On 8/17/06, Elizabeth Stark <estark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To those who were not at last night's core meeting (and even those who were),
> we
> are looking to organize a campaign around the granting of patents to
> Blackboard
> and encouraging schools to adopt alternatives. Please read on, as this is
> clearly an important issue for anyone an in educational setting.
>
> Ideas on how proceed with the campaign are of course also welcome.
I'd really hope we can form some sort of national push for this, so
that it would be a lot easier to pool our collective efforts and be
able to refer administrators and professors to a single source. At
Northeastern this is one of the things we're pretty keen on doing, and
the alternative we're looking at is MIT OpenCourseWare.
We're rolling this into our efforts to encourage professors to set
free their course materials and any books that they've authored, so
perhaps elements of what we're doing can be used as part of a 'best
practices,' assuming we see any sort of success.
Christopher
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