... The Access to Knowledge Initiative draws on a wide range of disciplines as outlined in the Initiative Objectives (in sidebar at right [Note: omitted here]). Our current research includes projects examining the long-term sustainability of university-based open education initiatives; a "Continuous Local Improvement Curriculum" (CLIC) model of leveraging and improving open source curriculum materials in an online high schools involving a significant amount of educational data mining; issues of textbook affordability; business models supporting the creation and distribution of open source textbooks; the sales impact of releasing free online copies of commercially printed books; institutional policies dealing with open access to research and open educational resources; and a scalable "data-driven micro-tutoring" teaching model ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 8/07/2009 04:38:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
