Interesting Papers

From openmichigan

see also: OpenMichigan Reading Group

• Alissa Centivany & Bobby Glushko. (2009) "Open Educational Resources and the University: Law, Technology, and Magical Thinking" at the 37th annual Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC), George Mason Law School. http://tprcweb.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72

• OECD (2008) - Giving Knowledge for Free
• Koohang, Alex & Harman, Keith - Advancing Sustainability of Open Educational Resources
• Das, Anup Kumar (2008) - Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives – the South Asian Scenario
• Kirkpatrick, Karie L. (2006) - OpenCourseWare: An "MIT Thing"?
• Downes, Stephen (2007) - Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources
• Dholakia, Utpal M., King, W. Joseph, & Baraniuk, Richard - What Makes an Open Education Program Sustainable?
• http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Developing-a-Personal-Open/24696/
• http://chronicle.com/article/Mass-Video-Courses-May-Free-Up/123781/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
• http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2010/07/28/thoughts-on-our.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=alzheimer%20data&st=cse
• http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/07/wikipedia
• http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/data-management-and-curation/open-science-case-studies
• http://chronicle.com/blogPost/MIT-Looks-to-Make-Money/26958/
• http://reganmian.net/blog/2010/09/17/categorizing-oer-based-on-four-purposes/
• http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/78006
  
• http://chronicle.com/article/How-We-Value-Faculty-Work/124984/ - very interesting in how we view OER publication as important for tenure; the responsibilities of faculty: "contribute to your students and your discipline"
• http://chronicle.com/article/As-Textbooks-Go-Digital-Will/124881/ - comments provide a large variety of feeling about the usefulness of books and mixing/matching content
• http://chronicle.com/article/Open-Teaching-When-the/124170/ - open education at its finest, and worst; good comments from faculty
• http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/open-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard
• http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1300040 - includes Open.Michigan mention
• February 2013: New England Journal of Medicine published a special perspectives series on open access publishing - http://www.nejm.org/toc/nejm/368/9/
• March 2013: Nature magazine published a special issue and podcast on open access in scientific publishing - http://nature.com/scipublishing, http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index-2013-03-28.html
• http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/listing.aspx?CID=2