[TOS] request for references on open source and creative commons in academia

[Mel Chua]

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