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Many in the world of scholarship believe open access will be the engine of transformation leading to more culture, more research, more discovery, and more solutions to small and big problems. This collection will help readers understand the open access movement, open data, open educational resources, open knowledge, and the opportunities for an open and transformed world they promise. Includes an overview of how it is evolving in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia; and more.

Documentation and information --- Industrial and intellectual property --- Higher education --- Graphics industry --- Open access publishing. --- Communication in learning and scholarship. --- Libraries and electronic publishing. --- Institutional repositories. --- Open educational resources.

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This book is open access and discusses the re-imagining of the higher education sector. It exposes problems that relate to the way that universities have become over-managed business enterprises which may not reflect societal, national, or global educational needs. From there, it proposes some solutions, including three innovative programs, that make universities more responsive to needs, as well as reduce their impact on the environment. The central idea of this book is developing the ‘Distributed University,’ which distributes education to where it is needed, reducing local and global inequalities in access, and emphasizing local relevance in place of large centralized campuses, with a low impact on the environment. It emphasizes the distribution of trust in place of managerialism and collaboration in place of competition. By focusing on distributing education online, this book discusses how the higher education sector can be set up to adapt to the changes in the ways we work and learn today, and which will be required to adapt to and take advantage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Higher & further education, tertiary education --- Education --- Educational strategies & policy --- Distributed university --- university managerialism --- work-based trust --- collaborative learning --- sustainable buildings --- global educational inequality --- low- to middle-income countries --- global access to internet --- overseas student fees --- higher education --- education reform --- fourth industrial revolution --- Open Educational Resources --- online learning --- international baccalaureate --- Open Access --- Educació superior --- Comunitat i universitat --- Reforma de l'educació