A new book entitled “The Tower and the Cloud – Higher Education in the age of Cloud Computing” has been released in both eBook and hard copy format. The book is edited by Richard N Katz, and contains, inter alia, a chapter entitled “Cultural and orgnaizational drivers of open educational content,” written by Malcom Read. (Thanks to JISC) Snippet from the chapter:
The purpose of this essay is to consider the cultural and orgnizational issues behind the creation of open educaitonal content. In it I argue that there are many benefits to the individual, to the educational institution and to society at large from open educational content, and further, that such educational content has to be part of a wider context of open resources across the research, education, and cultural domains.
