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EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 44, Number 1, January/February 2009

The Case of the Textbook: Open or Closed?

 

EDUCAUSE Values: Openness

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The Case of the Textbook: Open or Closed?
As the price of college/university textbooks continues to rise, new electronic models and various “open” options are being proposed from all sides: by publishers, by students, and by authors and institutions.

Publishers

Book Industry Study Group: “Book Industry Trends: College,” by Stephanie Oda and Glenn Sanislo

Students

Student PIRGs: “Course Correction: Executive Summary,” by Nicole Allen

Authors & Institutions

“The Truly Free Textbook,” by Rob Beezer
“Some Thoughts on Free Textbooks,” by Robert Stewart
“John Gallaugher: Online Textbooks Deliver Timely, Real-World Content,” by Kim Seidel
“It Takes a Consortium to Support Open Textbooks,” by Judy Baker, CCCOER
“Education in the Digital Age,” by Joel Thierstein, Connexions
Managing the Platform:
Higher Education and the Logic of Wikinomics
David J. Staley
How might the logic of Web 2.0, the logic of commons-based peer production, and the logic of platform management transform the idea of the university and the very activities—teaching and learning, research, and publishing—that lie at the heart of this enterprise?
The Multi-Dimensional Nature
of Emergency Communications Management
E. Michael Staman, Mark Katsouros, and Richard Hach
With the availability of a rich variety of IT solutions for emergency preparedness, colleges and universities need to leverage these technologies to benefit emergency notification services, leading to strategic implications for campus emergency communications management policies.

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On the Web
Leadership
On Ensuring That Intellectual Property Public Policy Promotes Progress
Peter McPherson
E-Content
Complexity and Scale in Audio Archives
Jerry Goldman and Andrew Gruen
PodcastIT
Future Cyberinfrastructure
George B. Adams III
New Horizons
The NetGens 2.0: Clouds on the Horizon
Malcolm Brown
policy@edu
Internet Policy in a Time of Economic Uncertainty
Tracy Mitrano
Viewpoints
Open Source: Narrowing the Divides between Education, Business, and Community
Jim Whitehurst
Homepage
Making Uncommon Common
Diana G. Oblinger
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