Due to poor planning (ask me later) I’ve received a “new faculty grant” to start a free access, online, peer-reviewed, instructional technology “journal.” Of course, my inclination is to lean it toward learning objects / reusable media / online communities / blogs / open content / etc. for the topic or niche. But the point of the grant is to explore new publishing models, and there are a whole bunch of other exploratory things that could be done. (This of course all ties back into the recent lamenting about the sorry state of academic discourse in inst tech blog circles…)
Copyright and Education
There’s a great introduction to the DMCA and TEACH Act over at the “LIBRES Journal”:http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres13n1/index.htm Thanks to Henk at “In Between”:http://eepi.ubib.eur.nl/iliit/archives/2003_05.html#000143 for the link. Utah State University has just formed a committee to put policy in place ensuring our compliance with the TEACH Act. A committee I’m actually excited to be on!