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Added the J. of Interactive Tech. & Pedagogy http://t.co/OugST0Tp to the #openaccess #elearning #journal spreadsheet http://t.co/vkEVls2U

Article on why open access is important. Has a long exploration of the for & against arguments in the comments.

"Higher education institutions face a number of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. The institutions perform a number of scholarship functions which can be affected by new technologies, and the desire is to retain these functions where appropriate, whilst the form they take may change. Much of the reaction to technological change comes from those with a vested interest in either wholesale change or maintaining the status quo. Taking the resilience metaphor from ecology, the authors propose a framework for analysing an institution's ability to adapt to digital challenges. This framework is examined at two institutions (the UK Open University and Canada's Athabasca University) using two current digital challenges, namely Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Access publishing."

Resource from students at McGill Uni regarding copyright and open access materials.

Harvard Library cannot afford to subscribe to scholarly journals which have increased in cost to $3.75m, They recommend staff use open access journals.

The ALT-J journal is now open access and all back issues are available here.

Open is not all it seems when you still have to pay for it!

Webinar schedule for Open Access Week 18-22 October, 2010. (Good promotion for Otago Polytechnic).

Course for Aus eds on copyright.  Materials all CC licensed.

NZ Govt framework for open licensing of govt docs.

"OLCOS, the Open eLearning Content Observatory Services project (1/2006-12/2007) is co-funded under the European Union's eLearning Programme and aims at building an (online) information and observation centre for promoting the concept, production and usage of open educational resources, in particular, open digital educational content (ODEC) in Europe."

"It is at once a statement of principle, a statement of strategy and a statement of commitment. It is meant to spark dialogue, to inspire action and to help the open education movement grow. Open education is a living idea. As the movement grows, this idea will continue to evolve. There will be other visions initiatives and declarations beyond Cape Town. This is exactly the point. The Cape Town signatories have committed to developing further strategies, especially around open technology and teaching practices."

via Apple evangelist Peter Mellow an Apple seminar on open access learning in higher education. Streamed via iTunes... kidding ;-)

Special Issue of IRRODL on Connectivism

This is the homepage for OpenPhysics: an on-going project to build a multimedia, interactive physics textbook for schools in New Zealand and Australia.

Dan Cohen (Mr Zotero) talks open access and scholarly values. Nice lecture capture interface too!

Developing a communication system by which users can connect to each other and share information in the absence of convenient access to the Internet.