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Name: Michael Feldstein - Open Source, Economics, and Higher Education
ID: m19875
Language: English (en)
Summary: Michael Feldstein's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he writes about how open source projects work from an economic perspective. Drawing on the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase and Harvard economics professor Yochai Benkler, he will provide some perspective on how open source projects manage to defy conventional wisdom about economics and self-interested behavior, and gives some questions that universities can ask when considering whether a particular open source software project is likely to be successful.
Subject: Social Sciences
Keywords: Economics of OER, higher education, Michael Feldstein, Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Source Software (OSS), OSS and OER in Education Series
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Ken Udas (keu10@psu.edu)
Copyright Holders: Ken Udas (keu10@psu.edu)
Maintainers: Ken Udas (keu10@psu.edu), Cecelia Merkel (cbm12@psu.edu)
Latest version: 1.3 (history)
First publication date: Feb 28, 2009 5:50 am -0600
Last revision to module: Mar 8, 2009 7:26 am -0500

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