Rory Cellan-Jones has a new post on National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth efforts to digitize works without Google. From the post:
“The people of Wales own this collection, they have paid to build it up over the years, why should it just be handed to Google?”
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Tagged e-learning, library, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Mike Cassidy has posted an article on using Linux in K-12 California schools. From the post:
Robert Litt, an Oakland public school teacher, who runs a technology lab with 30 computers, took the leap about three years ago. His cost: $0. He scrounged recycled computers — computers people were throwing away — and brought them to life with Linux. Without Linux, he says, there would be no lab.
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Tagged e-learning, Internet, K-12, online learning, open content, open source, openness
Louise Egan has a new post announcing the availability of presentations from a recent OER event at the University of Ulster.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education
Jennifer Howard is reporting that the U. of California is refusing to pay the Nature Publishing Group increased fees for journal access. From the post:
The pressure does not stop there. The letter said that faculty would also organize “a systemwide boycott” of Nature’s journals if the publisher does not relent. The voluntary boycott would “strongly encourage” researchers not to contribute papers to those journals or review manuscripts for them.
Also covered by Arstechnica.
Noam Cohen has a new post on The British Museum working with Wikipedia. From the article:
About 40 Wikipedia contributors in the London area spent Friday with a “backstage pass” to the museum, meeting with curators and taking photographs of the collection. And in a curious reversal in status, curators were invited to review Wikipedia’s treatment of the museum’s collection and make a case that important pieces were missing or given short shrift.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, openness, Wikipedia
Richard Poynder has a new post on the future of academic journal publisher Reed Elsevier. From the post:
That they built a business model predicated on annual revenue increases supported by the steady launch of new titles to justify the increases.
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Tagged Internet, journal, library, OATP, open access, Open Education, openness
Leigh Blackall has a new post wondering how openness might support existing systems and power structures. From the post:
What I’m wondering about is, to what degree is openness part of a political ideology and consequence we are not so conscious of? We know and love the rhetoric we use every day, like sharing, education for all, accessibility, reusability, creative commons and all that, but how much is the openness movement originating out of, or becoming part of a larger economic agenda?
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, open content, Open Education, openness, policy
Tom Caswell notes that the 2nd round of Talis Incubator funding is approaching.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness, sustainability
Peter Suber has posted a list of unanimous open access votes at various institutions.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, openness
DeLisa Alexander has a new post on the “open source way” and what can be accomplished by sharing. From the post:
The idea of enforcing sharing of code with copyright law completely the opposite of what I had been doing as a technology lawyer to that point. I had drafted and negotiated many proprietary licenses built on keeping source code secret and prohibiting sharing to protect IP.
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, open content, open source, openness
