Tony Bates has a new post relating the costs of an online Master’s program. From the post:
I’ve been doing some analysis recently of the costs of a fully online master’s degree program from a major research university (which for the moment will remain nameless, although this has been a very successful program, both academically and financially). I was doing this for our forthcoming book.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, online learning, sustainability
Ruth Suehle has a new post on free culture, market forces and “sharecropping.” From the post:
Assuming that complete freedom is the goal, the question becomes, when can businesses benefit from free without taking ownership of the result?
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, creative commons, Internet, openness, public domain, sustainability
Steve Carson has a new post reminding everyone that MIT OCW was not considering a paywall contrary to reports from the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, sustainability
Lawrence J Speer posted a rumor that MIT OpenCourseWare was considering charging for a paywall. The Chronicle of Higher Education debunks the rumor. David Wiley gives his reaction.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness, sustainability
Kent Anderson has a new post discussing the changing costs of open access. From the post:
The likelihood that fixed costs — editorial salaries, internal systems, and software licenses in the small scale; redesigns, content migrations, and device support in the large scale — will only increase for digital publishers is driving expenses in much the same way interest charges drive the cost of a loan. Over time, the costs add up.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, OATP, open access, sustainability
Ruth Suehle has a new post discussing marketing efforts among open source/content projects. From the post:
Marketing is typically done in a room of people who are removed from those who develop the things they’re marketing. Open marketing (not obscured marketing!) is about turning that paradigm upside-down and doing marketing as openly as development.
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Tagged ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, open marketing, openness, sustainability
Joss Winn has a new post discussing how open education can help sustainability in higher education. From the post:
The main message about sustainability that I tried to push across in the presentation is that for OER and Open Education in general to be sustainable, we need sustainable societies and a sustainable planet.
Link found via Brian Lamb’s Delicious account. That’s right, Brian, I’m watching.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness, sustainability
Jason Hoyt, Chief Scientist for the citation program Mendeley, posted several days ago affirming their support of open access. In the comments section of the post, questions arose regarding just how open Mendeley itself was. “Petermr” blogs his disatisfaction (post 1, post 2). “iPhylo” responds.
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Tagged higher education, mendeley, open content, open source, openness, sustainability
Columbia Univesity has posted a panel discussion on paying for open access on YouTube.
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Tagged higher education, OATP, open access, openness, policy, research, sustainability
David Wiley has a new post listing articles on sustainability for open educational resources that have been published by David or BYU students.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, oer, online learning, openness, sustainability
