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	*Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA		*Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
	*Host institution for OER project: [http://oli.web.cmu.edu/ Open Learning Initiative]		*Host institution for OER project: [http://oli.web.cmu.edu/ 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." [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=OER_useful_resources/Development_and_publishing_initiatives#Institutional_initiatives (OER Wiki)]		**"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." [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=OER_useful_resources/Development_and_publishing_initiatives#Institutional_initiatives (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 [[Bibliography for Item 8 in EM\|(HÃ¥klev 2009)]].

	'''[http://www.fhda.edu/ Foothill-De Anza Community College District]'''		'''[http://www.fhda.edu/ Foothill-De Anza Community College District]'''

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	* Convener of the [http://oerconsortium.org/ Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources]		* Convener of the [http://oerconsortium.org/ 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)		* 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." [[~~Bibliograph~~ for Item 4 in EM\|(Plotkin & Kanter 2006, 8)]]		*:"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." [[Bibliography for Item 8 in EM\|(Plotkin & Kanter 2006, 8)]]

	'''[http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ Global Text Project]'''		'''[http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ Global Text Project]'''

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	* Convener of the [http://oerconsortium.org/ Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources]		* Convener of the [http://oerconsortium.org/ 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)		* 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."		*:"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." [[Bibliograph for Item 4 in EM\|(Plotkin & Kanter 2006, 8)]]


	'''[http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ Global Text Project]'''		'''[http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ Global Text Project]'''

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	*Host institution for OER project: [http://oli.web.cmu.edu/ Open Learning Initiative]		*Host institution for OER project: [http://oli.web.cmu.edu/ 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." [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=OER_useful_resources/Development_and_publishing_initiatives#Institutional_initiatives (OER Wiki)]		*:"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." [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=OER_useful_resources/Development_and_publishing_initiatives#Institutional_initiatives (OER Wiki)]

			'''[http://www.fhda.edu/ Foothill-De Anza Community College District]'''
			* Former Chancellor is Martha Kanter, current Under Secretary for Education
			* Former Chairman of the Board is [[Contacts for EM\|Hal Plotkin]], current Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Education
			* Convener of the [http://oerconsortium.org/ 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."


	'''[http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ Global Text Project]'''		'''[http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ Global Text Project]'''

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	*Licenses: Uses Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License		*Licenses: Uses Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

	'''[http://www~~.hup~~.harvard.edu/ Harvard University ~~Press~~]'''		'''[http://www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University]'''
	*Location: Cambridge, MA, USA		*Location: Cambridge, MA, USA
	*~~On 17 July 2009~~, ~~HUP announced that it was making 1,000~~ of ~~its back catalog academic books available on [http://www.scribd.com/harvard_press 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.~~ [[Bibliography for Item 8 in EM\|(~~Beja~~ 2009)]]		*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. [[Bibliography for Item 8 in EM\|(Mitchell 2008)]] The Graduate School of Education followed suit in June 2009 [[Bibliography for Item 8 in EM\|(News Editor 2009)]]

	'''[http://harvardbusiness.org/ Harvard Business School Press (HBSP)]'''		*Academic Presses
	*~~Location: Cambridge, MA, USA~~		**'''[http://harvardbusiness.org/ Harvard Business School Press (HBSP)]'''
	*~~Strategy~~: 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.		**: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.
			**'''[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/ Harvard University Press]'''
			**:On 17 July 2009, HUP announced that it was making 1,000 of its back catalog academic books available on [http://www.scribd.com/harvard_press 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. [[Bibliography for Item 8 in EM\|(Beja 2009)]]

	'''[http://www.mit.edu/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology]'''		'''[http://www.mit.edu/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology]'''

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	**[http://rup.rice.edu/about/ltp?ltp=1 Long Tail Press]		**[http://rup.rice.edu/about/ltp?ltp=1 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.		**: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.

			'''[http://oi.uchicago.edu/ 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%. [[Bibliography for Item 8 in EM\|(Oriental Institute Publications Office 2009; Wiley 2009)]]

	'''[http://www.oup-usa.com/us Oxford University Press]'''		'''[http://www.oup-usa.com/us Oxford University Press]'''

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	*:"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." [http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/news_faqs?q=node/14 (FAQs)]		*:"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." [http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/news_faqs?q=node/14 (FAQs)]
	*Licenses: Uses Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License		*Licenses: Uses Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

			'''[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/ Harvard University Press]'''
			*Location: Cambridge, MA, USA
			*On 17 July 2009, HUP announced that it was making 1,000 of its back catalog academic books available on [http://www.scribd.com/harvard_press 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. [[Bibliography for Item 8 in EM\|(Beja 2009)]]

	'''[http://harvardbusiness.org/ Harvard Business School Press (HBSP)]'''		'''[http://harvardbusiness.org/ Harvard Business School Press (HBSP)]'''
	*Location: Cambridge, MA, USA		*Location: Cambridge, MA, USA
	*Strategy: HBSP offers a potential alternative ~~for-profit~~ EM 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.		*Strategy: 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.

	'''[http://www.mit.edu/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology]'''		'''[http://www.mit.edu/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology]'''
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	*Host institution of OER project: [http://ocr.mit.edu/ MIT OpenCourseWare Initiative] ''(see [[#OpenCourseWare Consortium]])''		*Host institution of OER project: [http://ocr.mit.edu/ MIT OpenCourseWare Initiative] ''(see [[#OpenCourseWare Consortium]])''
	*Academic Press: http://mitpress.mit.edu/		*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".		*: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".

	'''[http://www.rice.edu/ Rice University]'''		'''[http://www.rice.edu/ Rice University]'''

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	* 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)		* 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 ==		== Universities and Projects ==
	'''[http://www.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon University]'''		'''[http://www.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon University]'''
	*Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA		*Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
	*Host institution for OER project: [http://oli.web.cmu.edu/ Open Learning Initiative]		*Host institution for OER project: [http://oli.web.cmu.edu/ 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." [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=OER_useful_resources/Development_and_publishing_initiatives#Institutional_initiatives (OER Wiki)]		*:"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." [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=OER_useful_resources/Development_and_publishing_initiatives#Institutional_initiatives (OER Wiki)]

			'''[http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ Global Text Project]'''
			*Joint project of the [http://www.terry.uga.edu/ Terry College of Business of the University of Georgia] and [http://www.daniels.du.edu/ 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." [http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/news_faqs?q=node/14 (FAQs)]
			*Licenses: Uses Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

	'''[http://harvardbusiness.org/ Harvard Business School Press (HBSP)]'''		'''[http://harvardbusiness.org/ Harvard Business School Press (HBSP)]'''

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	== Universities ==		== Universities ==
			'''[http://www.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon University]'''
			*Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
			*Host institution for OER project: [http://oli.web.cmu.edu/ 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." [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=OER_useful_resources/Development_and_publishing_initiatives#Institutional_initiatives (OER Wiki)]

	'''[http://harvardbusiness.org/ Harvard Business School Press (HBSP)]'''		'''[http://harvardbusiness.org/ Harvard Business School Press (HBSP)]'''
	*Location: Cambridge, MA, USA		*Location: Cambridge, MA, USA

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	*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." [http://www.wisc-online.com/faq.asp (FAQ)]		*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." [http://www.wisc-online.com/faq.asp (FAQ)]
	*Copyright: All learning objects remain copyrighted and source-code must be purchased.		*Copyright: All learning objects remain copyrighted and source-code must be purchased.

			'''[http://www.yale.edu/ Yale University]'''
			*Location: New Haven, CT, USA
			*Host institution for OER project: [http://oyc.yale.edu/ 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 ==		== OpenCourseWare Consortium ==