E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

E-Content: Opportunity and Risk

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.…

Free Digital Textbooks, More For-Profit Accountability Coming to California

September 28, 2012

As reported by Inside Higher Ed , new laws enacted in California will have significant impacts on higher education in the state. The Los Angeles Times reports that two companion pi…

Dramatically Bringing Down the Cost of Education with OER: How Open Education Resources Unlock the Door to Free Learning

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…

Defining “Noncommercial”: A Study of How the Online Population Understands “Noncommercial Use”

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…

Textbooks for the Disabled

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. …

Why Lakoff still matters: Framing the debate on copyright law and digital publishing

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…

Video Vision

September 15, 2008

© 2008 Victor Edmonds. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ). EDUCAUSE Re…

Open Access in 2007

February 15, 2008

Peter Suber shares his annual review of the open access movement. The article highlights 15 categories of open access activity in 2007. Peter Sub…

A Review of the Open Educational Resources Movement: Achievement, Challenges and New Opportunities

February 27, 2007

This report examines The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s past investments in Open Educational Resources, the emerging impact and explores future opportunities.  Central to the report …

JSTOR Amicus Brief

October 18, 2007

EDUCAUSE joined a broad coalition in filing an amicus, or friend of the court, brief on behalf of the National Geographic Society which seeks permission to reproduce a print collective work in el…