Open Access Education - Building Communities and Sharing Knowledge

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Baraniuk, R. (2008). Open Access Education - Building Communities and Sharing Knowledge. Presented at World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008.
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Conference Information

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2008
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
November 17, 2008
AACE

Author

Richard Baraniuk, Rice University, United States

Abstract

A grassroots movement is sweeping through the academic world. The "open access movement" is based on a set of intuitions that are shared by a remarkably wide range of academics: that knowledge should be free and open to use and re-use; that collaboration should be easier, not harder; that people should receive credit and kudos for contributing to education and research; and that concepts and ideas are linked in unusual and surprising ways and not the simple linear forms that traditional media present. In this talk, I will overview the past, present, and future of the open access education movement in the context of Connexions (cnx.org), which invites authors, educators, and learners worldwide to "create, rip, mix, and burn" textbooks, courses, and learning materials from a global open-access repository.

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