EDUCAUSE | EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Intellectual Property

E-Books in Higher Education: Nearing the End of the Era of Hype?

elilly — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:06:43 -0600

What is the reality with respect to e-books? Will e-books finally take off? After nearly two decades of talking about how e-books are right around the corner, have we finally reached the corner?

Get Me Out of the Middle!

elilly — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:29:13 -0600

"File sharing serves as a tuning fork for an entirely new orchestra of digital communication, interaction, and social expectation. We in higher education must provide a clear, calm, ringing voice in defining
the terms of the new world when we believe our goals and values are important not only to us but to society."

Software Patents: Why Should We Care?

drupal — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:39:19 -0500

The author discusses how a recent shift in patent case law means that the ideas and methods underlying software can now be protected and assigned ownership.

Open Content and the Emerging Global Meta-University

drupal — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:29:52 -0500

Open-access projects are stimulating a broader open-content movement, which in turn is leading to the emergence of a meta-university—an accessible, dynamic, and communally constructed framework of open materials and platforms on which much of higher education worldwide can be constructed or enhanced.

The Future for Higher Education: Sunrise or Perfect Storm?

drupal — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:36:48 -0600

The technology-driven disruptions of the knowledge economy offer higher education an enormous opportunity to remake ourselves - this time around collaboration, exploration, and engagement with the wider world.

A Review of Creative Commons and Science Commons

drupal — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:56:58 -0500

The author gives an overview of the creative commons and science commons licenses and publishing options.

In Praise of Sharing

drupal — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:46:31 -0500

The author discusses the transformation on the college campus from the free exchange of ideas to the growing movement to lock down those ideas as "property".

Copyright, Civil Rights, and Middle Age

drupal — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:26:04 -0500

The author discusses the political issues that are attached to the current fight over digital copyright and file sharing technologies.

Intellectual Property Ownership in Distributed Learning

drupal — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:51:22 -0500

The author discusses the issue of faculty intellectual property rights and the digital course materials they may create in a distributed learning environment.

Digital Asset Management Systems

drupal — Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:55:30 -0600

The author discusses how he sees digital asset management systems could grow in potential for use by higher education institutions. He feels they can eventually help to address 4 key areas 1) asset mining; 2) automation; 3) intellectual property; and 4) engagement.