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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Feb 22, 2017


The Copyright Lobby’s IIPA Report: Fake News About the
State of Canadian Copyright
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Michael Geist writes about this year's annual
misrepresentation of the state of copy protection and media
in Canada by the the International Intellectual Property
Alliance (IIPA), a lobby group that represents the major
lobbying associations for music, movie, software, and book
publishing in the United States. In particular, he focuses
on three areas:

The state of Canadian Piracy, which the IIPA reports as
rising, when in fact the Business Software Alliance’s
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last showed Canada at its lowest software piracy rate
ever 
The notice-and-notice system, which the IIPA says is not
receiving full compliance from ISPs, and which hurts
licensed services, when in pact there is nearly full
compliance by ISPs, and licensed services are earning
strong returns in Canada
Fair dealing, which the IIPA has attacked on several
grounds, but which consistent with fair dealing regimes
around the world, and are more stringent than many,
including fair use in the United States

As Canada routinely states every year, "Canada does not
recognize the 301 watch list process. It basically lacks
reliable and objective analysis. It’s driven entirely
by U.S. industry."
 
 
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Kaltura Launches Lecture Capture Solution
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This is just something I want to keep handy for when I talk
to people who already have a Kaltura system running. It
seems like a pretty easy way to make a lot of learning
resources. Or course the quality and value might vary, but
creating something is infinitely better than creating
nothing.
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The Challenge of Non-Disposable Assignments
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Non-disposable Assignments (NDAs, though he agrees a better
acronym is needed) are assignments that ase seen by more
than just the student and the person grading them. They can
be thought of as open educational resources, but the status
as OERs connotes qualities that may not be there. The
challenge of NDAs is to create these assignments in such a
way that they are actually non-disposable, and not just
disposable assignments published in an open way. "It takes
a lot of effort to move past the first impulse of writing
ones that sound like they are answering a question or a
series of questions. Those have an odor of
'disposable-ness'."
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Anthony Johnson Brings 'Johnsonville' to Life
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My grade 8 class created a model society. I was one of the
two banks in our community. It was too much work, I didn't
clear the cheques, and the town economy collapsed. But the
idea was sound in principle. Later, as part of my MuniMall
project, I created something called MuniVille, which again
could be a simulated environment for town managers and
elected officials. Once again, my ambition far exceeded my
abilities, though fortunately no economies collapsed (and
the MuniMall community I developed ran for the next ten
years). So I like the concept of Johnsonville as described
in this article and wish founder Anthony Johnson the best
in his "world where each student must find a job, pay the
bills, pay mortgage and taxes, and learn by doing
projects."
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Looking (again) to Domain of One’s Own
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it's good to see a look at a project some time after it has
launched and some time after it has (largely) passed into
new hands and new ownership. Such is the case with this
post on Domain of One's Own. "As faculty have continued to
integrate DoOO into their classes, students have continued
to engage with the project in a variety of ways." Fer what
it's worth, I've been working recently on properly
virtualizing gRSShopper - basically setting it up in a
complete self-sustaining box that can be easily ported to
new environments. I have applications like Domain of One's
Own in mind (not that I've told them any of this).
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25 Years Without a Raise
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Adjunct instructors at Youngstown State University threw
themselves a party this week to mark 25 years without a pay
increase. "It’s 'fair to say that our president and
provost recognize that that's a problem and, while we are
facing some difficult budget challenges like most in higher
ed, [we’re] committed to trying to rectify that
situation," said university spokesperson Ron Cole. It's
hard to see how you could recognize something as a problem
and do nothing about it for 25 years. A more honest
statement would probably say something about how
embarrassed they are by this situation and how much they
wish it hadn't attracted international attention. Image:
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