Another open course - from openED

The openED course: Business and Management Competencies in a Web 2.0 World.
Begins April 26, 2011 http://www.open-ed.eu/. I went to an introductory chat for this openED course today. Minutes are here without personal information of participants (which is too bad because as usual, the participants are interesting!: http://goo.gl/Yknas The course is always available, but by doing it during a scheduled session, there will be two facilitators on hand for every module. All the OER people will love that this course is entirely out in the open.

OER - Finding free ebooks

Stephen Downes is participating in an Oxford-style debate "Should OER favour commercial use?" He mentions "Flooding – this is the enclosure practice employed in the Google search results. It becomes impossible to find the original free resource when the market is flooded with commercial alternatives." Yes! Even at OpenLibrary), it feels like you have to knock yourself out to find an item that's available to anyone from any place. However I think I have a partial solution to the example that Downes uses - a quotation from Locke. I tried the search in Google Books - and clicked "free Google eBooks" from the search tools on the left side of the screen. That helps.