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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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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…
Openness, Learning Analytics, and Continuous Quality Improvement: February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011
The primary purpose of educators is to help people improve in some way. In a deep and overarching way, the second purpose of educators should be to improve our ability to educate. "Openness&qu…
Collaborative Learning and Transmedia Teaching (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology): February 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011
In this session we explain, demonstrate, and discuss a course we co-teach at the University of Oregon that uses the WordPress MultiUser platform as a framework for creating a dynamic, collaborative…
Open Governance in Higher Education: Extending the Past to the Future: February 7, 2011

Patrick Masson ( pmasson@umassonline.net ) is Chief Technology Officer of UMassOnline, the online consortium of the University of Massachusetts. Comments on this article can be posted to…
Who Needs Textbooks?: January 25, 2011

How Washington State is redesigning textbooks for the digital age. How Washington State is redesigning textbooks for the digital age. …
Free to Learn: An Open Educational Resources Policy Development Guidebook for Community College Governance Officials: October 4, 2010

Open Educational Resources (OER) offer higher education governance leaders a cost-efficient method of improving the quality of teaching and learning while at the same time reducing costs imposed …
A Cover to Cover Solution: How Open Textbooks are the Path to Textbook Affordability: September 30, 2010

This report evaluates cost-reducing options from the traditional textbook market - rentals, e-books and e-readers - and open textbooks as potential next steps to reduce the high cost of te…
Deploying Innovation Locally: October 7, 2010

© 2010 Veronica Diaz, Cindy Jennings, Kelvin Bentley, P. B. Garrett, Barron Koralesky, Christina Royal, and David Starrett. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attrib…
Supercourse, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and the Educator as Catalyst: September 22, 2010

Key Takeaways In the 1980s, BITNET inspired researchers in health care to create the Global Health Network Supercourse, an open-source repository of lectures on public health and prevention…
DataSpace: A Funding and Operational Model for Long-Term Preservation and Sharing of Research Data: September 1, 2010

At the May 5 meeting of the National Research Board, the NSF announced that, as of October 2010, it will require that all grant proposals include a data management plan. This announcement represe…