Tal Niv has a new post discussing the challenges of measuring Creative Commons’ impact. From the post:
it is not enough to understand how to evaluate the contribution of its target fields to welfare, but it must also understand its incremental contribution to the welfare enhancing capacity of those fields.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness
John Morgan has a new post about open learning models and asserts that they are on the way to colliding with traditional models. From the post:
Open learning and new technology are about to smash the structure of the modern university – and higher education is too distracted by its funding problems to notice.
Thanks to Hot in Education for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, online learning, open learning, openness
Dorothea Salo has a new post asking whether pointing out the irony of discussing open education in closed journals is becoming useless. From the post:
Here’s the thing, though. If we’re going to maximize the reach of our message, we’re going to have to put up with that particular irony.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open content, openness
Last week OEN reported on an OER capacity forum. cel145 and Pamela McLean both have posts responding to the discussion so far.
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Tagged commons, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Glyn Moody has a new post discussing copyright infringement as theft. From the post:
Not allowing people to make personal copies and share them for non-commercial use is, I believe, exactly like not allowing people to sell their books second-hand, or to give them away…
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, open content, open source, openness
Ian Weller has a new post about academics adopting the notion of “release early, release often.” From the post:
The open source release cycle is “release early, release often”—even though your goals are known, milestones are often unknown, and it’s possible that even the end result is unknown.
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Tagged higher education, oer, open content, open source, openness
Julia Ault tweets about the availability of the Jorum Roadmap September 2011.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
A pair of articles (one from BusinessWeek, the other from Campus Progress) highlight companies or groups who are targeting textbook costs. Both articles highlight the publisher Flat World Knowledge. From BusinessWeek:
The backlash against rising prices is giving a boost to the startups. Entering freshmen this year will pay 32 percent more for textbooks than the class of 2010 did four years ago, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Note: David Wiley, who is editor of this blog, is also Chief Officer of Openness at Flat World Knowledge.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks
Janet Dyson has posted a document about OER readiness in Africa.
Steve Carson is announcing a partnership between MIT OCW and OpenStudy. From the post:
OCW has teamed up with OpenStudy, an educational collaboration utility, to help users connect and study together. Starting last month, a pilot of OpenStudy groups in association with three OCW courses has attracted thousands of OCW visitors.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
