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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Digital Imaging
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OERs Increase Access, Drop Book Expenses
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May 7, 2013
Tacoma Community College and other schools are finding that use of open educational resources (OER) in couses is saving students financially. Tac…
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Higher Education in the Ultra-Connected Age
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April 25, 2013
New forms of scholarship, new educational pathways , and new interconnections and dependencies characterize the digitally rich landscape of higher education today. We are living and workin…
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Up and Away: Open Access in Portugal
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May 6, 2013
Portugal stands out among nations that have embraced open access to scholarly communication because of its early adoption of institutional policies , creation of a network of reposito…
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The PressForward Project and Scholarly Communication on the Open Web
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February 21, 2013
A healthy ecosystem for scholarly communication requires a continuum from independently distributed work to postpublication peer review. With funding from the Sloan Foundation, the Roy Rosenzwe…
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Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content
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January 30, 2013
This UK report, commissioned by the Strategic Content Alliance and undertaken by Ithaka S+R, "Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content", tells of how …
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Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Education, and Why We Should Care
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February 26, 2013
Key Takeaways Open educational resources made a dramatic appearance with the 2002 debut of MIT's Open Courseware initiative. In the roughly 10 years since, OERs hav…
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The Cost and Quality of Online Open Textbooks: Perceptions of Community College Faculty and Students
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February 4, 2013
Proponents of open educational resources (OER) claim that significant cost savings are possible when open textbooks displace traditional textbooks in the college classroom. We investigated st…
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PeerJ: An Open-Access Experiment
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November 1, 2012
Peter Binfield is Co-founder and Publisher of PeerJ. He has held positions at the Institute of Physics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer, SAGE, and the Public Library of Science (PLO…
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E-Content: Opportunity and Risk
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September 5, 2012
Shel Waggener is Senior Vice President of Internet2. The debate is over: students are asking for digital now, this semester. It isn't as if we didn't know the change was coming.…
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Teaching in an Age of Plenty
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November 9, 2012
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012
The practice and profession of teaching developed in the presence of a great scarcity of knowledge. Ubiquitous information and ever more powerful search and knowledge engines have changed the pro…

















