9/12/2011

Creative Commons Positions: Senior Project Manager & Senior Project Analyst

Creative Commons is hiring!  Will you please help us find the right candidates by advertising these positions through your networks, blogs, twitter, etc?

Most gratefully,

Cable

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http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/29046

Creative Commons is seeking highly motivated and organized individuals to fill two positions: Senior Project Manager and Senior Project AnalystBoth positions are full-time with full benefits. Both positions will key members of the team supporting Department of Labor TAACCCT grantees.



Ideal candidates have contributed to open source, open education, open licensing, and/or other open content projects, are proficient in required technologies, and possess at lease two years of work experience. Joining CC means getting the chance to interact with motivated staff and a brilliant international network of affiliates and community members.

Please feel free to share these jobs descriptions as far and wide as possible. We will be accepting applications on a rolling basis until we find the right candidates. Please be sure to indicate the job title you are interested in applying for in the email subject line, and send to “jobs@creativecommons.org

Application Deadline: Friday, 7 October.
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Cable Green, PhD

Director of Global Learning
(t) @cgreen  /  (b) OER
(b) power of open

9/10/2011

Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist

Thanks to Heather Joseph (SPARC) for the forward:

Cable

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Quite a title....:)

"Academic Publishers Make Murdoch Look Like a Socialist"

'Though academic libraries have been frantically cutting subscriptions to make ends meet, journals now consume 65% of their budgets.'

9/08/2011

$20,000 Open Textbook Challenge from the Saylor Foundation

You've got to respect folks who just make it happen...

Saylor Open Textbook Challenge

CC Post

The $5 Textbook

David Wiley and crew have the cost of an open textbook down to $5.35 ... including shipping and handling.

;)

Effectiveness data of students who used these open textbooks compared to schools who adopted $100+ textbooks up next.

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