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University Launches Knowledge-sharing Website
Rice University, April, 2004
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After four years in development, Connexions officially launched
its portal at Rice University at
http://cnx.rice.edu/.
Unlike MIT's OpenCourseWare and other initiatives by
universities to make their own course material freely available
online, Connexions offers a single place online where any
educator in the world can both post and use knowledge for free.
Connexions adapts the open-source software concept to scholarly
content. People freely publish course curricula in Connexions'
"Content Commons," where all lessons can be used, modified or
combined with others to meet each instructor's specific needs.
At the university level, Connexions courses are already used to
teach engineering, computer science, physics and mathematics
classes at Rice, the University of Illinois, The Ohio State
University, Cambridge University and other schools.
Connexions' authors use an "open content" license developed by
Creative Commons that allows unlimited modification and
distribution, provided each author receives attribution for his
work.
Supported by Rice and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
Connexions already contains more than 1,600 educational
"modules," each equivalent to a two- to three-page lesson from a
textbook.
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