Some quotes and thoughts on Open Leadership, by Charlene Li Take advantage of user generated content – Doritos Super Bowl 2009 commercial. “Respect that your customers and employees have power. Once you accept this as true, you can begin to have a real, more equal relationship with them. Without this mind-set, you will continue to [...]

So this blog is mostly about openness … but my interests do range outside of this area. One of my favorite things to do is to read books, and then jot down a couple of pages of “highlights” from the books — takeaways that meant a lot to me. I’ll be doing this here a [...]

I noticed an interesting article recently called: At SPARC-ACRL Forum, Reality Check on Open Access Monographs Go check it out.

First Monday just published an article that David Wiley and I wrote. We are currently working on an expanded version of this article now that we have access to an additional year’s worth of data. Flat World is certainly an interesting company! Here’s the abstract: “Many college students and their families are concerned about the [...]

I was honored to give a speech at the BYU McKay School of Education Commencement today. Below is the transcript. It was connected to my dissertation and is titled, “Freely ye have received, freely give” (Matthew 10:8). Those not familiar with the mission of Brigham Young University or its sponsoring institution, The Church of Jesus [...]

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 [...]

For a long time I’ve been hopeful that people would read some of the academic research I’ve been working on. Although I’m new to academia, I’ve heard that one of the dangers of academic publishing is that it’s very possible that nobody will read what you write. Then again, if people will read what you [...]

It’s here. The article I’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 [...]

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 [...]