Posts tagged ‘MOOCs’
Corporate open source
Intellectual property and the struggle over value
by Christopher Newfield / RP 181 (Sept/Oct 2013) / Commentary
I began to worry about open source when the corporate world stopped worrying and learned to love open source. For me the turning point was a drinks party in Paris in 2003, thrown by the wife of an American advertising executive temporarily based in the city. First, a bit of context for the party and …
Commercial enclosure
Whatever happened to open access?
by John Holmwood / RP 181 (Sept/Oct 2013) / Commentary
The language of openness is powerful and persuasive. Applied to the practices of government, it purports to be about transparency and holding politicians to account. Applied to public services, it purports to be about the evaluation of performance to facilitate decision-making by their users. Applied to publicly funded research in universities, it purports to be …
Corporate open source
Intellectual property and the struggle over valueby Christopher Newfield / RP 181 (Sept/Oct 2013) / Commentary
I began to worry about open source when the corporate world stopped worrying and learned to love open source. For me the turning point was a drinks party in Paris in 2003, thrown by the wife of an American advertising executive temporarily based in the city. First, a bit of context for the party and …
Commercial enclosure
Whatever happened to open access?by John Holmwood / RP 181 (Sept/Oct 2013) / Commentary
The language of openness is powerful and persuasive. Applied to the practices of government, it purports to be about transparency and holding politicians to account. Applied to public services, it purports to be about the evaluation of performance to facilitate decision-making by their users. Applied to publicly funded research in universities, it purports to be …
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