Kara Platoni has written about open textbooks in California. From the article:
Digital textbooks are starting to be accessible on cell phones, too. “Even the students who are at lower income levels have these tools,” says Dave Fontaine, an online instructor for the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Education.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Tagged K-12, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks, openness
The December 2010 SPARC Open Access newsletter is now available.
Heather Ford has a new post responding to a recent post by David Wiley regarding Creative Commons. From Ford’s post:
I have absolutely no influence over national intellectual property policy, but let me point to an example of exactly how Creative Commons preserves – and in some cases actually helps support – the status quo of copyright.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness, policy, public domain
Stian Håklev tweets about the website Learning, Freedom and the Web, which is sponsored by Mozilla Drumbeat.
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Tagged ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, open source, openness
Emily Puckett Rodgers is announcing an OER workshop on U of Michigan campus.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Stian Haklev has a new post comparing Chinese Top Level Courses with MIT. From the post:
In China, however, the transformative effect of the production process is one of the main, or perhaps the main justification for the project.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Lucas Gonze has a new post discussing why he puts his music into the public domain. From the post:
I used to use licenses with share-alike clauses like the Gnu Free Documentation License, which I like because it works to grow the public domain (by encouraging disarmament like mine only when mutual). But no such license has been adopted widely enough to satisfy my purposes.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content, Open Education, openness, public domain
The Open Book Alliance has a new post outlining an EU investigation into the Google Book Settlement. From the post:
The Commission will investigate whether Google has abused a dominant market position in online search by allegedly lowering the ranking of unpaid search results of competing services which are specialized in providing users with specific online content such as price comparisons (so-called vertical search services)…
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Tagged copy right, copyright, google, google book, Google's Settlement, openness, public domain
Deep Sea News has a new post making the case for open access. From the post:
A close friend of mine is the head science librarian for a university. His tales of dropping major journals as subscriptions rise is horrifying and all to common. Most universities are not increasing library budgets enough to meet drastic increases in journal subscriptions. Even well-funded, individual scientists can afford subscriptions to only a few journals thereby making much of the literature difficult at best to access.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, openness
Startl is announcing $25,000 for a business plan that involves open educational resources. From the announcement:
The intention is to catalyze models that increase access to and dramatically lower the cost of learning. Startl is seeking to inspire entrepreneurs to think creatively about how to incorporate open principles into their core business strategy.
Stephen Downes comments.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness, sustainability
