Whether Universities Should Open Their Informations or Not

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Today we stand in firm affirmation of the resolution that universities should make all academic work they produce, including scholarly articles, course handbooks and recorded lectures, available to the general public. But before we move onto our contentions. Let us define some terms. We define universities as public universities with government funding over 80%. Also limit to dangerous subjects as law, music, humanities, language arts and etc. Dangerous subject would most likely include science and medical things. This resolution basically supports the Open Educational Resources [OER] that are openly available for use by educators and students, without an accompanying need to pay royalties or licence fees. In fact, the emergence of open licences has been driven strongly by a desire to protect a copyright holder’s rights in environments where content can so easily be copied and shared via the Internet without asking permission. Now, we would like to give two contentions that support this resolution. Firstly, the quality of citizens’ knowledge is most likely to rise. Secondly, Universities benefits from this resolution. Lastly, not only the citizens, but the students of each universities could benefit as well. Firstly, the quality of citizens' knowledge is most likely to rise generally. OER has the potential to advance the delivery of education by increasing the availability of relevant learning materials, and stimulating the active engagement of teaching staff and students in creating learning resources. As more institutions around the world are, at different levels, requiring their educators to share more materials under open licences, experiences clearly demonstrate that this opening of intellectual property is having the effect of improving the quality of teaching and learning materials. This happens both because educators tend to invest more time in improving

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