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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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Open Educational Resources: Access, Impact, and Sustainability Through Policy: October 20, 2011 | 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…
Open Resources: The Need for Integration: October 20, 2011 | 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…
DIY U: Edupunks and the Future of Higher Education: October 19, 2011 | 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, …
Reporting on the Findings of the Florida Student Textbook Survey: May 16, 2011

It’s clear that the high cost of textbooks has become a burden for students, with significant implications for student learning, success, and finances. Multiple solutions are being proposed for…
Future of Higher Education: March 29, 2011

What does the future hold for higher education? How is American academia changing under the impact of continuous technological transformation? In these quarterly columns I will explore several…
7 Things You Should Know About Open Textbook Publishing: March 8, 2011

The open educational resources model, including textbooks, has emerged as a response to rising text prices, a need for greater access to high-quality learning materials, the proliferation of e-r…
Beyond OER: Shifting Focus to Open Educational Practices: February 25, 2011

This report found that OER are more widely used where programs or initiatives for open resources exist at the institutional level. The lesser the fear, insecurity or discomfort towards OER, the h…
Openness in Streaming Media: February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011
Online tools are transforming the way we interact with streaming audio and video. What once was housed in an hour-long disc is now open at the per-second level. Sharing customized clips, discipline…
Open Education: Progress and Challenges: February 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011
A grassroots movement is sweeping through the academic world. The "open education movement" is based on a set of intuitions that are shared by a remarkably wide range of academics: that k…
The Open Textbook Puzzle: February 16, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011
Can open textbooks provide a viable solution to high-cost textbooks? Are they quality books? What will encourage faculty to develop or adopt them? What is a book? How do students prefer to use text…

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