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  • Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models: Views from a Non-Economist

    The Houghton and Oppenheim paper and the JISC report focus on three publishing models: subscription publishing; open access (OA) publishing (often called ?Gold OA?); and open access self-archiving. The author responds respond both as an academic who conducts research, writes about it and tries to get it published, and as a researcher interested in scholarly communication, publishing and open... more

  • A Commentary on 'The Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models'

    In ?The economic implications of alternative publishing models?, Houghton and Oppenheim summarise a much longer and more detailed report (Houghton et al., 2009) published by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in January 2009. This original report piled assumption on assumption, estimate on estimate, to arrive at a series of conclusions about the potential economic benefits of open... more

  • Impact of Opencourseware on Paid Enrollment in Distance Learning Courses

    Since MIT launched the first OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative in 2002, responses from the academic community have ranged from exuberance to angst. Some institutions have been reluctant to adopt a program of open publishing because of concerns about long-term funding and possible adverse effects on paid enrollment. Money is an issue, forcing some organizations that initially created OCW... more

  • Sharing the Garden: Working with OER in African Contexts

    A presentation for the Learning Futures Festival Online 2010, Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester.  This presentation will argue that the key usefulness of OER in African context is that it creates an impetus for the discovery and sharing of high quality existing resources as OER that are otherwise unknown or simply the preserve of individual institutions or publishers... more

  • Open Educational Resources and Higher Education

    This paper examines the concept of OER in more detail, offering a simple, clear definition, explaining the economic and educational potential behind that definition, introducing examples of OER practices around the world, exploring legal considerations, and highlighting some of the challenges to releasing the transformative potential of OER. more

  • Crossing the Chasm: OER in Africa 'A Sea Change: Reclaiming our Power'. Reclaiming the Potential of Higher Education

    OER in Africa: A Sea Change? A Keynote Address at the OpenEd 2009: Crossing the Chasm. This is a keynote address made by OER Africa Project Director Catherine Ngugi at the Open Education Conference: Crossing the Chasm held at the /Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada/ from the 12 - 14 August 2009. The video presentation can be viewed at http://openedconference.org/archives/1030 [1]. This is a... more

  • How Giving Away Religious Digital Books Influences the Print Sales of Those Books

    Lack of access prevents many from benefiting from educational resources. Digital technologies now enable educational resources, such as books, to be openly available to those with access to the Internet. This study examined the financial viability of a religious publisher?s putting free digital versions of eight of its books on the Internet. The total cost of putting these books online was $... more

  • OER Africa - An Introduction (Kenya Methodist University, Meru) January 2010

    Presentation on an Institutional Policy Review by OER Africa to the Kenya Methodist University, Meru, Kenya, 27th January 2010. more

  • Peer-To-Peer Recognition of Learning in Open Education

    Recognition in education is the acknowledgment of learning achievements. Accreditation is certification of such recognition by an institution, an organization, a government, a community, etc. There are a number of assessment methods by which learning can be evaluated (exam,practicum, etc.) for the purpose of recognition and accreditation, and there are a number of different purposes for the... more

  • Openness, Dynamic Specialization, and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education

    Openness is a fundamental value underlying significant changes in society and is a prerequisite to changes institutions of higher education need to make in order to remain relevant to the society in which they exist. There are a number of ways institutions can be more open, including programs of open sharing of educational materials. Individual faculty can also choose to be more open without... more

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