Michael Hiltzik is reporting on the University of California system’s fight against the Nature Publishing Group. From the post:
“Why are we paying to read the results of our own research?” asks Patrick O. Brown, a biochemist at Stanford’s School of Medicine.
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Tagged commons, higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, open content, research
Stephen Downes has a new post on the World eBook Fair, an aggregation site for books, some of which are open. From Downes’ post:
It’s free (and apparently all-you-can-eat) for a month, $8.95 for the rest of the year. As I said, far from perfect. But, you know, these rates approach what it would cost me to store what I would want to read from the library on my own hard drive at home.
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Tagged e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, openness
Neeru Khosla will be presenting at a webinar on open textbooks. Khosla is Founder of CK12 Foundation.
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Tagged e-learning, K-12, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, open textbook, open textbooks
Michelle Thorne has a new post reviewing the success of Creative Commons’ Catalyst Grant Campaign. Fromt he post:
Last week our month-long Catalyst Grant campaign drew to a close with over 130 project applications and nearly $50,000 raised to make those ideas a reality.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, Open Education, openness
David W. Lewis has a new article on what can be done to lower the cost of textbooks. From the article:
If even a fraction of the money spent on textbooks by students could be directly invested by colleges for textbook development, better and cheaper content could be developed and delivered.
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Tagged commons, higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Karen Fasimpaur has a new post introducing her “media sets.” From the post:
As a part of a recent project, I’ve started putting together “media sets” — bundled collections of photos, maps, diagrams, videos, etc. on very specific topics for teachers and students to use.
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Tagged e-learning, K-12, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Ingrid Koehler has a new post on value of open data. From the post:
Open data is a non-divisible and inexhaustible resource.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content, openness
Britt Watwood has a new post giving his take on the book DIY U. From the post:
Anya seems to equate success with salary, and therefore writes off the potential of higher education to contribute to the democratization of society (though she does lament a bit about the need for such).
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Curriki has posted a list of open educational resource search engines. Thanks to Kim So for the link.
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Jomo Thompson has a new post addressing whether Creative Commons is good for artists. From the post:
No license is perfect for all situations, and that is true for the CC licenses.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content, openness
