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		<title>The Short-Term Influence of Free Digital Versions of Books on Print Sales</title>
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It&#8217;s here.
The article I&#8217;ve been so excited to see published. David Wiley and I wrote this article and  I am grateful to The Journal of Electronic Publishing for publishing it. Although there is much to be done in the area of how giving away digital copies influence print sales I think this article makes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The four R’s of openness and ALMS Analysis: Frameworks for Open Educational Resources</title>
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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 &#8220;openness&#8221; in &#8220;open educational resources.&#8221; As I blogged about early, this article was recently published by Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning. A version of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The creation and use of Open Educational Resources in Christian higher education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned previously that David Wiley and I had an article published last month. A version of this article is now available through BYU&#8217;s Repository.
It&#8217;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: pp. 49-59. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two New Articles Published</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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, A. (2010). “The four R’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissertation Draft&#8211;first two chapters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not sure that anyone will want to read this; however, if you&#8217;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&#8217;ve had to take out a few parts because some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Commons Christmas Book</title>
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This past year I wrote a book about how to get more of the true meaning of Christmas in our lives at Christmas time. Unfortunately, the way things worked out it was not published this year; however, the publisher has graciously made a free electronic copy of it available (site registration required). Even better they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnhiltoniii.org/creative-commons-christmas-book/</link>
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		<title>Special Issue of IRRODL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Openness and the Future of Higher Education.&#8221; I was happy to be a guest editor of this issue along with David Wiley.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deseret Book Downloads Exceed 100,000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the download project at http://deseretbook.com/free is winding down, I&#8217;m please to report that over 100,000 books have been downloaded. I expect soon to have more information on the sales of these books so that we can measure whether the free downloads had any impact on sales.
In a future study it would be very interesting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnhiltoniii.org/deseret-book-downloads-exceed-100000/</link>
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		<title>Update on Free Books from Deseret Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An update to this blog post. In the first six weeks of tracking book downloads, 30,000 books have been downloaded from http://deseretbook.com/free. It&#8217;s too early to tell much more; however it appears that this number is surprisingly high. More to come.
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		<link>http://www.johnhiltoniii.org/update-on-free-books-from-deseret-book/</link>
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		<title>Free Books by Deseret Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deseret Book has released free digital versions of 8 books. Check out http://deseretbook.com/free. Part of what we are trying to study is how &#8220;free digital downloads&#8221; affect &#8220;physical print sales.&#8221; I&#8217;ll keep you posted.
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