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Comment on A Big Day for Open Policy by Notes from the web: OER platforms and news « kavubob's miscellanea

Notes from the web: OER platforms and news « kavubob's miscellanea — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:03:50 +0000

[...] is debating this idea is a big step forward. More detailed coverage of the bill is available on Tom Caswell’s blog and on Cable Green’s [...]

Comment on A Big Day for Open Policy by tom4cam

tom4cam — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:34:00 +0000

David, I agree that some of the concerns raised at the hearings are very valid. Rep. Carlyle has generated some important discussion through his proposed legislation. They key question is if an open license should be mandated for all publicly funded educational materials across all public institutions of higher education in Washington. Based on the conversation yesterday, perhaps a more strategic approach involves getting high quality, open textbooks in place first. I think it’s less about IF and more about WHEN we set the default to open.

Comment on A Big Day for Open Policy by Cable Green

Cable Green — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:22:00 +0000

I was not able to attend the hearing and testify. If I was there, I would have asked the committee members:
If state and federal gas taxes were used to build a road to the University of Washington, should the contractor who built the road (paid for with public funds) be allowed to (a) own the road and (b) charge the public a toll to drive on it?Or, should the public that paid for the construction and maintenance of the road have the legal right to drive on it?When the public pays for the creation and maintenance of education resources, should the public have access to use the resources it paid for?It’s the same question: Do you think public tax payers should get what they paid for?

Comment on A Big Day for Open Policy by David Lippman

David Lippman — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:48:00 +0000

Interesting. I am a huge advocate for OER, but I’ll be honest – this bill may be a bit overreaching. I’m imagining faculty who use images provided by the textbook publisher in their PowerPoints. The idea of requiring them to go edit those slides and remove all those copy-written images so they can put online a potentially useless version of those slides just seems silly. Also, the notion of a technophobe teacher being required to compile all their course materials and post them digitally could be a logistic nightmare. I’m all for open being the default. I’m not so sure I’m totally behind open being the only option. I hope the bill gets amended in a way to address some of these very legitimate concerns.

Comment on A Big Day for Open Policy by Cable Green

Cable Green — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:12:00 +0000

Well said, Tom. I added Rep. Carlyle’s FAQs for the bill here: http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu/2012/01/wa-legislature-considers-open-policy.html

Comment on About Tom by Open Course Library – Phase 2 – It begins « Open Ph.D. – An Experiment in Higher Learning

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:33:44 +0000

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Comment on Three Things You Should Know About the Open Course Library by New Legislation in California: Free Digital Open Textbooks « The Saylor Foundation

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:53:21 +0000

[...] its kind for higher ed: this year, the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges launched their Open Course Library, which will realize savings of over $1.2 million for its students in just [...]

Comment on Three Things You Should Know About the Open Course Library by P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Institutional Strategies for Open Education

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:02:09 +0000

[...] college system just released the first phase of its Open Course Library, which currently contains high quality, affordable, adaptable educational materials to support 42 courses. According to the Student Public Interest Research [...]