Tom Bartlett has a new article about Marcus Boon, author of the recently published book In Praise of Copying. From the article:
“I came to recognize that many of the boundaries we have set up between activities we call ‘copying’ and those we call ‘not copying’ are false, and that, objectively, phenomena that involve copying are everywhere around us.”
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, higher education, open content, openness
A series of news items relating to open access.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, open content, openness
CommonNeed has posted a video without audio about their Plugjam platform. Thanks to Judy Baker for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Last week OEN reported on a post by David Wiley about the lack of open educational resource adoption. Stephen Downes has posted a response:
Change the model and you’ll see there’s no problem with the adoption of OERs at all.
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Tal Niv has a new post giving further thoughts on Creative Commons’ impact. From the post:
…on closer inspection of the issue you necessarily come to realize that all of these fields of contribution have some unquantifiable quality which makes metrics-identification slightly complicated.
Also, Creative Commons is looking for a software contractor.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness
George Siemens has posted slide from a talk about managing open courses.
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Nina Paley has a new post expressing frustration at people who misunderstand what the license on her movie means. From the post:
Initially I tried to explain what “ShareAlike” means, and asked “Sita” remixers to please switch to ShareAlike, per the terms of the ShareAlike license under which I released it. I felt like an ass; I don’t want to be a licensing cop. After a while, mis-identifications of the project’s license became so widespread I gave up trying to correct them. “Creative Commons” means “Non-Commercial” to most people. Fighting it is a sisyphean task.
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ISKME has issued a press release announcing that Mike Smith is joining its Board of Directors. From the press release:
Smith also has served as the program director for education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where he oversaw the development of OER, supported sweeping reforms in California public schools, and played a significant role in supporting efforts to strengthen the nation’s community colleges.
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John Willinsky has a new post about students pushing for open access at the University of British Columbia. From the post:
…they were meeting with student organizations and sitting on faculty and librarian committees, looking for ways of promoting a policy at UBC by which all of the faculty and graduate students would do their best to make copies of their published work freely available.
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Stephen Downes has placed his first post on the website Huffington Post. The post is a good summary of Downes’ viewpoint regarding education reform. From the post:
But if we focus our attention on the needs of learners, all learners, they are not served either by cutting the system to the barest of bare bones or handing of the reins over to the private sector.
Also, Lisa Guernsey on open content adoption in K-12 (via Creative Commons).
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