Hi Steve, Agreed -- ludicrous that we in the the academy as custodians and creators of knowledge are allowing academic publishers to dictate the curriculum our learners can access. How did we let this happen? How long will we allow this to continue?
I hope more publishers will follow suite which will give the impetus for us to return to the core values of sharing knowledge. We have alternatives. Universities should follow the example of Athabasca University press which is 100% open access. The OER university <http://wikieducator.org/OERu> network is collaborating with forward looking education institutions in the formal sector to put an end to this foolishness. Wayne On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Steve Foerster <st...@hiresteve.com> wrote: > Bad news of the day: > > > http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/05/13/a-nightmare-scenario-for-higher-education/ > > It's past time for universities to devote more of their considerable > resources toward developing OERs to prevent this sort of foolishness. > Commercial publishers need universities, not the other way around! > > -=Steve=- > > -- > Stephen H. Foerster > http://hiresteve.com > http://wikieducator.org/steve > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducator<http://www.wikieducator.org> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg> | identi.ca<http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
