Colleges and universities should embrace the concept of increased openness in the use and sharing of information to improve higher education. That is the core recommendation of Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, a new report from the Committee for Economic Development (CED). The report was produced by CED’s Digital Connections Council (DCC), a group of information technology experts that advises CED’s business leaders on cutting-edge technologies. ...
Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education examines the impact of openness on colleges and universities. The report identifies some of the potential gains from making higher education more open and recommends actions that policy makers and institutions of higher education can take to harness its benefits. ...
The following are among the key recommendations of Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education:
Governments should: ...
Maintain and extend policies increasing access to government funded research and facilitating the non-commercial use of materials for educational purposes.
Colleges and universities should: ...
Establish open-source digital repositories and require faculty to provide the institution with a non-exclusive license to the products of their research. ...
The report specifically supports the NIH policy, as well as expanding the NIH policy to all non-classified research at other federal agencies.
See also our past post on the draft report, released last month.
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 11/10/2009 03:48:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
