OpenMichigan Reading Group

Open.Michigan Reading Group

Papers for Discussion

 * April 2010
 * Doctoral dissertation by Justin K. Johansen, Brigham Young University. "The Impact of OpenCourseWare On Paid Enrollment In Distance Learning Courses", http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3317.pdf
 * Online discussion: https://open.umich.edu/blog/2010/04/01/oer-impact-paid-enrollment/
 * PPT presentation, [[Media:SI521Lecture9Sustainability.odp|OER Sustainability]], by Joseph Hardin
 * Notes from Reading Group session ([[Media:20100413-OpenMichiganReadingGroup-notes.pdf|PDF]])


 * March 2010
 * “The Meaning of Open,” a blog posting by Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management at Google http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html
 * Online discussion: https://open.umich.edu/blog/2010/03/04/what-does-it-mean-to-be-open/
 * PPT presentation, "What should it mean to be 'Open'?" by Jude Yew
 * Notes from Reading Group session ([[Media:20100318-OpenMichiganReadingGroup-notes.pdf|PDF]])


 * February 2010
 * “Open Textbook Proof-of-Concept via Connexions”, http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/633
 * Online discussion: https://open.umich.edu/blog/2010/02/11/connexions-freeculture-opentextbooks/


 * December 2009
 * Shrum, W. (2005). "Reagency of the Internet, or how I became a guest for science," Social Studies of Science. 35 (5). 723-54l, http://sss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/35/5/723
 * Butrous, G. (2008). "International cooperation to promote advances in medicine," Annals of Thoracic Medicine. 3(3). 79-81, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700441/
 * Online discussion: https://open.umich.edu/blog/2009/12/04/reading-group-16-december-2009/


 * November 2009
 * James Boyle “The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain”, http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/boyle.pdf
 * Marc Parry “Open Courses: Free, but Oh, So Costly” (which appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Ed on October 11, 2009), http://tinyurl.com/yasencs
 * Online discussion: https://open.umich.edu/blog/2009/11/16/openmichigan-reading-group-2/


 * October 2009
 * John Seely Brown and Richard Adler “Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0″, http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume43/MindsonFireOpenEducationtheLon/162420
 * James Boyle “The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain”, http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/boyle.pdf
 * Online discussion: https://open.umich.edu/blog/2009/10/02/openmichigan-reading-group/