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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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Dramatically Bringing Down the Cost of Education with OER: How Open Education Resources Unlock the Door to Free Learning
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February 7, 2012
This issue brief from the Center for American Progress and EDUCAUSE seeks to provide a substantive understanding of OER and at the same time inform the emerging public debate over their use in p…
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Defining “Noncommercial”: A Study of How the Online Population Understands “Noncommercial Use”
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September 18, 2009
This report details the results of a research study launched in September 2008 to explore differences between commercial and noncommercial uses of content found online, as those uses are understo…
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Textbooks for the Disabled
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August 28, 2009
Publishers open an online system designed to replace the tedious, costly and lawsuit-ridden process of supplying disabled students with course materials. …
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Split Over Open Access
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June 4, 2009
10 university press directors back requirements for free online versions of federally sponsored research -- even as presses' association fights to end such a requirement. …
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Why Lakoff still matters: Framing the debate on copyright law and digital publishing
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June 1, 2009
In 2004, linguist and cognitive scientist George Lakoff popularized the idea of using metaphors and “frames” to promote progressive political issues. Although his theories have since been cri…
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Open KSA
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May 4, 2009
Open KSA is a collection of digital resources that may be used for teaching, learning, and research by the KSA and the global community. Open KSA…
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Federal Resources Educational Excellence
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April 2, 2009
FREE has more than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly. …
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2 New Digital Models Promise Academic Publishing for Profit
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October 2, 2008
"Scholarly publishers are well aware that more and more readers and libraries want to get hold of monographs in electronic form. The trick has been how to deliver content digitally without g…
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Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
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September 16, 2008
Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the econ…


















