New open online course network includes schools of any size
The open online course movement has taken off in a big way this year, but until now it has been limited mainly to elite universities that have struck…
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Open source: The new normal in higher education?
M.L. Bettino is a sort of open-source technology hipster. He was into open source way before it was mainstream.
Open source textbook publisher projects $1M in savings
College students in some of the most heavily attended courses in the country will eclipse $1 million in textbook savings after a Rice University-based publisher had 13,000 open-source…
Popular video forecasts the end of traditional higher education
In Bill Sams’ future, only the children of the ultra-wealthy will attend on-campus college courses, the student loan industry will collapse, and Google will build an omniscient online…
Google pumps cash into university’s open source lab
Google has propped up one of higher education’s leading open-source development programs with $1.9 million, including this month’s $300,000 gift, which will support the creation of free software…
University looks to remove barriers to open textbooks
Low-cost, open-content textbooks are universally popular on college campuses, but two burning questions have stunted the open textbook movement: Where can faculty and students find these resources, and…
Realizing the power of ‘open’ to transform higher education
As the concept of open source has evolved and expanded over the past two decades from difficult-to-manage productivity and organizational tools to a vast, friendly, and rapidly growing…
Web developers unleash code in hopes that students will take on bookstores
The creators of a popular online textbook service are arming college students with open source code that might give rise to low-cost textbook sites and create competition for…
Apple iBooks 2 license agreement gets icy reception in higher education
Advocates for open-license textbooks in higher education, while largely unhappy with Apple’s iBooks 2 platform, say the technology behemoth has done a favor for their movement: Apple’s pricey,…
California lawmaker seeks to create open-source library
California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg announced Dec. 13 that he will push for legislation to create an online open-source library to reduce the cost of course…