Despite MS Challenge, Open Content and Open Source Get In
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 report read as follows: The commission encourages the creation of incentives to promote the development of open-source and open-content projects at universities and colleges across the United States, enabling the open sharing of educational materials from a variety of institutions, disciplines, and educational perspectives. Such a portal could stimulate innovation, and serve as the leading resource for teaching and learning. New initiatives such as OpenCourseWare, the Open Learning Initiative, the Sakai Project, and the Google Book project hold out the potential of providing universal access both to general knowledge and to higher education. ...