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Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:24:34 +0000
From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <KOTLas_at_email.unc.edu>
Subject: TL Infobits -- October 2007
TL INFOBITS October 2007 No. 16 ISSN: 1931-3144
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Editor's Note: Permission to Use Infobits
Clearing Up Copyright Confusion
Statistics on the State of Education, U.S. and Worldwide
Educause Live! Seminars
Halloween Links: Gravestone Studies
Recommended Reading
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CLEARING UP COPYRIGHT CONFUSION
"The fundamental goals of media literacy education--to cultivate
critical thinking about media and its role in culture and society and
to strengthen creative communication skills--are compromised by
unnecessary copyright restrictions and lack of understanding about
copyright law, as interviews with dozens of teachers and makers of
media literacy curriculum materials showed. . . . [As a result,]
teachers use less effective teaching techniques, teach and transmit
erroneous copyright information, fail to share innovative instructional
approaches, and do not take advantage of new digital platforms."
In "The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy," the report's
investigators argue that, much as documentary film makers have done,
"media literacy educators from K-12 to university level can articulate
their own shared understandings of appropriate fair use in a code of
practice." Such a code could provide guidance for educators and clear
up misconceptions that hinder the legitimate use of copyrighted works.
The report, published in September 2007 by the American University
Center for Social Media, in partnership with the Washington College of
Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and the
Media Education Lab of Temple University, is available at
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/files/pdf/Final_CSM_copyright_report.pdf.
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STATISTICS ON THE STATE OF EDUCATION, U.S. AND WORLDWIDE
The Sloan Consortium's "Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online
Learning," a report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher
education, is "aimed at answering some of the fundamental questions
about the nature and extent of online education." These questions
include:
-- How many students are learning online?
-- Where has the growth in online learning occurred?
-- What are the prospects for future online enrollment growth?
-- What are the barriers to widespread adoption of online education?
The report, and previous years' editions, can be downloaded at no cost
at http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/index.asp.
The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is a consortium of institutions and
organizations committed "to help learning organizations continually
improve quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs according
to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part
of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at
any time, in a wide variety of disciplines." Sloan-C is funded by the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. For more information, see
http://www.sloan-c.org/.
. . . .
Each year, since 2001, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) publishes the "Education at a Glance" report, an
"annual round-up of data and analysis on education, providing a rich,
comparable and up-to-date array of indicators on education systems in
the OECD's 30 member countries and in a number of partner economies."
Main areas covered in the reports are:
-- participation and achievement in education
-- public and private spending on education
-- the state of lifelong learning
-- conditions for pupils and teachers
The current and all past "Education at a Glance" reports are available
online at no charge at
http://www.oecd.org/document/30/0,3343,en_2649_39263294_39251550_1_1_1_1,00.html.
The OECD's mission is "to help its member countries to achieve
sustainable economic growth and employment and to raise the standard of
living in member countries while maintaining financial stability -- all
this in order to contribute to the development of the world economy."
As one of the world's largest publishers in the fields of economics and
public policy, OECD monitors, analyzes, and forecasts economic
developments and social changes in trade, environment, agriculture,
technology, and taxation. For more information contact: OECD, 2 rue
Andre Pascal, F-75775, Paris Cedex 16 France; tel: +33 1.45.24.82.00;
fax: +33 1.45.24.85.00; email: webmaster_at_oecd.org; Web:
http://www.oecd.org/.
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EDUCAUSE LIVE! SEMINARS
EDUCAUSE Live! is a "series of free, hour-long interactive Web seminars
on critical information technology topics in higher education. Each
seminar is delivered live using online audio and video/image
presentation technology, allowing you to interact directly with the
host and guests through your Web browser." Past seminars are archived
and available for online viewing. Past seminars on information
technology topics include:
"Cyberinfrastructure: A Campus Perspective on What It Is and Why You
Should Care"
"IT Governance: Establishing Who Decides"
"Top-Ten Challenges of the Academic Technology Community"
"Developing and Implementing Successful Intellectual Property Policies
for Online Courses"
"The Information Commons and the Future of Innovation, Scholarship, and
Creativity"
You can access forthcoming and past seminars at
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=34&bhcp=1.
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher
education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
The current membership comprises more than 1,900 colleges,
universities, and educational organizations, including 200
corporations, with 15,000 active members. EDUCAUSE has offices in
Boulder, CO, and Washington, DC. Learn more about EDUCAUSE at
http://www.educause.edu/.
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HALLOWEEN LINKS: GRAVESTONE STUDIES
This year our annual Halloween article provides links to two gravestone
studies websites:
Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS)
http://www.gravestonestudies.org/
The AGS "was founded in 1977 for the purpose of furthering the study
and preservation of gravestones. AGS is an international organization
with an interest in gravemarkers of all periods and styles."
The Farber Gravestone Collection
http://www.davidrumsey.com/farber/index.html
"The Farber Gravestone Collection is an unusual resource containing
over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000
gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern
part of the United States. The late Daniel Farber of Worcester,
Massachusetts, and his wife, Jessie Lie Farber, were responsible for
the largest portion of the collection. This online version of the
Farber Gravestone Collection is sponsored by the American Antiquarian
Society."
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RECOMMENDED READING
"Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or
that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or
useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits
subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for
possible inclusion in this column.
"The Basement Interviews: Peter Suber"
October 2007
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2007/10/basement-interviews-peter-suber.html
Journalist Richard Poynder writes on information technology and online
rights issues. In a series of interviews he speaks with leading
advocates in the open source movement. One of his recent interviews was
with Peter Suber, a leading proponent of the open access movement and
author of SPARC Open Access Newsletter and Open Access News. (Suber's
SPARC OPEN ACCESS NEWSLETTER is available at
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm.)
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