Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:10:00 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [192.100.21.10] (HELO [10.0.142.147]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPS id 54261065 for cni-announce@cni.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:52:48 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:49:06 -0700 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: opening up education book Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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=toc The 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