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Who Profits From For-Profit Journals?

Maternowski, K. (2009) Who Profits From For-Profit Journals? Inside Higher Education, June 12 This article is not specifically about e-learning but it is about open...

Googleopoly

Westcott, G. (2009) 'Googleopoly' The Globe and Mail, Feb 21 This is an excellent article by a Toronto lawyer and Vice-Chair of the Canadian Copyright...

The Dynamic Nature of Knowledge: Future Challenges and Opportunities

Eckel, P. and Hartley, M. (2008) The Dynamic Nature of Knowledge: Future Challenges and Opportunities Washington DC: American Council on Education From the publisher's...

Faculty ownership and control of digital course materials

Morgan, G. (2000) 'Faculty Ownership and Control of Digital Course Materials,' Teaching with Technology Today, vol. 5, no. 4 An excellent, authoritative account of...

Pushing the Envelope on Copyright Exemptions

Lederman, D. (2008) Pushing the Envelope on Copyright Exemptions Inside Higher Education, Dec 14 An interesting article on requested exemptions to US copyright law that...

Fair Use Ain’t What You Think It Is: Copyright and Fair Use in the...

Davis, M. (2008) Fair Use Ain’t What You Think It Is: Copyright and Fair Use in the Digital Classroom New Media Consortium 2008...

NMC Releases 2008 Summer Conference Proceedings

The 2008 Proceedings of the 2008 NMC Summer Conference features ten papers presented in PDF format to take advantage of the images, video,...

Intellectual property toolkit for next generation technologies

Experts from Loughborough University (UK), together with colleagues from Edinburgh and Plymouth Universities, are members of the Web2Rights Project. The assignment of the project group...

World Economic Forum Global Advisory Council on Technology and Education

The World Economic Forum held its first Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai between 7-9 November, 2008. The summit was attended by over...

Open educational resources (OER)

Whatever happened to learning objects? Well, they've been replaced (or rather swallowed up) by open educational resources. Increasingly, more and more institutions are making...