Table of Contents

• • Introduction

• Intellectual Property

  • James Boyle, "The Why of Intellectual Property"
  • James Boyle, "Thomas Jefferson Writes a Letter"

• Free Software

  • Richard Stallman, "What is Free Software?"
  • Richard Stallman, "The GNU Project"

• Open Source

  • Eric Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
  • Eric Raymond, "Homesteading the Noosphere"

• Open Content

  • David Wiley, "About the Open Publication License"
  • David Wiley, "Open Content: The First Decade"

• Defining Free

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt, "The Four Freedoms Speech"
  • Richard Stallman, "Four Freedoms"
  • Erik Moller, "Freedom Defined"
  • Bruce Perens, "Debian Free Software Guidelines"

• Defining Open

  • Bruce Perens, "The Open Source Definition"
  • David Wiley, "Open Content"
  • OKFN, "Open Definition"
  • David Wiley, "The Access Compromise and the 5th R"
  • David Wiley, "Open Definitions, Specificity, and Avoiding Bright Lines"

• Open Source Software Licenses

  • GNU General Public License
  • BSD License
  • MIT License
  • Apache License
  • Comparison of Open Source Licenses

• Open Content Licenses

  • Creative Commons Licenses
  • GNU Free Documentation License
  • Open Publication License

• OpenCourseWare

  • Charles Vest, "Disturbing the Educational Universe: Universities in the Digital Age — Dinosaurs or Prometheans?"
  • History of MIT OCW
  • MIT OCW Evaluation Report (2005)
  • MIT Reaches OCW Milestone
  • David Wiley, "OpenCourseWars"

• Open Educational Resources

  • UNESCO Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing
  • Cape Town Open Education Declaration
  • UNESCO, "2012 Paris OER Declaration"
  • Wiley, Bliss, and McEwen, "Open Educational Resources: OER Literature Review"
  • Boston Consulting Group, "Open Educational Resources: The OER Ecosystem"

• Open Textbooks

  • Nicole Allen, "Open Textbooks: A Cover to Cover Solution: How Open Textbooks are the Path to Affordability"
  • Frydenberg and Matkin, "Open Textbooks: Why? What? How? When?"

• Research in Open Education

  • OER Research Hub
  • Open Education Group
  • Marshall Smith, "Ruminations on Research on OER"

• The Economics of Open

  • Yochai Benkler, "Coases Penguin, or Linux and The Nature of the Firm"
  • Yochai Benkler, "Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials"
  • Yochai Benkler, "'Sharing Nicely': On shareable goods and the emergence of sharing as a modality of economic production"

• Open Business Models

  • Eric Raymond, "The Magic Cauldron"
  • OSI, "Open Source Case for Business"
  • Various, "A Summer 2014 Conversation on Business Models in Open Education"
• • Readings to Consider Including in the Next Release