The CAS-IP blog has a new post expressing hope that the new Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) will push for open access. From the post:
The timing is perfect. If the new CGIAR can embrace Open Access as a policy we can start to get somewhere.
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Tagged journal, library, OATP, open access, open content, openness
Simon Thomson posted an OER Staff Guide back in May, but some readers may be unaware of it.
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Various authors have posted on WikiEducator their thoughts about open educational resource quality. From one post:
As a general rule, I would say that I do not have any major concerns about the quality of educational resources using the open authoring approach, as long as the community involved in the development of the resources is active and involved. As instructors and researchers, we should all be comfortable with collaboration in our work, and the development of learning materials seems like one area in which an open collaborative approach will improve quality of resources.
Thanks to Daniel Mietchen for the link.
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Mike Caulfield has a new post on Flattr, a micropayment service. From the post:
Here’s the neat part though — hopefully the vast middle is a bunch of people that are both consumers and producers, and those that write smaller blogs use their Flattr to support those that write the bigger blogs, or those that write the music they listen to while writing their blogs, or those making OER, etc., etc.
Tanika Cooper recaps recent textbook legislation and includes quotes from professors on textbook affordability. From the post:
White did not have to worry about new editions because he could simply adopt the new version from online. Through the publisher he used, which operates under the creative common license, White customized textbooks for his classes.
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Cameron Parkins notes a post by Joi Ito on license proliferation. From Ito’s post:
Creative Commons is not just a single license “option”. We are a global conversation among lawyers, judges, academics, users and companies in over a hundred countries with extremely rigorous compatible license ports in more than 50 jurisdictions.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content, openness
Richard Hall has a new post on open education as a critique. From the post:
Open education is a critique of our formal, institutionalised systems of education. Or it should be. It should help us to critique what we do as educators in a formal system and why. It reflects back to us how our work enables the people who experience our formal systems, to exist, to innovate, to succeed, to be(come).
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Last week OEN reported that ASCAP declined a challenge to debate Larry Lessig over recently made remarks by ASCAP. Mike Linksvayer has a new post responding on ASCAP’s decision not to debate:
Every bit of this is incorrect. To the extent there is a single movement the ASCAP president is attempting to criticize, it would be called the free culture movement. Presumably the ASCAP president thinks “copyleft” sounds more threatening than “free culture”.
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Last week OEN reported on a post regarding the option to keep a blog private. Stephen Downes responds. D’Arcy Norman responds to Stephen’s response. From Norman’s response:
What I was trying to point out is that these forms of performance aren’t public, and are not permanently archived by third parties. They are also not primarily exercises in content production.
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The British Library has collected thoughts on whether copyright is a help or hindrance.
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