On 04/12/2011 09:13 AM, Bonnie MacKellar wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks! However, I don't think my Dean is going to wade through an > entire book, or research literature. I need something that is pithy > and designed for administrators who don't have a lot of time on > their hands. I think she is more interested in open access > educational materials, but since she has heard the term "open source" > as part of the HFOSS acronym quite frequently in recent weeks, she is > curious about that too. > > It is really important to have short, appealing resources designed > for administrators since those are the people we need to get on > board.
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but since you talked specifically about "open access to materials," a couple things off the top of my head: Creative Commons resources: http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads - especially the short pdf "encouraging the ecology of creativity" at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/65/Creativecommons-encouraging-the-ecology-of-creativity_eng.pdf, the case studies at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies, and the education portal, http://creativecommons.org/education. Also an interview with Lisa Petrides, http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22608 which addresses some of these issues. http://opensource.com/education has some nice stories on open access, like: * http://opensource.com/education/11/1/video-education-without-limits-why-open-textbooks-are-way-forward * http://opensource.com/education/11/1/one-tweet-can-change-world * http://opensource.com/education/10/10/how-open-access-research-benefits-us-all There are a lot more stories about schools using and/or contributing to open source communities and the projects they make, but I'm focused on use of open materials here since that seems to be the target. http://opensource.com/education/10/12/open-education-2010-review has a nice roundup of other articles, though. There are also initiatives like http://www.plos.org/ which spawned a series of open academic journals, if appealing to the scholarly side of things is attractive. --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
