Larry Cooperman

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My interests are #openeducation, #oer, #edtech, #highered, and #onlinelearning. I am a past president of Open Education Global. I retired from UC Irvine where I was the Associate Dean for Open Education. I served six years on the board of directors of the African Virtual University.
Also, I’m a struggling Golden State #Warriors fan. 
#fedi22 (for discovery purposes only).
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish (native), Spanish (fluent), French, Portuguese
Larry CoopermanJul 27, 2025
A hero of the #commons, #tomlehrer died today at the age of 97. While many of us over a certain age will remember him for his biting #politicalsatire, he should also be remembered for releasing all of his work into the #publicdomain (https://tomlehrersongs.com/disclaimer/). Responding to rumors in 1981 that he had died, he said, "I was hoping the rumors would cut down on the junk mail." Something we can all look forward to.
Disclaimer

Tom Lehrer Songs
Larry CoopermanJan 25, 2025
Molly WhiteJan 25, 2025

What could contribute more to government efficiency than securing lucrative contracts for your crypto donors to implement inefficient technology that is uniquely suited to solving problems you don’t have?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-25/musk-exploring-blockchain-use-in-us-government-efficiency-effort

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Musk Exploring Blockchain Use in US Government Efficiency Effort

Elon Musk has initiated conversations about using blockchain technology at the new Department of Government Efficiency, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. It’s the latest sign of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the digital asset industry.

Bloomberg
Larry CoopermanDec 11, 2024
Tel AmielNov 20, 2024
Technofideism - exaggerating the rate at which new technologies would be developed or the degree to which they would improve our lives.
- Oreskes, Naomi
Larry CoopermanDec 5, 2024
Eugen RochkoDec 4, 2024
@mosseri just announced that #Threads users can finally follow fediverse accounts. Which means you can now reach 200M people from your Mastodon account without ever using Threads yourself. True decentralization happens on the fediverse!
Larry CoopermanOct 14, 2024
Congratulations to Tanja Urbancic, former dean of management and engineering at the University of Nova Gorica, for receiving the lifetime achievement award in higher education from the Ministry of Eeducation of the Republic of Slovenia. She is a founder of two important #oer programs, #OE4BW and the first accredited degree program in OER Leadership.
Larry CoopermanSep 17, 2024
Tel AmielSep 4, 2024

Anyone else thinks "transformative agreements" by big publishers aren't really that transformative? Seems like another way we 'bend' to their will and guarantee their comfortable oligopoly and survival.

#openaccess #oa #oer

Larry CoopermanMar 12, 2023
Bizarrely, I asked #ChatGPT to calculate how many days between two arbitrary dates. It was #OffByOne and when I challenged it, said, "I apologize for the mistake in my previous response. To calculate the number of days between today (March 10, 2023) and June 9, 2023, we can subtract the two dates. June 9, 2023 - March 10, 2023 = 91 days Therefore, there are 91 days between today and June 9, 2023.
See attached screenshot." Can't make this up. See the screenshot for the full exchange.
Larry CoopermanMar 8, 2023
Took advantage of #OEweek23 to (re)join #oeglobal as an individual member. You should, too! Support free-to-use, modify-without-having-to-seek-permission-first #oer #cc educational materials.
Larry CoopermanFeb 9, 2023

The #copyright implications of #ChatGPT and other AI are pretty interesting. In the US, the Copyright Office won't register a copyright for purely AI-generated content (see https://bit.ly/3JXLyWW), but will for works that adapt and modify AI-generated content: https://petapixel.com/2022/09/27/ai-generated-artwork-is-copyrighted-for-the-first-time/.

Just as with #OER and #creativecommons licenses, the notions of attribution and delineating modifications needs to filter out into general copyright law when human vs. machine creation of content is at issue.

U.S. Copyright Office tells Judge that AI Artwork isn't Protectable

A computer scientist is trying to get his AI machine named as author.

PetaPixel
Larry CoopermanDec 17, 2022

What are the #copyright and #licensing and #oer implications for #chatgpt. See the below (https://openai.com/api/policies/sharing-publication/#content-co-authored-with-the-openai-api-policy):

“Here is some stock language you may use to describe your creative process, provided it is accurate:
‘The author generated this text in part with GPT-3, OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model. Upon generating draft language, the author reviewed, edited, and revised the language to their own liking and takes ultimate responsibility for the content of this publication.’”

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