JISC has a new podcast on building the case for an open access policy. From the post:
A new report launched today (25 February 2010) shows how universities can work out how much they could save on their profit and loss accounts as well as increasing their contribution to UK plc when they share their research papers through Open Access.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, OATP.new, open content
Scott Leslie has a new post summarizing patterns he’s noticed in recommended open textbooks. Leslie also has a follow-up post asking which subject should have open textbooks. From the second post:
In conversation with some esteemed peers this week, though, it became clear that there are multiple ways to approach this issue, not just ‘what are the best open textbooks’ but also ‘in which courses would a quality open textbook have the biggest impact?’
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Tagged higher education, oer, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks, openness
Joseph Thibault has a new post suggesting that Moodle users need to do more to support open content. From the post:
The Moodle community should be taking steps to open the content now; on current sites, with current versions with the content available. A library of available (and organized) content, ready to view, ready to download and use would be a boon to educators world wide.
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Tagged ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, open source, openness
David Wiley has a new post noting that Bobbi Kurshan is leaving Curriki as Executive Director. From the post:
Perhaps it’s not a big deal to see folks moving on, but it seems somehow significant to me. Inasmuch as the field continues to live and thrive through these leadership changes, we demonstrate that open education is not a radical separatist group led by a few charismatic individuals. Instead we demonstrate that open education is stable, steady, on-going effort to increase access to appropriate, high-quality educational opportunity to everyone worldwide.
Liam Green-Hughes has a new post on how to view Open University courses on your television. From the post:
Opportunities are even emerging to experiment with shifting OERs from the laptop to the living room, and it is not as difficult to get involved as you might think.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education
Alison Flood is reporting that thousands of authors are opting out of the Google Book Settlement. From the article:
“My feelings were, in the end, that I doubted I would lose out by opting out, whereas I might do by opting in. Also there was the principle that copyright is important,” said novelist Marika Cobbold, author of books including Guppies for Tea and Shooting Butterflies
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Tagged commons, copy right, creative commons, fair use, google, Google's Settlement, policy, public domain
The UCSF Library has a short post on journal publisher Springer and their Open Choice program. From the post:
Since 2009, UCSF authors have been able to make articles they publish in over 2,000 Springer journals freely available to researchers throughout the world, without payment of any author fees.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, OATP.new, policy
Jim Groom has a new blog post about the Instructional Technology Council 2010. More specifically, Groom discusses Jared Stein and Marc Hugentobler’s keynote about Blackboard and openness in higher education. From the post:
The conference started out with an opening session by Jared Stein and Marc Hugentobler titled “Late Night Learning LIVE!” (link to full presentation on Mediasite here). The amount of time, energy, and work that went into this presentation is belied by the the brilliance with which it was pulled off, this presentation was superb.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Thom Holwerda has a new post on the International Intellectual Property Alliance, a lobbyist group that is arguing that countries that support open source be placed on a watchlist. From the post:
The governments of the countries the IIPA wants to add [to the watchlist] have one thing in common: they’ve used or are encouraging the adoption of Free and open source software, which, according to the IIPA, “weakens the software industry” and “fails to build respect for intellectual property rights”.
