IP Profile of Universities working in EM

Research Questions

• What are the 5 top Universities in this field?
• Correlate them with their main outputs (Data, Narratives, Tools)
• Understand and identify cases where these universities are "experimenting" or "adopting" commons based approach. Are they adopting OA policies, for instance? Are they adopting Social Responsible License approaches?
• Identify these cases and treat them as entities that will also be placed in our mapping device (the quadrants)
• Identify what universities are the "Microsofts" of the field and what companies are the "IBMs" of the field (Use the questionnaire to guide your research when appropriate - Carol will select specific relevant questions)

Universities and Projects

Carnegie Mellon University

• Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Host institution for OER project: Open Learning Initiative
  • "A collection of "cognitively informed", openly available and free online courses and course materials that enact instruction for an entire course. The project adds to online education the crucial elements of instructional design grounded in cognitive theory, formative evaluation for students and faculty, and iterative course improvement based on empirical evidence. A primary objective is to build a community of use that will play an important role in ongoing course development. The courses are developed in a modular fashion to allow faculty at a variety of institutions to deliver the courses as designed, or to modify the content and sequence to fit their needs." (OER Wiki)
  • (Business Model) Development of the courses is funded my research grants to study online learning effectiveness. The interface records data of all interactions on the site, which allows for learning specialists to study how the system works. The site could also be used under license to professors at other universities by providing a custom login, which would be another freemium-style funding opportunity (HÃ¥klev 2009).

Foothill-De Anza Community College District

• Former Chancellor is Martha Kanter, current Under Secretary for Education
• Former Chairman of the Board is Hal Plotkin, current Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Education
• Convener of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
• First community college / university to draft a specific policy on supporting faculty's option of OER (Board Policy 6141 -- Approved 12/6/04)

  "The Foothill-De Anza Community College District supports the creation, use, accessibility, and ongoing maintenance of public domain-based learning materials in accordance with established curriculum standards for educational purposes of the District, using the commonly accepted legal definition of public domain materials. The goals of this policy are to provide students with learning materials that reside in the public domain to augment and/or replace commercially available educational materials, including textbooks where appropriate, to create sustainable academic resources for students, faculty and staff, and to provide opportunities for professional growth of district employees involved in these activities. The Chancellor will provide periodic reports, not less than annually, to the Board that detail the progress made toward accomplishing the goals delineated by this policy." (Plotkin & Kanter 2006, 8)

Global Text Project

• Joint project of the Terry College of Business of the University of Georgia and The Daniels College of Business of the University of Denver

  "The Global Text Project, with plans to create a free library of 1,000 electronic texts for students in developing world. The library will cover the range of topics typically encountered in a university’s undergraduate programs. The global academic community and global corporations will be engaged in creating and sponsoring this library." (FAQs)

• Licenses: Uses Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Harvard University

• Location: Cambridge, MA, USA
• Open Access Policy: Since February 2008, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences maintains a worldwide license to disseminate the scholarly publications of its faculty. The faculty retain copyright but must allow the university to publish their work openly online. (Mitchell 2008) The Graduate School of Education followed suit in June 2009 (News Editor 2009)

• Academic Presses
  • Harvard Business School Press (HBSP)

    HBSP offers a potential alternative EM business model selling HBS Cases in six-month limited access electronic downloads, hard copies, and the ability to purchase copyright permission to duplicate the materials. For instance: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=SMR265&referral=2342.

  • Harvard University Press

    On 17 July 2009, HUP announced that it was making 1,000 of its back catalog academic books available on Scribd, joining other universities like MIT and NYU on the site. The goal was to offer digital copies of books that would usually have small print runs, while also adding the content to Scribd's database to combat piracy of those books. However, HUP is continuing to charge full price for books that must be read using Scribd's proprietary platform. (Beja 2009)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Location: Cambridge, MA, USA
• Host institution of OER project: MIT OpenCourseWare Initiative (see #OpenCourseWare Consortium)
• Academic Press: http://mitpress.mit.edu/

  MIT Press employs a traditional publishing model focusing on science and engineering texts. It publishes approximately 200 new books a year and 40 academic journals and sells "a higher proportion of our products outside the United States than any other U.S. university press".

Rice University

• Location: Houston, TX, USA
• Host institution for OER project: Connexions (see Commons-based Cases in EM#Cases)
• Academic Press: http://ricepress.rice.edu/

  Print-on-demand (PoD) publishing model (through QOOP, which uses OER Connexions project to source material. Author's retain copyright but must use Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

  • Long Tail Press

    Long Tail Press is an initiative to publish out-of-print books using PoD, seeking to publish books accepted by other publishers but, for some reasons, never printed.

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

• Location: Chicago, IL, USA
• Strategy: Since 2004, the Oriental Institute has published PDFs of all of its research publications on its web site, allowing readers to download 1 free copy of the text. The Electronic Publications Initiative has increased sales of the print versions of their books by 7%. (Oriental Institute Publications Office 2009; Wiley 2009)

Oxford University Press

• Location: New York, NY, USA
• Higher Education Revenue 2008 (estimated): $550,260,000 (Mickey and Meaney 2008, 173)
• About: "OUP USA publishes at a variety of levels for a wide range of audiences in almost every academic discipline. OUP USA produces approximately 500 titles each year, of which 250 are scholarly research monographs, and imports close to 800 such works from the U.K. and branch offices. OUP USA has 3,300 scholarly books in print and stocks imports from other OUP offices around the world." (Mickey and Meaney 2008, 174)
• Strategy: "Like other higher education publishers, OUP USA is looking to technology and custom publishing as new avenues for its business. Oxford’s custom publishing program allows instructors to choose scholarly content to meet their needs and those of their students. Instructors choose chapters or content from a single textbook or several volumes organized as they wish. If they choose to supplement an Oxford text with their own materials, OUP USA prints and shrink wraps the material. (Mickey and Meaney 2008, 174)

Wisc-Online Resource Center

• Location: Wisconsin, USA
• About: "Wisc-Online is a consortium of the 16 two-year Wisconsin Technical Colleges formed to support the development and distribution of learning objects authored and technically developed by faculty and multimedia Flash designers." (FAQ)
• Copyright: All learning objects remain copyrighted and source-code must be purchased.

Yale University

• Location: New Haven, CT, USA
• Host institution for OER project: Open Yale Courses

  "Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University." Courses are provided under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

OpenCourseWare Consortium

List of all OCWC Member Universities in the US

"An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware." ('About Us')

University Press Directors on Free Access

copied from https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/4978.html:

Position Statement From University Press Directors on Free Access to Scholarly Journal Articles:

1. The undersigned university press directors support the dissemination of scholarly research as broadly as possible.

2. We support the free access to scientific, technical, and medical journal articles no later than 12 months after publication. We
understand that the length of time before free release of journal articles will by necessity vary for other disciplines.

3. We support the principle that scholarly research fully funded by governmental entities is a public good and should be treated as
such. We support legislation that strengthens this principle and oppose legislation designed to weaken it.

4. We support the archiving and free release of the final, published version of scholarly journal articles to ensure accuracy and
citation reliability.

5. We will work directly with academic libraries, governmental entities, scholarly societies, and faculty to determine appropriate
strategies concerning dissemination options, including institutional repositories and national scholarly archives.

Meredith Babb
Director
University Press of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Thomas Bacher
Director
University of Akron Press
Akron, OH

Michael Burton
Director
University Press of New England

Walter Hildebrandt
Director
Athabasca University Press
Edmonton, Alberta

Jane Hoehner
Director
Wayne State University Press
Detroit, MI

Donna Livingstone
Director
University of Calgary Press
Calgary, Alberta

Phil Pochoda
Director
The University of Michigan Press
Ann Arbor, MI

Mike Rossner
Executive Director
The Rockefeller University Press
New York, NY

Sandy Thatcher
Director
Penn State University
University Park, PA

Bruce Wilcox
Director
University of Massachusetts Press
Amherst, MA

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