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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As the download project at http://deseretbook.com/free is winding down, I’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 [...]

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’s too early to tell much more; however it appears that this number is surprisingly high. More to come.

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 “free digital downloads” affect “physical print sales.” I’ll keep you posted.

I’m pleased to link to a First Monday article I wrote that focuses on motivations for creating derivative works. The article grew out of an earlier post I made (or maybe it was vice -versa). Special thanks to David Wiley for his advice and encouragement and to BYU’s department of Instructional Psychology and Technology for [...]

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 [...]