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27 Jun

CC-BY vs CC-BY-SA and How to Define Open Content

Posted by cel4145 in copyleft, oer, open content, open source, share alike

As an open source and open content advocate, I am interested in the debates in the OER community about licensing, particularly CC-BY (attribution only) vs. CC-BY-SA (attribution and share alike). To admit my bias, I am, and have always been, a copyleft advocate, so I'm a card carrying member of that latter group of those that believe in share alike.

Now, there are certainly many good reasons to choose either license depending on one's priorities in license choice. Nevertheless, I always chuckle when the CC-BY advocates condemn CC-BY-SA while championing that CC-BY allows for users to make choices about licenses they wish to use, whereas CC-BY-SA doesn't allow for licence choice. As Sam Varghese pointed out during a resurgence of a similar debate (2007) in the open source community between the GPL and BSD people,

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09 Jan

Results--Survey on Open Source Adoption and Usage

Posted by scott in blog & cms, cyberculture, drupal, educational software & courseware, higher education, new technologies, open content, open source, survey, techculture

Thanks to all of you who participated in the Survey on Open Source Adoption and Usage. We have included the results of the survey (with any identifying comments redacted to ensure confidentiality) on the OSAAC website, located here: http://rhetoricalcommons.org/OSAAC/node/22. We have done some data analysis and are also providing the raw data in Microsoft Excel (.xls) format. In the near future, we will include an analysis of these findings in a joint publication.

Once again, thank you for your participation.

Ben McCorkle, Asst. Professor of English, OSU Marion, mccorkle.12[at]osu.edu

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19 Nov

Survey of Open Source Adoption and Usage

Posted by scott in cfp, higher education, new technologies, open content, open source, pedagogy, shcolarship, survey, techculture & cyberculture

Greetings. We are conducting a preliminary online survey aimed at assessing the role of open source software in the scholarly and pedagogical practices of the Rhetoric & Composition and English Studies community. As a scholar and teacher of Rhetoric & Composition and/or of English Studies, you are being invited to participate in this survey. Please take a few moments to respond to this very brief ten-question survey on the subject at the link provided below.

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07 Oct

access delayed is access denied

Posted by bleckb in open access, open content

InsideHigherEd.com reports that American Anthropology Association is making digital material free, if you can wait 35 years for the latest bits.

The American Anthropological Association [is making] “a groundbreaking move” that would provide “greater access for the global social science and anthropological communities to 86 years of classic, historic research articles.” The problem, critics say, is that the emphasis should have been on the word “historic,” because those 86 years worth of articles aren’t the most recent 86 years. Rather the association will apply its new policy for its flagship journal, American Anthropologist, only 35 years after material was published. The association has created open access to the scholarship of the ’50s and ’60s.

Kinda dulls the notions of being on the cutting edge of things.

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01 May

An Open Content Research Writing Text

Posted by pz in open content, textbooks

To all kairosnews-ers:

I'd like to offer an open content research-writing text that I have been putting online over the past few weeks. See if you have any use for any of it in your classes. It is a work in progress, and I am still working on the formatting of the chapters. If you like something that is not formatted the way you'd like, help yourself to it and modify the text as you wish.

The text is available at www.pz-writing.net/methods.

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