Andrew, thanks for the report. I am finding more and more open source materials such as papers and articles on institutional websites that can substitute well for book compilations. As you know, at AU, at least for the present, savings through using OER are not being passed on to students, but that may change. What I am doing is also creating parallel open non-credit courses (OCW) which use the OER for the benefit of the publc generally.

Thank-you Nadir for sharing your presentation. Great comments Louis and Merdan! There is my three cents:)

The industry has shifted dramatically to cloud based delivery platforms for everything from music to software applications. In large part this, combined with other significant advances in technology capabilities (network, application design, mobile, etc) is serving to mitigate some of the very reasons why piracy exists in the first place.

For example, in the music industry it is now so convenient to legally purchase a single song and have it immediately rendered to every device owned with accompanying artwork and other artifacts, that it has created sufficient value for most consumers so as to make piracy inconvenient by comparison. Indeed we can see that in this example, although music piracy still exists, if anything it has become a supporting component of the music ecosystem - people may still illegally download songs, but there is sufficient value for ‘99 cents’ that they will still go to a legitimate music service and download it. In addition, the shift towards small, consumable, incremental pricing - purchasing individual songs for 99 cents, vs being required to purchase an entire album for $14.99 has again reduced the incentives and benefits of downloading the music illegally. It is important also to note the market now shifting significantly to an on-demand ‘radio’ model where curated playlists (Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music) are again of a value that cannot be realised through piracy. Lastly, cloud storage services are rendering the use of ‘blank cds’ obsolete. Many computers are no longer available with CD drives. In short, there is no action that needs to be taken; technology has completely overtaken the existing legislation, policy and approaches undertaken by government and rendered it largely irrelevant.

 Have a great Holidays!

Bozena

I am curious which service allows the purchase of a song and permits its use on any device DRM free. Spotify does offer something similar, but you are only renting the song. Once your membership expires, the song cannot be played on any device.

I am not an expert in this domain:( but I've found this reading interesting:)

Happy reading! 

10 Best (and DRM-free) Online Music Stores

http://www.techhive.com/article/155512/online_music_drm.html

Hello Leah,

I enjoyed reading through your RLO Green ICT Technologies.  It was interesting to try to compare how the organization that I work with match the various criteria and the different strategies that you have listed in your RLO.  Unfortunately I don’t think we did that well   We are still need work that is for sure.

In terms of the content, I found that it was nice to have a series of reading and exercise activities, which helped further understand the content that was presented.  I did find the navigation straight forward but I did have a bit difficult when trying to follow a few things, but that might have just been me or word press.  I did run into one problem where I couldn’t click on the link to list major supporting organizations.  But that is pretty minor.

With regards to the objectives that you identified, I believe I met them all even though I didn’t read every external resources (such as books) as you had a lot of them (which is good).

Thanks again for putting together this RLO, I’ll definitely have to take a look at the office and see what I can do to make it more green.

Patrick