EG Weekly Tasks and Results

week of 07/13/2009

• task: Contact Ahrash Bissell about status of California#2009_Open_Source_Digital_Textbook_Initiative
  • deadline: 07/17/2009
  • status: completed (07/20/2009), see Ahrash Bissell Interview Notes - July 20, 2009

• task: Add remainder of legislation referenced on Make Textbooks Affordable and eSchool News
  • deadline: 07/17/2009
  • status: completed (08/03/2009)

• task: Edit Textbook Quadrants to reflect relative sizes of actors by market share or other impact metrics
  • deadline: 08/05/2009
  • status: in process (08/03/2009)

• task: Collect statistics on OER / EM Alt Business Models usage from web sites and contacts (Connexions, etc.)
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: not started 07/31/2009

week of 06/08/2009

• task: Clean-up the wiki and convert much of the bulleted text to narrative.
  • deadline: 06/10/2009
  • status: completed 06/19/2009

• task: Create Annotated Bibliography that illustrates what sources we have already used and which we still need to read and add to the wiki
  • deadline: subordinate to above task
  • status: not started

week of 05/11/2009

• task: Compose Educational Materials section of Report May 2009.
  • deadline: 05/15/2009
  • status: completed 05/13/2009, see Report May 2009#Educational Materials

• task: Write 3-5 page executive summary of EM Research to this point, giving brief summary of the EM industry, our findings, and the quadrant mappings.
  • deadline: 05/11/2009
  • status: completed (05/15/2009), although still editing

• task: Start to clean-up the wiki and convert bulleted text to narrative.
  • deadline: ongoing
  • status: completed (in part), updated ICP wiki site map and created History of US Textbook Publishing (05/09/2009)

• task: Add Ahrash interview notes to wiki
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (05/12/2009), see Ahrash Bissell Interview Notes

• supplemental reading: Cohen, W.M., Nelson, R.R. & Walsh, J.P., 2000. 'Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)'. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 7552. Available at: http://www.nber.org/papers/w7552 [Accessed May 12, 2009].
  • status: downloaded pdf (05/12/09)

• supplemental reading: Gans, J.S. & Stern, S., 2009. Is There a Market for Ideas? SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1334882 [Accessed May 15, 2009].
  • status: downloaded pdf (05/14/09)

week of 05/04/2009

• task: Add ORBIS report content to Pearson.
  • deadline: 05/09/2009
  • status: completed (05/07/2009), see Pearson Education

• task: Add key MITE Staff to Interview List.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (05/07/2009), see Contacts for EM#Potential Contacts

• task: Add relevant, domestic OER projects from UNESCO's OER_Wiki to Commons-based Cases in EM / Commons-based Cases in EM-K12.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (07/07/08)

• task: Read (at least) pages 1-3, 40-43 of Simba Information's 2008 National Textbook Adoptions Scorecard and 2009 Outlook and summarize for the wiki.
  • deadline: 05/09/2009
  • status: incomplete (05/04/2009)

week of 04/27/2009

• task: Find MarketResearch.com reports: The Complete K-12 Report: 2009 and Simba Information's 2008 National Textbook Adoptions Scorecard and 2009 Outlook.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (04/28/2009)

• task: Write one paragraph summaries of the Alternative Business Models in EM.
  • deadline: 05/01/2009
  • status: completed (05/01/2009)

• task: Read (at least) chapters 1, 5 & 6 of College Publishing Market Forecast 2008-2009 and summarize for the wiki.
  • deadline: 05/01/2009
  • status: in progress (05/07/2009)

• supplemental reading: Eilhard, J., 2009. 'Open Source Incorporated'. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1360604 [Accessed May 1, 2009].
  • status: completed (06/04/09)

week of 04/20/2009

• task: Elaborate on the Educational Materials#Field Definition using the learning objects literature from David Wiley.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: deprioritized (04/24/2009)

• task: Read The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age and College Textbooks: Enhanced Offerings Appear to Drive Recent Price Increases and add relevant info to the wiki.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: deprioritized (05/06/2009)

• task: Read Staying the Course and K-12 Online Learning and add relevant info to Overall Picture of the EM field.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: deprioritized (05/06/2009)

• task: Add and organize list of contacts for possible interview (expand Educational_Materials#Interviews).
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (04/21/2009), see Contacts for EM

• task: Contact Anita Elberse (see Contacts for EM#Contacted).
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (04/21/2009), awaiting response to follow-up e-mail (04/29/2009)

• task: Look at The inefficiencies of freedom by James Boyle, the Section 108 Study Group Report, the MGM v Grokster amicus briefs, The Economic Case for Creative Commons Textbooks and Articles from Insider Higher Ed and add relevant content to the wiki.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: deprioritized (05/06/2009), Boyle 2007 referenced for CCC on IP Profile of non-profit companies in EM (05/07/2009)

• task: Upload feedback notes from Friday meeting with Prof. Benkler to Report_April_2009.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (04/21/2009), see Report April 2009#Yochai Feedback 3

• task: Find copy of Wallis, J. C., Milojevic, S. Borgman, C. L. & Sandoval, W. A. (2006) The special case of scientific data sharing with education, American Society for Information Science & Technology, Austin, TX, Information Today.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (04/20/2009)

week of 04/13/2009

• task: Write report on research activity up to this point for Friday Meeting (see Report_April_2009#Educational_Materials)
  • deadline: 04/17/09, 10am
  • status: completed (04/17/09)

• task: Draft Educational_Materials#Field_definition, using Telecommunications#Field_Definition as a model
  • deadline: 04/17/09, 10am
  • status: completed (04/17/09)

• task: Locate and examine four specific HBS Case Studies by Lee Fleming: "Textbooks Online (A)", "Textbooks Online (A), (B), (C), and (D) TN", "Textbooks Online (B): TBO-- First Day of Orders", and "Textbooks Online (C)."
  • deadline: 04/17/09
  • status: waiting to hear back from Prof. Fleming's assistant (04/16/09)

• task: Find, read, and summarize AJS article, http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/210361?journalCode=ajs
  • deadline: 04/15/09
  • status: completed (04/25/09), see Overall Picture of the EM field#From Editorial Logic to Market Logic

• task: See if anything interesting at http://www.academicleadership.org/
  • deadline: 04/15/09
  • status: completed (04/10/09), waiting for follow-up on selected relevant articles

• supplemental reading: Whyte, W.F. & Whyte, K.K., 1984. 'Interviewing Strategy and Tactics'. In Learning from the Field: A Guide from Experience. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE Publications, pp. 97-112.
  • status: completed (04/25/09)

• supplemental reading: Carol's summary of first two chapters of Neil Fligstein's The Architecture of Markets.
  • status: completed (05/04/09)

week of 04/06/2009

• task: Find market information (money they make and lines of products they have related to educational materials) for the companies: Pearson, Thomson, McGraw Hill, Wiley, Houghton Mifflin, St. Martin's/Von Holtzbrinck.
  • deadline: 04/08/09
  • status: in progress (04/08); so far posted (04/09) basic information on all 6 companies from ORBIS to IP_Profile_of_Biggest_for-profit_companies_in_EM#Biggest_For-profit_Companies

• task: Summarize 3 of 5 articles suggested by Carol.
  • deadline: 04/10/09
  • status: completed (04/24); posted (04/04) Burrus 2007 to Overall Picture of the EM field#Inputs Innovations and Commons-based Cases in EM#Connexions, (04/14) Liebowitz 1985 to Overview of Economics of Intellectual Property in EM#Photocopying of Journals, and (04/24) Besen 1986 to Overview of Economics of Intellectual Property in EM#Cost/Benefit Analysis of Private Reproduction

week of 03/30/2009

• task: Answer questions outlined in Educational Materials#Study of the field by referring to initial sources bibliography--offer prose and bullet points relevant to each item, citing each source carefully
  • deadline: 04/05/2009 for Book Industry 2008 Trends data / this will be an ongoing task
  • status: in progress (04/08)

week of 03/23/2009

• task: Prepare for/participate in conference call/interview with Jonathan Emmonds of Connexions at 10am on Wednesday, 03/25/2009
  • deadline: Wednesday, 03/25/2009
  • status: completed (03/25); see Jonathan Emmons Interview Notes posted (03/29)

• task: Unify resources under the EM section in the wiki (including Links on EM)
  • deadline: Friday, 03/27/2009
  • status: in progress (03/29)

• task: Look for Book Industry Trends 2008 in Harvard Libraries
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (03/25)

• task: Answer questions outlined in Educational Materials#Study of the field by referring to initial sources bibliography--offer prose and bullet points relevant to each item, citing each source carefully
  • deadline: Tuesday, 03/31/2009 for State Legislation / this will be an ongoing task
  • status: completed (03/31); see new content on Overall Picture of the EM field#Common Policy Themes, Overall Picture of the EM field#Potentially Key Legislation, Legislation on Policy Theme 1 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 2 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 3 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 4 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 5 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 6 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 7 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 8 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 9 for EM, and updated content on Bibliography for Item 2 in EM, ICP wiki site map, IP Profile of Universities working in EM

• supplemental reading: Cowan, R. & Harison, E., 2001. Intellectual property rights in a knowledge-based economy, Maastricht: MERIT - Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology. Available at: http://ideas.repec.org/p/dgr/umamer/2001026.html [Accessed March 24, 2009].
  • status: completed (04/06)

week of 03/16/2009

• task: Attend Cooperation Research Group meeting on Monday, March 16 and report on status of other projects
  • deadline: Monday, 03/16/2009
  • status: completed (03/17)

• task: Define research schedule for the next couple weeks, with specific attention to commitments to work on-site at Berkman Squared
  • deadline: Wednesday, 03/18/2009 (or ASAP)
  • status: completed (03/17)

week of 03/09/2009

• task: Clean up Educational Materials pages on the Wiki
  • deadline: ASAP / this will be an ongoing task
  • status: completed (03/09)

• task: Maintain EM section of ICP wiki site map
  • deadline: ASAP / this will be an ongoing task
  • status: completed (03/16)

• task: Attend Cooperation Research Group meeting on Monday, March 9 and report on status of other projects
  • deadline: Monday, 03/09/2009
  • status: completed (03/09)

• task: Document and Expand on initial bibliography for EM field study on appropriate page (see Educational Materials#Bibliography addressing research outline)--submit them to Carol and decide with her which ones are relevant and need to be summarized in AcaWiki.org--this task should develop in tandem with task of answering questions in the Study of the field
  • deadline: Friday, 03/13/2009 (initial sources) / this will be an ongoing task
  • status: completed (03/19)

week of 03/02/2009

• task: Complete personal page on the wiki with contact information and this list of tasks
  • deadline: Monday, 03/02/2009 (Carol suggestion: check Brendan and Andrew personal page and follow same structure)
  • status: completed (03/02)

• task: Look at peer production website list and identify any as relevant Educational Materials Cases (Educational Materials#Cases of Study) to go deeper on--list cases, write link and a paragraph--submit them to Carol and decide with her which ones will be valuable as later Cases of Study
  • deadline: Friday, 03/06/2009 (share work with Adam)
  • status: in progress (03/16)

• task: Develop draft EM Industry Outputs Matrix similar to Genomics and Proteomics matrices in Carol's presentation from Cooperation Research Group
  • deadline: Sunday, 03/08/2009
  • status: decided on a different course of action (04/17)

• supplemental reading: David, Paul A., 1993, Intellectual property institutions and the panda's thumb: patents, copyrights, and trade secrets in economic theory and history, in: M. Wallerstein, M. Mogee and R. Schoen (eds.), Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property Protection in Science and Technology, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C
  • status: completed (04/21)

• supplemental reading: IPR course materials from Carolina
  • status: completed (03/16)

• supplemental reading: Holdren, John P. 2008. "Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being". Science, 319:424-434.
  • status: completed (03/19)

archived

• task: Attend The future is in the margins, take notes, and share with the group
  • deadline: After the event
  • status: event postponed

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