10/24/2010
Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS)
Are you interested in free and open access to the world’s peer reviewed academic journals for your students, faculty and staff?
So is SPARC … a project of the Association of Research Libraries.
Check out:
· Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS) -- a “one stop shop” for learning about Open Access.
· Alliance for Taxpayer Access – site for Open Access advocacy work.
First All-Digital Science Textbook Will Be Free
This is what’s possible when we’re willing to build highest quality educational materials… and make them free to the world’s learners.
No, it’s not completed yet. Yes, it’s expensive to build… but $10M is cheap when you consider the millions of people who will benefit from this resource.
10/23/2010
10/17/2010
International Open Access Week
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10/03/2010
How Open Textbooks are the Path to Textbook Affordability
On the heels of a new federal law on textbook affordability, the Student PIRGs today released a report tagging rentals, e-books and e-readers as short-term remedies, and hailing open textbooks as the next step to rein in runaway costs.
Already, more than 1,300 professors across the country are using open textbooks - which are free online, affordable in print and openly licensed - saving students 80% on average according to the new report. With textbook prices rising more than four times the rate of inflation, the Student PIRGs call on publishers, colleges and government to support the creation of more open textbooks.
Note: Washington Community and Technical College’s “Open Course Library” project is mentioned on the top of page 17.
10/02/2010
Open Access Week 2010
The OER Foundation has scheduled a number of free webinars to promote the adoption and implementation of open access resources to support teaching, learning and research in education as our New Zealand contribution to the global activities of Open Access Week 2010.
As you know, the Horizon Report has highlighted open content as a major technology to watch on the near term horizon. Open content has the potential to transform existing business models in tertiary education and this is a unique opportunity for us to collectively contemplate what open content may mean for the community college sector around the world.
On the occasion of Open Access Week 2010, the OER Foundation invites all colleagues working in the community college sector to join our open discussions as the vocational education sector prepares for these exciting futures. Please circulate this invitation among leaders, managers and staff at your institutions. There are two sessions which I think will be of particular interest to college members of CCCOER. We will be interviewing two senior executives at the Polytechnic reflecting on OER strategy and our experiences with adopting open intellectual property policy at a Community College. Moreover, the time zones are accessible for folk on the west coast.
See: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Access_Week_2010
Attendance is free -- and interested participants can register for an email reminder of the event.
We believe that working together we can achieve far more than working alone.
Cheers
Wayne
Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D.
Director OER Foundation
Director, International Centre for Open Education,
Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.
Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator
As you know, the Horizon Report has highlighted open content as a major technology to watch on the near term horizon. Open content has the potential to transform existing business models in tertiary education and this is a unique opportunity for us to collectively contemplate what open content may mean for the community college sector around the world.
On the occasion of Open Access Week 2010, the OER Foundation invites all colleagues working in the community college sector to join our open discussions as the vocational education sector prepares for these exciting futures. Please circulate this invitation among leaders, managers and staff at your institutions. There are two sessions which I think will be of particular interest to college members of CCCOER. We will be interviewing two senior executives at the Polytechnic reflecting on OER strategy and our experiences with adopting open intellectual property policy at a Community College. Moreover, the time zones are accessible for folk on the west coast.
See: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Access_Week_2010
Attendance is free -- and interested participants can register for an email reminder of the event.
We believe that working together we can achieve far more than working alone.
Cheers
Wayne
Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D.
Director OER Foundation
Director, International Centre for Open Education,
Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.
Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator
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