Hi Bonnie, First, +1 to the "Opening Up Education" book. Also, this program
http://www.openaccessweek.org/ focuses on promoting open-access research literature. Also, you might be interested to know that in your mathematics department, Florin Catrina runs a webwork server (open-source online homework system). Jason 2011/4/12 Bonnie MacKellar <macke...@stjohns.edu>: > Hi, > > > > I usually lurk on this list but read with interest, especially since we are > about to dive into a summer project as part of the HFOSS initiative. > > > > My Dean has suddenly become interested in the topic of open access to > academic materials, partially because of my involvement with HFOSS. She has > been asking me for material that she can read. The Dean is NOT in computer > science, or any technical field for that matter, so I need to give her > something at an appropriate level. It needs to be something that a Dean > would find compelling, and that would make her feel that this is a movement > worth supporting. I have heard Hal Abelson speak about Creative Commons and > other efforts, but I can’t find a reference that really sums things up in a > compelling way. Does anyone here have any good references? I think that > getting deans and other top administrators on board is going to be very key > to the our ability to integrate open source and open licenses into academia. > > > > Thanks, > > Bonnie MacKellar > > St John’s University > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
