Sharing the love: OSU librarian works to increase educational resources for students and faculty , O'Colly;
"As the cost of textbooks rises, students are forced to either comply
with textbook companies and buy their product or turn to their
classmates and share resources...
Christian Maldonado is also a junior, but he hasn’t had a class with
an OER. He said that while he thinks they would help him in college, he
can see why some classes still don’t use them.
“I can see points
on both sides,” Maldonado said. “The author who wrote [the textbook] is
selling a product, so they are entitled to set the price.”"
Issues and developments related to Intellectual Property (e.g. Copyright, Fair Use, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets) and Open Movements (e.g. Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources (OER)), examined in the "Intellectual Property and Open Movements" and "Ethics of Data, Information, and Emerging Technologies" graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. -- Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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