Mary Lou Forward has a new post requesting feedback on the OpenCourseWare Consortium’s business and strategic plans. From the post:
The business plan for fiscal year 2011 is due for submission to the Board of Directors in May. We are holding an on-line discussion from March 23-April 16 to gather input from the community for the drafting of this plan.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, ocw, OCWC, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Sólveig Thorsteinsdóttir has posted a review of open access mandates in nordic countries. From the review:
There has been a rapid growth of OA mandates in the Nordic countries. Prior to 2010 there were only 3 mandates in the Nordic countries. In January 2010, 32 mandates took effect and the 33rd mandate will take
effect in 2011.
Xie Yu has posted a story on a dispute between Chinese authors and Google Book over unauthorized scanning of their work. From the post:
Zhang Hongbo, deputy director of the China Written Works Copyright Society, which is responsible for formal negotiations with Google, told China Daily the association had tried to contact Google Books but failed to get any response.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged google, Google's Settlement, policy, public domain
Jessica Palmer has a new post discussing open access to health resources. From the post:
While some journals (PloS, for example) are freely available to the public, and Congress has made moves to require access to the publications derived from publicly funded research, paywalls are still a problem.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, journal, library, Open Education, openness
Anna Batchelder has a new post on 10 ways to support open education through social media. Also posted on Curriki. From the post:
A colleague of mine recently sent me the Mashable post, “#10Ways to Support Charities Through Social Media”. As a follow-up, I thought it would be fun to create a list specific to Open Education Resources (OERs).
DGREE has posted video of Tim O’Reilly on education as an open system. The video is about 11 minutes long. Thanks to heping for the link.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Donald W. King has published an article in D-Lib magazine on author payment in open access arrangements. From the article:
…dropping 7.36 million print titles would save academic libraries $2.4 billion at $330 per title and discontinuing 6.56 million electronic subscriptions at $170 per title would save an additional $1.1 billion for a total of $3.5 billion.
Mike Linksvayer has a new post pointing out that Magnatune is changing their business model. Magnatune is a music label with its music licensed with a Creative Commons license. From Magnatune’s blog:
Why the change? Simply put: membership today accounts for 74% of our revenue. Over the past two years our album download sales have declined while the unlimited downloads memberships have grown.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged CC licenses, creative commons, open content, Open Education, openness
Paul Swain has posted a recap of the Cardiff OER event that took place on the 15th.
John Robertson has a pair of posts related to open educational resources. The first post discusses how libraries and OER relate to one another. The second post offers the idea of “OER literacies.” From the second post:
I’m suggesting that there is a skillset here that’s part of the discovery and selection process which supports Open Education in the same way that information literacy supports research.
Thanks to RSC Wales for the link.
