Open or closed web?

A few links (now ancient history!)

• Who Owns Your Ideas? AAUP Academe magazine cover story (2002-02s)  [new link] [available on JStor]
• the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative: AAUP story [new link] [https://ocw.mit.edu/] [available on JStor]
• bob's ACIT (Acdemic Committee on IT, now defunct; does anyone remember WebCT?) lobbying pages

Hal Abelson [leader in MIT's open source teaching materials policy] visited Villanova (2003) invited by then librarian director Joe Lucia, an advocate of the "public space". Little discussion followed.

2021-04:
 The Nation article: Platforms Like Canvas Play Fast and Loose With Students' Data