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From the Ted Talk by Richard Baraniuk: The birth of the open-source learning revolution

Unscramble the Blue Letters

OK, I'd like to conclude with just the last few points. So, we've built this idea of a coomnms. popele are using it. We get over 500,000 unique visitors per month, just to our particular site. MIT OpenCourseWare, which is another large open-content site, gets a similar neubmr of hits. But how do we pcreott this? How do we protect it into the future? And the first thing that people are probably thinking is quality control, right? Because we're saying that anybody can contribute things to this commons. Anybody can contribute anything. So that could be a problem.

Open Cloze

OK, I'd like to conclude with just the last few points. So, we've built this idea of a _______. ______ are using it. We get over 500,000 unique visitors per month, just to our particular site. MIT OpenCourseWare, which is another large open-content site, gets a similar ______ of hits. But how do we _______ this? How do we protect it into the future? And the first thing that people are probably thinking is quality control, right? Because we're saying that anybody can contribute things to this commons. Anybody can contribute anything. So that could be a problem.

Solution

  1. commons
  2. people
  3. protect
  4. number

Original Text

OK, I'd like to conclude with just the last few points. So, we've built this idea of a commons. People are using it. We get over 500,000 unique visitors per month, just to our particular site. MIT OpenCourseWare, which is another large open-content site, gets a similar number of hits. But how do we protect this? How do we protect it into the future? And the first thing that people are probably thinking is quality control, right? Because we're saying that anybody can contribute things to this commons. Anybody can contribute anything. So that could be a problem.

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