[IP] "Open Scholarship"

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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.

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((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))



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