To Share or Not to Share: Is That the Question? (EDUCAUSE Review. © 2010 Maria H. Andersen. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License ( EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 4 (July/August 2010): 40-49 Maria H. Andersen (busynessgirl@gmail.com) teaches math at Muskegon Community College, where she is also the Learning Futurist for the LIFT Institute. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page.
When we discuss terms like open textbook, open courseware, and open source, a common theme emerges: sharing content that might otherwise be protected under intellectual property laws. When I began writing this article about open faculty, it seemed like a straightforward topic. All the faculty I spoke to could think of at least a few contexts in which they would not be willing and/or able to share or participate openly. How has this framework of openness changed in the digital age? Note. Curation. THE PARTICIPATION DIVIDE: Content creation and sharing in the di. Good intentions: improving the evidence base in support of shari.
Re-purposing & re-use of digital university-level content & eval. Quality principles for digital learning resou. Three Objections to Learning Objects - Norm Friesen. Managing and Sharing e-Learning Resources: How repositories can. The extensive and growing use of online resources and materials in learning and teaching presents new opportunities and benefits to institutions. Technology has made the sharing and re-use of resources easier, and institutions and their staff can exploit the benefits within their working practices. Alongside this, institutional policies and processes may need updating to take into account the corresponding changes in management approach and systems provision. Management strategy for educational resources in FE & HE Institutions reviewing the opportunities to gain from these developments should assess the benefits of managing and sharing online resources for teaching, learning and research, taking a fresh approach to copyright, finding incentives for staff to engage, and deciding what information systems are required to support the business processes involved.
Institutional repositories provide a managed online system where the institution’s resources can be both stored and accessed.