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Ongoing web documentary (to 2013) by the National Film Board (Canada) in which the traditional model of dealing with homelessness is flipped: housing first, other issues second. Eye-opening in terms of its design and its content.

Professors around the world assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia for class assignment. It is used in Brazil, Canada, Egypt and USA. Interesting: students share in the Wikipedia in multiple languages.

A brief and readable overview of the Supreme Court's copyright rulings in July, 2012.

Canadian uiversities post open courses under (CC) Licenses. Widki Ambasador watch for the material that it must have the Encyclopedia tone writing and fair. Students can edit their work group members work in the posted courses.

"Alberta (Education) v. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright), 2012 SCC 37" Does instructional photocopying of short excerpts from copyrighted textbooks constitute "fair dealing" and is therefore exempt from royalty fees? Supremes vote Yes, 5 to 4

Does this SCC ruling have an appreciable effect on OERs?