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Open thinking is open

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Open Thinking – a new site/community for anyone who is interested in open content, open source software, open publishing practices or open content formats – is now open. Here’s our current definition of open thinking: Open thinking is the tendency of an individual, group or institution to give preference to the adoption of open technologies [...]

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Open Access: Why should we have it?

Saturday, November 25, 2006

David Wiley quotes from and links to a paper entitled “Open Access: Why should we have it?” As someone who promotes open access, open source software, open data formats and other forms of open thinking, it is rewarding to see that there is tangible evidence of the value of these practices. The cases studied in [...]

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Wikibookwiki – a hybrid publishing model

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Just saw this via Brian Lamb: Stewart Mader has published a book Using Wiki in Education, which has some interesting sounding (I haven’t actually read the book yet, so this is one of those Read The Fine Article reviews) case studies of wikis being integrated into a variety of settings. Stewart’s publishing model is an [...]

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