Keynote speech delivered by Professor Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford, at the Education in a Changing Environment conference that took place this week at the University of Walford. Hall's theme is open access and open resources in learning. Interesting description of how copyright and patents work in rent-seeking closed systems, like pharmaceuticals, and Disney, and how he was offered the rate of $3000 for the right to distribute his own paper by PDF. He challenges the perception of 'education as a market' and links this to the cost of education, the wages students need in order to recover their debt, and the long-term cost to public service.
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