Richard Baraniuk: The birth of the open-source learning revolution

The video discusses the transformation of the music industry through digitization and applies similar concepts to educational publishing. It highlights the challenges in traditional publishing and envisions a global, open-access knowledge ecosystem. The Connexions project at Rice University is introduced as a platform for creating, sharing, and customizing educational content. The video emphasizes the importance of technology, like XML, and intellectual property frameworks, such as Creative Commons, in enabling this ecosystem. It concludes with a call to action for contributing to open content projects.

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