I thought this might be of some interest to people here. Basically, there's a new grant program for two-year colleges that requires that any curricular materials produced with the grant money be released as CC-BY.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/21/u_s_releases_guidelines_for_new_community_college_grant_program I've always thought that it makes no sense for taxpayers to fund development of materials that they have to pay again to access. Now for a mandate for all taxpayer-funded research to be open access.... -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://hiresteve.com http://wikieducator.org/steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
