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Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. 

Open education: Common(s), commonism  and the new common wealth

"Let's stop looking to technology for everything or nothing. Instead, let's think about what technology could look like, and figure out how to deploy it to make the world better for students and to use our way-undervalued teachers' time and energy more wisely."

"Hack/ prank/ fail: what YouTube can tell us about students, schools and computers"

2012 Alberta-British Columbia Managing Online Learning Survey Report (PDF)

This paper locates the notion of technological revolutions in the Neo-Schumpeterian effort to  understand innovation and to identify the regularities, continuities and discontinuities in the process of  innovation. It looks at the micro- and meso-foundations of the patterns observed in the evolution of  technical change and the interrelations with the context that shape the rhythm and direction of innovation.  On this basis, it defines technological revolutions, examines their structure and the role that they play in  rejuvenating the whole economy through the application of the accompanying techno-economic paradigm.  This over-arching meta-paradigm or shared best practice 'common sense' is in turn defined and analysed  in its components and its impact, including the influence it exercises on institutional and social change. 

A learning and research environment based on Yochai Benkler's book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

"In this model, the online content is generally " wrapped" with some face-to-face class time by a local instructor, who can facilitate discussion, answer questions, ensure that students are making progress, and possibly augment the course with additional content and/or assessments."

More than a decade of debate over Canadian copyright reform came to a conclusion last week as Bill C-11, the fourth try at reform since 2005, formally took effect. While several elements of the bill still await further regulations, the biggest overhaul of Canadian copyright law in years is now largely complete.

Learning is a central focus of the Athabasca University e-Lab.  Discover many digital research tools and online resources in the e-Lab.

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