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MIT OpenCourseWare: Teaching the world for free
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| By any measure, MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative, which seeks to "open source"
| education by making course ware from premier institutions available online to
| all for free, is a success.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10199836-16.html
U. of Manitoba Researchers Publish Open-Source Handbook on Educational
Technology
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| Technology is changing the way students learn. Is it changing the way
| colleges teach?
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| Not enough, says George Siemens, associate director of research and
| development at the University of Manitoba’s Learning Technologies Centre.
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| While colleges and universities have been “fairly aggressive” in adapting
| their curricula to the changing world, Mr. Siemens told The Chronicle, “What
| we haven’t done very well in the last few decades is altering our pedagogy.”
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http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3671/u-of-manitoba-researchers-publish-open-source-handbook-on-educational-technology
Foster plan for open source education
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| The bill, H.R. 1164, is now before the House Education and Labor Committee,
| chaired by California Democrat George Miller. Its full name is The Learning
| Opportunities with Creation of Open Source Textbooks Act of 2009.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3741
Recent:
John Conyers and Open Access
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| The "open access movement" was born to create an alternative to this. Even if
| restrictive copyright was a necessary evil in the days of dead-tree-based
| publishing, it was still an evil. High costs restrict access. The business
| model of the scientist is to spread his or her knowledge as widely as
| possible. Open access journals, such as, for example, those created by the
| Public Library of Science, have adopted a different publishing model, to
| guarantee that all all research is freely accessible online (under the freest
| Creative Commons license) immediately, to anyone around the world. This
| guarantee of access, however, is not purchased by any compromise in academic
| standards. There is still a peer-review process. There is still even a
| paper-based publication.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/03/john_conyers_and_open_access.html
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