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Free learning: Essays on open educational resources and copyright
Downes, Stephen

PublishedSeptember 2011
Type of workCollection of essays
PeriodicalPages 1-249
PublisherNational Research Council Canada

ABSTRACT
There is a story to be told about open source, open content, and open learning from the point of view of the person desiring access to these things, rather than from the point of view of the provider. This book is a collection of my writings on open educational resources and open access to learning.

Keywords assessing OER sources · copyright · Creative Commons · OER debate · OER policy · OER reuse · open access · open education

RefereedDoes not apply
Rightsby-nc-sa/3.0
URLhttp://www.downes.ca/files/books/FreeLearning.pdf
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