Bad news of the day:
http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/05/13/a-nightmare-scenario-for-higher-education/
It's past time for universities to devote more of their considerable
resources toward developing OERs to prevent this sort of foolishness.
Commercial publishers need universities,
Hi Steve,
Agreed -- ludicrous that we in the the academy as custodians and creators of
knowledge are allowing academic publishers to dictate the curriculum our
learners can access. How did we let this happen? How long will we allow this
to continue?
I hope more publishers will follow suite which
Indeed - This lawsuit might be a good argument around which to centre
discussions to attract those that still think that everything is fine and
'it worked for me' towards contributing to OERs.
Cheers
Fabiana
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Wayne Mackintosh
mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: