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EDUCAUSE values sharing, collaboration, and open access to knowledge and resources, and thus supports technologies, applications, and approaches that foster openness. Embracing openness as a core value commits EDUCAUSE to helping both its institutional and corporate members engage the topic on a sustained basis, with the goal of maximizing the flexibility and creativity with which members can advance their missions.
To learn more about openness as a core value of EDUCAUSE, please review the following value statement
Articles
- Open Governance in Higher Education: Extending the Past to the Future, EDUCAUSE Review, January/February 2011.
- Openness is the theme of the July/August EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no 4, 2010. Articles on open content, open access, OER and open faculty are all included in this issue.
- Openness in Delivering Education and Content, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, 2009.
- EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, vol. 44, no. 1, January/February 2009 Openness themed issue of EDUCAUSE Review
- What Is Openness, Anyway? EDUCAUSE Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, 2009.
- Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 1, January/February 2008.
Web Seminars and Podcasts
- Openness: Decoupling the Future to Radically Improve Access to Education, EDUCAUSE Live!, October 10th, 2011.
- The World Is Open: Now, WE ALL LEARN with Web Technology, ELI Annual Conference, January 21, 2010.
- Incidental Openness: Exploring Stories of Education in the Open, ELI Annual Conference, January 21, 2010.
- Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access, EDUCAUSE Live!, October 13th, 2009.
- Where Is the Open Education Movement Going?, EDUCAUSE Live!, May 19th, 2009.
- Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, EDUCAUSE Live!,October 17, 2008.
Discussion Resources
- EDUCAUSE Openness Constituent Group - Discurssion list
Updated January 2012
Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Openness
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Wikipedia and Academia, Friends at Last: Curricular Initiatives in Higher Education
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October 19, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Last January marked the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia, a milestone that finds the open-access encyclopedia as the top-ranked, noncommercial site in the world. Wikipedia has had an impact that is p…
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Open Educational Resources: Access, Impact, and Sustainability Through Policy
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October 20, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
The availability of and interest in open educational resources (OER) have increased dramatically over the past decade. The increased availability of OER raises questions about the effect they are h…
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Open Resources: The Need for Integration
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October 20, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Over the past 10 years or so there has been a growing, and inexorable, movement toward making scholarly and academic resources openly available. Within IT this first appeared in open-source softwar…
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DIY U: Edupunks and the Future of Higher Education
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October 19, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Open content, blended learning, prior learning assessment, and personal learning networks and paths are all shaping the future of higher education. The common threads are technology, social media, …
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The Horizon Report in Action: Deploying Innovation Locally
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October 13, 2010
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
Wondering what's new in mobile computing, electronic books, and open content? Join members of ACTL, the Advisory Committee on Teaching and Learning, as they review the Horizon Report and e…
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Creating Open Educational Resource (OER) Content Playlists as Textbook Alternatives
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October 15, 2010
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
The increasing cost of textbooks and instructional materials has limited access to education for many. This presentation will provide one response to this challenge, namely, the development of a co…
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Collaboration Is Strategy
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November 4, 2009
As open content, "above campus" economies of scale, and cloud services shape the environment for education and research, effective collaboration becomes an essential tool for IT leaders a…
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Collaboration Is Strategy
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November 4, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
As open content, "above campus" economies of scale, and cloud services shape the environment for education and research, effective collaboration becomes an essential tool for IT leaders a…
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MIT OpenCourseWare: A New Model for Open Sharing
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January 1, 2003
MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) makes the MIT faculty's course materials available on the Web free, to any user, anywhere. With the publication of 500 subjects in September 2003, MIT is deliver…

















