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What is the cost of Knowledge and what should it be?

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  Seen the hot news in Higher Education recently? 11531 International Researchers are taking a stand AND Harvard is behind them, but  what are they so upset about?   Courtesy of Giulia Forsythe via Creative Commons   Unfair commerce.  Publishing monopolies. Sound familiar?  Know anyone protesting in a similar way in the ELT context?   These kinds of issues are so much more visible today, and even governments are making strides to change the flow of information and commerce towards fairer practices and more open source approaches.  This month the Guardian reported that England has brought on Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, (…)

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Our reaction to @TechCrunch ‘s “Death to Gatekeepers in the Publishing Space”

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  The internet is flattening the world in ways we never could have imagined 10 years ago, and especially for those of us in the publishing and Education arenas.  I was blown away by a recent article by John Biggs that spoke specifically to this evolution where he challenged the monopoly of the “goliaths” with this very simple truth: “We are, after all, just talking bits shipped to devices and $1,000 made in 1,000 ninety-nine cent increments is the same as $1,000 made in one-hundred $10 increments.” If we look at ELT publishing specifically, most of the current “standards” for testing (…)

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