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Profit off of Open Source, Or at least pay the Bills I have been struggling with Stephen Downes views of Open Source and how it should be the wave of the future to ensure the most effective learning environment possible. My ... user and learner experience using open source (and not locked behind a LMS or username/password) while still enabling my ... paying for) and implement it in the corporate training world. There appeared to be limited use of this “open source ... ) which largely advocated a similar open source concept (very disruptive!) which I thought would work in the public ...

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