[WikiEducator] Nightmare scenario for higher education

2011-05-19 Thread Steve Foerster
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,

Re: [WikiEducator] Nightmare scenario for higher education

2011-05-19 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
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

Re: [WikiEducator] Nightmare scenario for higher education

2011-05-19 Thread Fabiana Kubke
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: