Open content introduction
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The document discusses open content and access in liberal arts, emphasizing its definition and examples, including various platforms and models in academic settings. It highlights the transition towards more open access in higher education and presents challenges and benefits associated with this shift. Additionally, it mentions specific liberal arts colleges' initiatives to promote open access policies and repositories for scholarly work.
Open content introduction
- 1. Open content and open access:the liberal arts situation, 2010NITLE MIV sessionFebruary 2010
- 2. Plan for today’s sessionIntroCurrent examples in the wildAcademic use: issuesAcademic types: examples
- 3. I: introductionNITLE researchNew Media Consortium collaborationhttp://blogs.nitle.org/let/http://www.nmc.org/horizon; http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/chapters/open-content/
- 4. definitionWhat is open?“"open" refers to granting of copyright permissions above and beyond those offered by standard copyright law. "Open content," then, is content that is licensed in a manner that provides users with the right to make more kinds of uses than those normally permitted under the law - at no cost to the user.” http://www.opencontent.org/definition/
- 5. Wikipedia:“any kind of creative work, or content, published under a license that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organization, firm or individual.”(as of today)definition
- 7. definitionWhat isn't open?Barriers of costFormat?What level of technology is a barrier?Example: is Facebook open?
- 8. One question for 2010Is much of social media open content, for higher education?Reasons for yes: Widely consumed by our communitySome produced, dittoHard to tell boundaryReasons for no:institutional housinglegal differencesScaleOverlap with professional activities
- 9. Most of the content our students experience is open content. This is increasingly true of campus staff.Most of the content we all produce is not.One provocative hypothesis for 2010
- 10. II. Current examples in the wildBy media: textebooks (Gutenberg (1971!))Internet Archive, 1,873,889 textsHypertextWeb “1.0” contentInternet Archive’s Wayback MachineWikipediablogosphere
- 11. ImagesFlickr: 4 billion, as of October 2009 (http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/10/12/4000000000/) Creative Commons licensed?Attribution License: 17,695,366 photosAttribution-NoDerivs: 6,022,562 photosAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs: 41,169,071
- 12. AudioPodcasts (iTunesU)FreeSound (PompeuFabra University, Barelona;http://www.freesound.org/)Much depends on open standards, especially mp3Children of Men (2006) creditshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freesound_Project
- 13. Web videoYouTube; others (streaming)Internet Archive: 249,436 items (downloads)
- 14. social media and social networksBlogosphereTwitterFacebook publicLinkedIn and others
- 15. III. Academic issuesThe appealLower costs (consumption)Intellectual commonwealWorld citizen (production)PedagogiesThe problemsCost/benefit (production)Legal concerns (IP, HIPA)Content concerns (consumption)NB: onsumptionvs production
- 16. academic examplesCampus strategic publicationMIT OpenCourseWarehttp://ocw.mit.edu/,Tufts OCW http://ocw.tufts.edu/,Yale Open Sources http://oyc.yale.edu/ Open University http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
- 17. academic examplesCampus strategic publication: beyond the campushttp://www.ocwconsortium.org/ 20 in the US; 148 internationalsearch http://www.folksemantic.com/
- 21. academic examplesLiberal arts colleges?- “Trinity University’s faculty members today endorsed a measure to allow them to bypass some publication restrictions while sharing their scholarly research with the broader academic community...”http://www.trinity.edu/departments/public_relations/news_releases/091023openaccess.htm
- 22. “The new Open Access policy also would enable Trinity professors to post the author’s version of the article in a freely-accessible digital repository. Such a repository already exists as part of the Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository, a collaboration among Trinity and other private liberal arts colleges, including Carleton College, Bucknell University, Grinnell College, University of Richmond, St. Lawrence University, and Whitman College.” http://www.trinity.edu/departments/public_relations/news_releases/091023openaccess.htm
- 23. academic examplesOberlin:“Each member of the General Faculty and the Administrative and Professional Staff grants to Oberlin College permission to make his or her scholarly journal articles openly accessible in the College’s institutional repository...” http://www.oberlin.edu/library/programs/scholcom/OAresolution.html
- 24. “To assist the College in cataloguing and distributing the published scholarship of its faculty, each General Faculty and A&PS member will, upon publication of the article, provide an electronic copy of the author’s final peer-reviewed version of the article, along with the appropriate bibliographical data, to the Scholarly Communications Officer. This copy will be provided free of charge and in an appropriate format (such as PDF), as specified by the General Faculty Library Committee in consultation with the General Faculty Council…”http://www.oberlin.edu/library/programs/scholcom/OAresolution.html
- 25. academic examplesopen source in academe: related -LAMP-LMS-browser (FF)-mobile (Android)-gaming: Inform
- 26. Big picture, moving forwardGrowing number of institutions producing contentGrowing amount of content in the worldIncreasing foundation and government support
- 27. Big picture, moving forwardMobile devices: boom but splitAnd struggles in the world:
- 28. More from you!Examples? Problems? Opportunities?