So my Facebook friends, and my other friends, and the people in the cubicles next to me, and, well, anyone who has ever heard me speak knows that I’m not a big fan of the Blackboard learning management system. Despite having some good interactions over email with Karen Gage and the group of people [...]
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From this — The Future of Online Music: Why Closed Platforms Will Fail –
Alternatively, the disappearance of an open platform could spell the end of DRM technology altogether, at least for digital music. Since I believe strongly that the market in the end must and will be based on interoperable digital formats, if DRM is [...]
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and because it’s in Nature Precedings, I can link to it here. John Wilbanks, VP of Science Commons, argues that open access means more than keeping journal costs down, but that access to information is an essential condition for innovation and the creation of new knowledge.
He’s talking about access broadly too - talking about [...]
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After seeing versions of this headline — At Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on the Web — all day yesterday in my feeds I was actually waiting with bated breath to see what the outcome of the vote would be. Weren’t you? Okay, probably not. But some people wrote the [...]
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So from transparency and participation in peer review to openness - openness in teaching and learning.
Most of you have probably seen some mention of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. There’s a good description with some background on the initiative and its participants at Inside Higher Ed.
So what does openness mean [...]
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