Projects Some major Open Content Projects:
MIT OpenCourseWare
is a project to make the MIT course contents freely available online for non-commercial use. In September 2002, the pilot site of the MIT OpenCourseWare has been opened, with more than 100 courses
out of the different MIT Departments being available by now. This effort has been widely applauded as a giant step into the future since it was announced
in April 2001. This is a brief fact sheet.Public Library of Science
PublicLibraryOfScience.org
is the website for a project committed to making scientific information freely available. They argue that although much of the work that gets published in journals is publicly funded, once it is published by a journal, the publisher holds the copyright, effectively restricting access to the information. Public Library of Science proposes that publishers be paid for the service they provide, but should no longer own the content they do not create, but only help publish. They have produced the
Public Library of Science License (PLoS License)
to further their effort.Wikipedia
Wikipedia.org is a massively collaborative effort to create an open content encyclopedia using the
GNU Free Documentation License as its legel and the WikiWiki
paradigm as its practical framework. Since January 2001, they have succeeded in creating over 230000 articles.Project Gutenberg
This is the Grandfather of freely available digital content. Project Gutenberg has been collecting texts in digital format whose copyright had run out or which had otherwise been put into the public domain since 1971.
Project GNUtemberg
The GNUtemberg project (The spelling is intentional - even the “m”...) is an initiative aiming at contacting and highlighting those who “sell printed or photocopied paper copies
of unpublished documentation covered by Free Licenses” (Quote from the English version of the site).The World Lecture Hall
The World Lecture Hall at the Center for Instructional
Technologies, University of Texas is a hub linking to university-level courses which are freely available on the web.EFF CAFE
EFF CAFE
is the “Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression” at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.The Linux Documentation Project
The Linux Documentation Project, or LDP, aims at collecting and providing documentation for
the Linux OS.
Practical Information for Open Content Authors
LDP Author Guide
Articles on Open Content
Lessons from Open Source: Intellectual Properties and Courseware by
Jan Newmarch Who owns University Web Courseware? by Jan Newmarch Open Content Licenses by Jan Newmarch
Projects on Open Source in Education
Glenn Education Front Door Glenn Learning Technologies Project at NASA
Glenn Learning Technologies Project Techquidest
Some other interesting projectsMedia in Transition at MIT
and the project articles and archives. |
