In an effort to reduce costs for students, the College of Education and Human Development has created this catalog of open textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members.
Open Textbook Catalog @ University of Minnesota
5 June 2012
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Defining Fair Use
6 February 2012The Association of Research Libraries has released this code of best practices for fair use of copyrighted materials in academic research.
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In Victory for Open-Education Movement, Blackboard Embraces Sharing – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
27 October 2011Professors who use Blackboard’s software have long been forced to lock their course materials in an area effectively marked, “For Registered Students Only,” while using the system. Today the company announced plans to add a “Share” button that will let professors make those learning materials free and open online.
The move may be the biggest sign yet that the idea of “open educational materials” is going mainstream, nearly 10 years after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology first began giving away lecture notes online. Blackboard made the change after college officials complained that the company’s software, which more than half the colleges in the country use for their online-course materials, was holding them back from trying open-education projects.
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Seth Godin: The Wealth of Free (Semi-Animated)
4 May 2011via OpenCulture
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Profs Publish Guide to Copyright Issues of Multimedia Projects
19 November 2010A new study, titled “Copying Right and Copying Wrong With Web 2.0 Tools in the Teacher Education and Communications Classrooms,” attempts to educate students about both the appropriate and inappropriate ways to use copyrighted materials that are available to mass audiences on the Internet.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Fair Use: Codes of Best Practices
10 November 2010The Center for Social Media at American University have created a series of Codes of Best Practices in order to establish standards for fair use, including links to Best Practice codes from other organizations.
- Best Practices in Fair Use of Dance-related Materials
- Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
- Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
- Best Practices in Fair Use for Open CourseWare
- Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication
- Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use in Teaching for Film and Media Educators
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Statement of Fair Use Best Practices for Media Studies Publishing
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Go Ahead, Jailbreak Your Smartphone
28 July 2010The Library of Congress issues new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use”
27 July 2010
Every three years, the Library of Congress has the thankless task of listening to people complain about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA forbade most attempts to bypass the digital locks on things like DVDs, music, and computer software, but it also gave the Library the ability to wave its magical copyright wand and make certain DRM cracks legal for three years at a time.
This time, the Library went (comparatively) nuts, allowing widespread bypassing of the CSS encryption on DVDs, declaring iPhone jailbreaking to be “fair use,” and letting consumers crack their legally purchased e-books in order to have them read aloud by computers.
via Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use”.
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Center Releases New Guide to Navigating Copyright Law
24 June 2010Two professors at American University provide direction on using copyrighted work in communications research.
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ePub Bud – Publish and share your own digital books in the open ePUB format!
21 April 2010Digitize your Real Children’s Books
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- Mail your children’s books
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Although ePub Bud can be used for any sort of book, we can only digitize children’s books.
Please realize that for copyright reasons we CANNOT return any books you send to us.
via ePub Bud – Publish and share your own digital books in the open ePUB format!.
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