{"id":148,"date":"2009-03-17T07:58:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/148"},"modified":"2009-03-17T07:58:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:58:58","slug":"making-publicly-funded-work-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/148","title":{"rendered":"Making publicly-funded work open"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act signed by Obama this week includes a provision that makes permanent the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy. This policy requires NIH-funded research to put electronic copies of their peer-reviewed research into a publicly accessible and searchable online database.<\/p>\n

(Thanks to the Alliance for Taxpayer Access<\/a> for this news and work in this area.)<\/p>\n

This is a smart policy that benefits everyone and is consistent with the idea of public access to government-funded work.<\/p>\n

This is a policy for the education community to consider emulating. There are many great publicly-funded projects in education that exist in isolation and unknown to others. If these projects were publicly accessible and sharable, the benefits would accrue to the community at large. I don’t know any educators who would object to that.<\/p>\n

Even more interesting, if publicly-funded curriculum were open licensed and centrally housed and managed, this could be an important step to beginning a revolution in the textbook industry. If a large portion of the money that is spent on textbooks were redirected toward professional development, customization, and alternative delivery systems, the benefits for teachers and students would be great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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