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Pedro Pernias from the Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos de la Universidad de Alicante (you may know as the author of CMS4OCW used by the UNIVERSIA consortium) has let me know that he has finished translating Getting Axiomatic about Learning Objects into Spanish and posted on his Contenidos Abiertos website. Pedro is doing many … Read more
One of the most amazing quotes I’ve seen in a while comes from Allan Adler, vice president for legal and government affairs of the Association of American Publishers, in an article about Open Access to Research. [Mr. Alder] rejected the idea that taxpayer financed research should be open to the public, saying that it was … Read more
As per the alternately infuriating (do we need another reason to *hate* MicroSoft?) and comical article at InsideHigherEd, the US Secretary of Education’s Commission’s on the Future of Higher Education *did* succeed in getting some language around open content into the Commission’s formal recommendations / report – but just barely. The original recommendation in the … Read more