical dolls (hey, watch this site appear in a google listing for those search terms!) was a mention of the Open University’s first Creative Commons course. I think there’s just this course and it’s a defunct one, but it’s based around Lessig’s idea and titled ” Technology and the Future of Ideas”.
Not quite on the scale of MIT’s Open Courseware, but pretty interesting, as the use of the Creative Common’s licence, gives other educators the opportunity to freely re-use the content – something I don’t think the MIT does.
Speaking of Creative Commons, I just got the first newsletter from the BBC’s Creative Archive – the beeb’s attempt at, well, a creative archive. It’s usage is based heavily (and advised by) Lessig and the Creative Commons guys.
Zero content to play with yet, but I think this is due very shortly. The first chunk of archive footage will be wildlife programs, I read somewhere because “animals don’t assert ownership rights…” Brilliant – “…yeah, I’m not happy with that second gazelle attack sequence, I don’t think i’ll be signing the release…”