The very first academic article I worked on has been published by Tech Trends. It’s called Free: Why Authors are Giving Books Away on the Internet. For the article, David Wiley and I interviewed ten authors who had made some or all of their books available for free on the Internet. Most of the authors [...]

I’ve posted on my dissertation before. The full version is now available here. Here’s a little summary of what the dissertation is all about. What Deseret Book placed eight books online for free download. All of these were “backlist” titles. This study tracked what happened as a result of those books being available. When The [...]

As part of an Open Education class last year, David Wiley, Jared Stein, Aaron Johnson and I worked together to write an article explaining different levels of “openness” in “open educational resources.” As I blogged about early, this article was recently published by Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning. A version of [...]

I mentioned previously that David Wiley and I had an article published last month. A version of this article is now available through BYU’s Repository. It’s available here. Citation for article: Hilton, J. Wiley, D. (2010). “The creation and use of Open Educational Resources in Christian higher education.” Christian Higher Education, Volume 9: No. 1: [...]

I’m happy to report that two articles I have helped write were published this past month. The articles were: • Hilton, J. Wiley, D. (2010). “The creation and use of Open Educational Resources in Christian higher education.” Christian Higher Education, Volume 9: No. 1: pp. 49-59. and • Hilton, J. Wiley, D. Stein, J., Johnson, [...]

Not sure that anyone will want to read this; however, if you’re researching the influence of free digital books on print sales the review of literature may be helpful to you. Below is a version of the first two chapters of my dissertation. I’ve had to take out a few parts because some of the [...]

I took a brief vacation from blogging, but still wanted to mention a special issue of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. The issue is focused on “Openness and the Future of Higher Education.” I was happy to be a guest editor of this issue along with David Wiley. I learned [...]

My trip to the Open Education Conference has allowed me to catch up on some blogging that I’ve been neglecting. Something I’ve been thinking about is the law of diminishing returns. As you might remember from Econ 110, this law states that the more one gets of something the less valuable each additional unit may [...]