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News & ArticlesSofia Pilot Publishes Eight "Open" CoursesFOOTHILL COLLEGE, Los Altos Hills, CA--Content for eight courses is now available online for free through the Sofia open content initiative, thanks to the joint contributions of faculty, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Foothill-De Anza Community College District, and can now be accessed at the Course Gallery. Learn more... You may also see an overview of pilot. Google Offers Index of Public Domain WorksMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - November 3, 2005. Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine on Thursday will begin serving up the entire contents of books and government documents that aren't entangled in a copyright battle over how much material can be scanned and indexed from five major libraries. Learn More.... 'Open Courseware' Idea Spreads MIT's plan to give away course materials online gains a few adherentsThe Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jeff Young, March 4, 2005. Nearly four years after the start of MIT's OpenCourseWare project, several colleges met to unveil their own plans to publish extensive sets of course materials -- such as syllabi, lecture notes, and quizzes -- and encourage anyone to use them freely. There is one major difference: No one other than MIT is pledging to give away every course. And most of the newcomers expect to convert only a handful of courses per year to an open format. Learn More.... We're Creative Commonists, BillThe following article reports that Bill Gates recently called copyright reformers "modern day communists." It contains responses from Creative Commons Executive Director, Glenn Otis Brown, and Chairman of the Board of Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig. Learn More.... At the End of The Day, We Will Have Given it All Away: The Convergence of Open Content Open Source SoftwareOverview of the Sofia pilot at the EDUCAUSE and League for Innovation in Community Colleges Conferences, by Vivie Sinou & William Pritchard, 2004. See PowerPoint. More Professors Teach by Using Other Colleges' Online CoursesCHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, From the issue dated October 15, 2004—John R. Marks, a professor at Zane State College, doesn't have enough spare time to convert his classroom courses to a form that could be delivered online. And the college, a two-year technical institution in Ohio, doesn't have the resources to develop as many online courses as it would like. Learn more... MIT Makes 500th Course Available Online, and FreeMenlo Park, CA—Five hundred courses from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are now available for free online, thanks to a joint project by the Hewlett Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and MIT. The MIT OpenCourseWare project provides free, searchable access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. This extraordinary project is also creating an efficient, standards-based model that other institutions can use to openly share and publish their own course materials. Learn More...Launch of Sofia PilotFOOTHILL COLLEGE, Los Altos Hills, CA. - March, 2004—Sofia, an open content initiative, is being launched by Foothill - De Anza Community College District, under the leadership of Foothill College's Distance Learning program with support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Modeled after MIT's Open CourseWare Initiative, Sofia will establish a system that supports the publication and free exchange of community college-level content on the World Wide Web. Learn More...
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