The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has sponsored the publication of a book titled "Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content and Open Knowledge" which is now available via MIT Press in hardcopy and also for free download under a Creative Commons license. You can find information about the book at
http://mitpress.mit.edu/opening_up_education/which includes a link to download the whole book in electronic form; you can also find the table of contents and the option for individual chapter downloads at
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11309&mode=tocThe book is quite wide-ranging and the chapter authors include many names that will be familiar to the CNI community; I have a chapter in it titled "Digital Libraries, Learning Communities and Open Education".
Clifford Lynch Director, CNI
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