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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

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Higher Education in the Ultra-Connected Age: 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…
Next-Generation MOOCs with Open-Source PaaS: April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
MOOCs are popular, plentiful, and low cost, thanks to cloud computing. A current challenge with computer science –based MOOCs, however, is that computer science students need increased capabili…
Assessing the Efficacy of Third-Party MOOCs in Hybrid Instruction: April 4, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
The California state legislation's recent move to mandate that public universities award credit for new forms of online instruction such as MOOCs raises questions about how to measure what stu…
Using an Open-Source Platform to Meet Online Learning Goals: An Introduction to Class2Go: April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
As universities dive deeper into online learning and MOOCs, what role can a platform play in meeting online learning goals? At Stanford, we discovered that developing and using the Class2Go open-so…
What's In It for Us? The Benefits to Campus Courses of Running a MOOC: April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
The blogosphere likes to talk about what benefits MOOCs bring to the student, but what about to the institution offering them? Specifically, to the "traditional online" or face-to-face co…
Everything You Think You Know about MOOCs Could Be Wrong: April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
There are four things that we think we know about MOOCs: They are "massive," they are "open," they are "online," and they are "courses." But what happens if …
The PressForward Project and Scholarly Communication on the Open Web: 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…
Ultra-Affordable Online Courses and the Transformation of Higher Education: January 23, 2013

Brian Voss and Burck Smith will explore higher education's changing landscape and what it means for our IT community. Join us for a discussion spanning traditional institutions, entrepre…
Emerging Insights on Learning, Technology, and the Road Ahead: February 14, 2013 | A session at the West/Southwest Regional Conference
In this presentation we'll explore emerging insights in the quickly changing world of learning. We'll look to models from today and envision the road ahead on issues including the inter…
NextGenU.org: The World's First Portal to Free, Accredited Higher Education: February 13, 2013
NextGenU.org is the world's first portal to free, accredited higher education. We partner with leading universities, professional societies, and government organizations (including the U.S. …

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