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"Open Scholarship"
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 04:45:02 -0700
________________________________________ From: Udhay Shankar N [udhay () pobox com] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:11 AM To: David Farber Subject: "Open Scholarship" Dave -- In light of the recent discussions on IP regarding textbook prices in the US, this article may be of interest. Udhay http://publius.cc/2008/06/04/melissa-hagemann-open-scholarship/ Melissa Hagemann: Open Scholarship Open Scholarship essay by Melissa Hagemann, a response to The Opening of Science and Scholarship by Peter Suber. Who controls access to educational materials in the age of the internet? Today many students are priced out of an education, not because of the cost of tuition, but because of the price of textbooks. Lessons from the open access movement, which Peter Suber has played a pivotal role in developing, are now being applied to open education. Building upon the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which first defined open access in 2002, educators, internet pioneers, and foundations launched the Cape Town Open Education Declaration in January 2008. The declaration calls for publicly funded educational materials to be made freely available over the internet, the use of open content licenses, and the collaborative production of materials. In addition, over 1,000 professors in the U.S. recently signed a statement supporting the use of free, online open source textbooks. Open educational resources (OER) are digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research. OER have the potential to improve the quality and reduce the costs of educational materials. <snip> -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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