What is Open Content

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Open content usually refers to research or educational material that can be distributed and re-used freely. The types of content can range from previously published books and articles to educational software simulations and lesson plans. Key concerns for those who provide or use open content include ensuring that the material can be easily adapted, integrated, and reconfigured in new online settings. Learn more in: Mining User Activity Data In Higher Education Open Systems: Trends, Challenges, and Possibilities

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An initiative based on the concept of the IT industry’s Open Source Movement, this type of content refers to future or current freely available information on the Internet. Wikipedia and MIT’s Open Courseware are good examples of open content. Learn more in: Plagiarism, Ghostwriting, Boilerplate, and Open Content

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Open content is material, such as documents, images, and audio or video presentations that may be freely and legally reproduced, edited, excerpted, expanded, and republished. Learn more in: New Opportunities in Libraries: Open Access, Open Content, and Collection

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As indicated in Wikipedia, this term “describes any kind of creative work (including articles, pictures, audio, and video) or engineering work (i.e., open machine design) that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying and the modifying of the information by anyone […]” (Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_content). Learn more in: Cyberspace's Ethical and Social Challenges in Knowledge Society

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A piece of content which is provided to viewers with an open-type license. Learn more in: Measuring the Effectiveness of Wikipedia Articles: How Does Open Content Succeed?

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Open content describes the creative work which allows copying and modifying with no need to get extra permission from the licensors, such as works licensed under Creative Commons licenses. Learn more in: Examining Open Source Software Licenses through the Creative Commons Licensing Model