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As I read Jim Whitehurst's The Open Organization, as well as articles about initiatives involving educators and students in open source projects and communities, I imagined…
From the advent of the printing press to the emergence of the Internet, knowledge has become increasingly abundant and accessible. But as we move into the future, I ponder how…
One of the more effective ways to advance an agenda is to attach requirements to grant funding. The U.S. Department of Education has an interest in broadening the impact of…
This article provides an overview of free and open source software (FOSS) that may be of use to students and researchers in academia, based on my own experience in psychology…
While I read Opensource.com article " Goodbye Henry Ford, hello open organization," a line describing traditional organizational structures as "rigid and slow to adapt" with…
A large amount of scientific research is published in scientific journals, and there has been a lot of debate around offering open access to these articles, along with the…