OLDaily, by Stephen Downes   November 30, 2010  Got a business
plan for Open Educational Resources? John Moravec, Education
Futures, November 30, 2010.  As John Moravec reports, "Startl
has an­nounced a $25,000 com­pe­ti­tion, so­lic­it­ing busi­ness
plans for best uses of Open Ed­u­ca­tional Re­sources." I really
don't like competitions like this, as they're designed to push
people toward a certain perspective of open educational
resources. Here's my "business plan" - I make stuff, I post it
online. Why isn't that a good enough business plan? Market
demand? Sustainability? All irrelevant - it's just something I
do in the course of my other activities - my job is what
sustains me, my readers (both of them) are my market. Why should
it be any other way? Any 'successful' business plan will have as
its core feature the assertion that this approach is
fundamentally wrong - and it is that core assertion that I
refudiate.  [Link] [Comment] [Tweet]  Notes: Bishop, J., (2007)
D'Arcy Norman, D'Arcy Norman dot net, Nov