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Health Education Assets Library - Home - 0 views

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    An Open Health Sciences repository
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Free Online Course Materials | Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology |... - 0 views

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    Harvard Health Sciences Open CourseWare
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'Open Courseware' Idea Spreads - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • "People who come to public health are committed to really making a difference in the lives of people," he says. "By and large academics, especially in public health, realize that the availability of the content is going to have a beneficial effect."
  • Copyright is another challenge in running open-courseware projects, the meeting's participants say.
  • Many professors regularly use charts, graphs, or other illustrations they've culled from textbooks or other copyrighted works in slide presentations or handouts. Although using those illustrations in a classroom is allowed under fair-use provisions of copyright law, universities must get permission before putting the same materials online where anyone can see them.
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  • He says he prefers material on open-courseware sites over that found on professors' Web sites. "There's some level of quality control and general oversight associated" with open courseware, he says. "If I'm just strolling around on the Internet and come across some random professor's Web site," he adds, "it just kind of dilutes my confidence in it, and it makes me spend a lot more time really sitting down and looking for what I like."
  • Though officials hope the materials will have educational benefit, they stress that they are not a substitute for taking courses at the institutions.
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Open Textbooks « Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources - 0 views

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