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At this point it may be helpful to take a step back and talk about copyrights.

I list a product that can be used for free, or that costs very little, and you try to come up with a better, more expensive alternative that you would rather use

“What could you do to spread awareness and help the movement grow?”

If you didn’t know already, OER has been around for sometime now.

Open ≠ Free

“owning”

Open ≠ Free

Institutions and faculty should be doing everything they can to reduce costs. Especially when it may be as simple as choosing one book over another.

education is a deliberate effort to improve as an individual or even as a society as a whole

Maybe you could make a top 25 list and post it online.

Education Important

The work is openly published so those other people can find and use (5R) it

We should have a bias towards asking students to DO things that are more effective than less.

“what can I do in the context of open that I couldn’t do before?

Sadly, many of the educators who choose OER end up driving them on the road, anyway.

When an educator makes the choice to adopt traditionally copyrighted textbooks and other materials, they are choosing to drive their airplane on the road.

“open pedagogy” – is it possible without the free access and 4R permissions characteristic of open educational resources? If the answer is yes, then you may have an effective educational practice but you don’t have an instance of open pedagogy.

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Using OER the same way we used commercial textbooks misses the point. It’s like driving an airplane down the road.

What the Net takes away with one hand, it often gives back with the other. Cheaper copying does not merely mean loss, it also means opportunity. Before strengthening intellectual property rights, we would need to know whether the loss was greater than the gain and whether revised business models and new distribution mechanisms could avoid the losses while capturing more of the gains.

In other words, we must make this technology of the Internet, which was hailed as the great “technology of freedom,” into a technology of control and surveillance.

The strength of intellectual property rights must vary inversely with the cost of copying. With high copying costs, one needs weak intellectual property rights if any at all.

But as far as the mainstream press was concerned, the story line on the Internet was sex: pornography, online predation, more pornography.

As policy and legal documents these are in one sense long out of date

a careful explanation that they should not be treatedas natural rights

as anencouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility

Patents then, as now, were only supposed to be given for inventions that werenovel, nonobvious, and useful

such as those in the music business

When teachers feel genuine ownership of their materials, what changes in the way they teach?

Students who used open textbooks each received their own copy of the book, whereas other students may have had limited access to classroom sets.

now wait 7–10 years between textbook purchases

2011 GPA, 2011 science test taken, and 2011 science criterion-referenced test (CRT) scores as estimates of students’ general academic ability, motivation, and science ability. Also included were student age, gender, race, English proficiency, year in school, special-education status, eligibility for free- and reduced-price lunch, and teacher.

A separate group of teachers created their own textbooks by revising and remixing OER

come from a reputable source

First, Clements and Pawlowski identified a perceived lack of quality as one of the key barriers to broader adoption of OER.

today’s accountability-focused climate demands attention to the educational utility of OER, specifically as they relate to supporting student learning.

Both the OER and the commercial textbooks should be evaluated for quality

In one course

the core purpose of education is to support learning. If the adoption of open textbooks decreases costs but also negatively influences student learning, educators should well view them with skepticism.

reduced a barrier to their chances for academic success.

55 % of teachers adopting OER reported that the open materials were of the same quality as the materials they had previously used, and 35 % felt that they were better.

50 % of students said that the OER textbooks were of the same quality as traditional textbooks and nearly 40 % said that they were better.

OER materials eschew traditional copyright in lieu of licenses that allow others to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute the material

More recent theories have focused on ways to help students internalize that information in a way that makes it both personally meaningful and applicable to new situations.

They learn from and with their peers as much as

Less well understood but potentially of huge relevance to the OER movement are the processes whereby resources are contributed, mixed, enhanced, and redistributed—in which less-than-high-quality materials are revised and improved and become part of something much better.

most relevant is the movement toward more open forms of scholarly communication—the authoring, review, publication, and access of academic works.

need to know to need to share.

At least one section of all required courses

"Many purchasers fear that if they move to OER, then they could lose the funding they previously hadallotted for textbooks."

have materials at school and to take home

ikely not used to its full potentia

There needs to be one place to find all the material, sorted by subject and standards."

Educators report having difficulty locating non-STEM materia

designing the programs forces them to think in fresh ways about ancient techniques

a deep recommitment to effective teaching and learning is evolving

Learning — not technology — is the goal of SMA

community

enhance our service to society and to improve education world wide, goals they considered to be more important than revenue possibilities

using these new findings and insights to develop and refine the courses she teaches.

the enhancement of learning.

I believe the answer is "Yes" — to both

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Open-source development breaks this bind

too often software developers spend their days grinding away for pay at programs they neither need nor love

starts by scratching a developer's personal itch

must

It may be unclear whether the factual data embedded in full text are part of the copyright.

Because of this uncertainty it is also possible for public or private organizations to aggregate said data, protect it with copyright and then resell it.

medical data

Open access is not synonymous with universal access

The purpose of the campaign for OA is the constructive one of providing OA to a larger and larger body of literature, not the destructive one of putting non-OA journals or publishers out of business

peer review

The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers.

They write for impact, not for money.

freely modifiable source code in 1991

freeware

thus not free software in the modern meaning of the phrase

was not seen as a commodity in itself

keeping with the academic principles of sharing knowledge,

In brief, open textbooks are faculty-written, peer-reviewed textbooks that are published under an open license

We acknowledge there are additional costs not accounted for, in that the original creation of many of the OER which were later used in KOCI was funded by grants from foundations or governments

share learning and investment in the project.

throughout the state

textbooks accounted for 59% of the total cost of attending community college

read the textbooks less frequently than their instructors might desire

are generally more likely to complete the course,

While a student with the ability to buy books outright pays sticker price, a student using financial may actually end up paying a higher price for course materials.

less than $1000

a $2,400 and $1,200 student loan translates into $555.55 and $277.73 worth of interest respectively.

we're also learning how to participate fully in the life of this nation.

well-informed lifestyle decisions.

have less stress.