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Anne Margulies on Open Courseware

URL 1 = http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=3015

URL 2 = http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=3020


=Context to URL 1=

Anne Margulies talks about the MIT Open CourseWare project, and introduces the 
The Economics of Open Content Symposium:

The session further includes:

New Models of Creative Production in the Digital Age
Collaboration and the Marketplace
Cathy Casserly, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Peter B. Kaufman, Intelligent Television
Paul Courant, University of Michigan
Eric von Hippel, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America

Opening welcomes from MIT Open CourseWare, the Hewlett Foundation, and Intelligent Television are followed by business analyses of scholarship and user-driven innovation from University of Michigan Professor of Economics and Public Policy and former Provost Paul Courant and MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Eric von Hippel. Consumer Federation of America Director of Research and Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society Fellow Mark Cooper presents his research on the economics of emerging collaborative modes of digital production in media and communications.

Welcoming Remarks
Anne Margulies, MIT Open CourseWare
Cathy Casserly, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Peter B. Kaufman, Intelligent Television

'''New Models of Creative Production in the Digital Age'''
Paul Courant, University of Michigan
Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management

'''Collaboration and the Marketplace'''
Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America and Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society


=Context to URL 2=

The Economics of Open Content Symposium:
'''The Economics of Knowledge as a Public Good
The Economics of Open Courseware'''
Anne Margulies, Open CourseWare, MIT
Steve Carson, Open CourseWare, MIT
Shigeru B. Miyagawa, Open CourseWare, MIT

MIT Open CourseWare Director Anne Margulies, MIT Open CourseWare Senior Strategist Steve Carson, and MIT Professor of Linguistics and MIT Open CourseWare advisor Shigeru Miyagawa explain the seemingly counterintuitive benefits of making all MIT courses available online to anyone anywhere at no cost.

Industry Study: The Economics of Open Courseware
Anne Margulies, MIT Open CourseWare
Steve Carson, MIT Open CourseWare
Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT Open CourseWare


=General Context=

On January 23-24, 2006,  Intelligent Television hosts the Economics of Open Content symposium at MIT to bring together representatives from media industries, cultural and educational institutions, and legal and business minds to discuss how to make open content happen better and faster.

With the support of the Hewlett Foundation and MIT Open Courseware, Intelligent Television brings representatives of commercial media industries (publishing, film, music, television, video, software, education/courseware, gaming) together with representatives of cultural and educational institutions who are innovative in this area and legal and business minds in the academy who are studying how to make this happen faster and better. New Yorker economics columnist and bestselling author (The Wisdom of Crowds) James Surowiecki keynotes at the Cambridge meeting, with a presentation entitled 'Openness as an Ethos.'

Intelligent Television has been conducting a year-long investigation into the economics of open content. This project is a systematic study of why and how it makes sense for commercial companies and noncommercial institutions active in culture, education, and media to make certain materials widely available for free, and also how free services are finding new (sometimes commercial) ways of becoming sustainable. The project builds upon written work that Intelligent Television recently completed with the support of the Mellon Foundation and Ithaka on Marketing Culture in the Digital Age, and also upon work now being completed as part of the Mellon Foundation-supported Commission on Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The project also informs new economic models that Intelligent Television is establishing for its documentary work.


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