Round 5: Odd one out
Wikis
Which wiki is the odd one out?
Answer
Wikileaks is the odd one out.
Broadcasters
Which broadcaster is the odd one out, and why?
Answer
Al Jazeera is the odd one out because it applies a Creative Commons licence.
In early 2009, Al Jazeera launched a Creative Commons Repository, a section of its website dedicated to posting videos under the CC Attribution licence. More recently Al Jazeera launched Al Jazeera Blogs, a website featuring posts written by prominent journalists and correspondents from Al Jazeera television network, all released under a CC BY-NC-ND licence.
Governments
Which seat of government is the odd one out, and why?
Answer
The White House is the odd one out because the Obama Administration has used Creative Commons licences in a variety of ways, from licensing presidential campaign photos, releasing information on transition site Change.gov via a CC Attribution licence, to requiring that third party content posted on Whitehouse.gov be made available via CC Attribution.
Copyrights
Which of these is the odd one out, and why?
Answer
The International Intellectual Property Alliance is the odd one out because it is anti-Creative Commons and open source.
Repositories
Which of these correctly lists four repositories containing OERs?
Answer
The coprrect answer is ‘Jorum, OpenLearn, MITOpenCourseWare, MERLOT’.
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