Julie Bort has a new post on open source as socialism at its best. From the post:
Because of the power of “free” open source has forced closed, traditional commercial entities into not only offering products for no cost, but in offering really good, useful services for ‘free” to users.
The UNESCO Chair in e-learning has posted a comic explaining Creative Commons. Thanks to Jordi Cornet for the link.
Dr. William Gunn has a new post announcing a contest to build an app that for Mendeley’s database. From the post:
We at Mendeley have now built the world’s largest open research catalog, containing over 70 million documents. This is no small feat, considering we’ve only been at it for about 2 years, and we couldn’t have done it without you (nearly a million of you!).
Note: This article has been changed to reflect comments made below.
Glyn Moody has a new post on the changing mission of Mozilla. From the post:
Indeed, it’s becoming clear that Web apps lie at the heart of the strategy for Mozilla.
Richard Poynder has a new post on the state of open access and PLoS ONE. From the post:
Certainly PLoS ONE has proved controversial. This became evident to me last year, when a researcher drew my attention to a row that had erupted over a paper the journal had published on “wind setdown”.
Mike Caulfield has a new post regarding open educational resources, sharing, reuse and frameworks. From the post:
As Open Education has moved into the HE vernacular, I repeatedly see people laboring over the problem of production, reuse, and, at the edges, sustainability. Again, I hate to belabor this point, but history says if you are looking for significant impact you are working the wrong end of the problem.
David Wiley responds.
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Several articles OEN has run discusses efforts of student Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs). A new article by Mariel Kennedy provides an overview. From the article:
…self-described as “a national network of non-profit, non-partisan student advocacy groups — respond to the high and rising costs of textbooks with the creation of the Make Textbooks Affordable Junior Advocate Program.
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Yesterday OEN noted that tweets commemorating 10 years of OpenCourseWare. Steve Carson has a new post explaining more. From the post:
To manage scope, this mostly reflects institutional efforts, but this is not meant to imply that open sharing of educational materials is limited to the events on this list, nor that open educational sharing began with MIT’s efforts.
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Prash’s Blog has a new post on the “have” and “havenots” of science and how open access might level the field:
Oftentimes, it is observed that the laboratories with good funding tend to publish good research articles in contrast to mediocre publications by the ones who have limited or no funding. I have an intuition that publishing through open access would bridge these two things.
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Cable Green has a new post noting that the SLOAN conference has added an OER track. From the post:
I’m going to keynote on November 18th 9:40am (local time)… and will talk about OER, open licensing policies and ensuring publicly funded educational materials are freely and openly available to the public that paid for them.
Thanks to InTech for the link.
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