Jonathan Poritz's Shared Materials Page

Shortcuts to parts below with much more information, including editable/remixable versions where possible: [Please note: the full article texts on this page are posted merely as a convenience for the reader (and author!). In many cases, I do not own the copyright, and even when I do, I remind visitors that there are laws regarding the use (and Fair Use [see this wonderful article produced by the the EFF if you're unsure]) of copyrighted materials. Please read, quote, print out, and generally use in any way these materials only in a manner consistent with relevant laws and general scholarly good taste. In particular, when you wish to reprint large portions of any of these articles, I believe you are obligated to ask permission of the copyright owner. I would certainly appreciate it if you mention to me when you quote and/or link to even short excerpts, whether or not it is an article of which I remain the copyright owner. Thank you!]

Articles:

  1. Academic Freedom in Online Education
  2. Today's Context Demands Use of OER
  3. Blockchain Pixie Dust
  4. Ivanka's Syllabus
  5. Academic Governance on the Virtual Shop Floor
  6. The Tenured IT Expert? Technology experts should have the academic freedom to speak on behalf of what's best for education, not just a university's bottom line.
  7. Open Access to Technology: Shared Governance of the Academy's Virtual Worlds
  8. Universal Gates in Other Universes
  9. Sharing the Power Over, and the Responsibility for, Information Technology Decisions in Academia
  10. Information Technology Wants to Be Free
  11. On entropy-preserving stochastic averages
  12. Who searches the searchers? community privacy in the age of monolithic search engines
  13. Intrusion-Tolerant Middleware: The Road to Automatic Security
  14. Trust[ed| in] computing, signed code, and the heat death of the Internet
  15. Hash woes
  16. Secure intrusion-tolerant replication on the Internet
  17. Social preferences and price cap regulation
  18. Around polygons in $\RR^3$ and $S^3$
  19. The moduli space of boundary compactifications of $SL(2,\RR)$
  20. Boundary compactifications of $SL(2,\RR)$ and $SL(2,\CC)$
  21. Ford and Dirichlet domains for cyclic subgroups of $PSL(2,\CC)$ acting on $H^3_\RR$ and $\partial H^3_\RR$
  22. Parabolic vector bundles and Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections over a Riemann surface

Books

  1. Open Workbook of Cryptology: A project-based introduction to crypto in Python
  2. Creative Commons Certificate for Educators and for Librarians: The Audiobook
  3. Lies, Damned Lies, or Statistics:  How to Tell the Truth with Statistics
  4. Education is Not an App: The future of university teaching in the Internet age
  5. Yet Another Introductory Number Theory Textbook  (Cryptology Emphasis Version)
    [Please note: what follows is information about the first version of this book. A more current version is in the process of being written,
    the PDF of this new version is available, and whose source files will be posted probably in August of 2015; come back then if you want the recent version in a form you can modify yourself.]

Talks (those which have been saved in some form that can be shared):

  1. Awesome Attributions and Lovely Licensing Statements: How OER Practitioners Can Use Creative Commons Licenses With Style and Substance
  2. How many OER are there?
  3. Choose and Use Creative Commons Licenses for Open Educational Resources
  4. More OER for Free!
  5. Creative Commons Licensing, In Vitro and In Vivo
  6. NFTs: A great way to support digital artists on the blockchain, or a nifty tool for grifters?
  7. NFTs: A great way to support digital artists on the blockchain, or a nifty tool for grifters?
  8. Some Technicalitites Behind NFTs: Notes for a Discussion of NFTs, Copyright, and CC Licenses
  9. At A Distance: Articulating A Higher Ed Perspective on Remote Instruction
  10. Edge Cases for Adaptation and Remix Permission: An Advanced Seminar for OER Practitioners
  11. The CC Certificate
  12. Creative Commons Licensing and Open Educational Resources
  13. CSUP OER Minigrant Awardees Basic Info Session
  14. Open Education As The Practice of Freedom for Both Students and Faculty
  15. Creative Commons Licensing Workshop for CCD
  16. Spring 2020 ColoMATYC Conference, Open Educational Resources for Mathematics: the First 2,500 Years
  17. Two Faculty Journeys with Open Educational Resources
  18. The Troubling Prevalence of Apple's Eye of Sauron at Open Education Meetings
  19. oerXiv.org: A dating site for aspiring OER Collaborators
  20. Tenure and Promotion in OER
  21. From Faculty Member to OER Advocate: Reflections on Two Journeys
  22. Getting the JITERs: Just-In-Time Educational Resources as a Mode of OER-enabled Pedagogy
  23. OPEN TEXTBOOKS for CSU-Pueblo: Access, Affordability, and Academic Success
  24. Introduction to Open Educational Resources for the CSU-Pueblo Faculty Academy
  25. Introduction to Creative Commons Licensing: The Key to Using the 5Rs of OER with Confidence
  26. The Legal Technology of Open: Sharing with Creative Commons Licenses
  27. Education in [Block]Chains
  28. Creative Commons Licensing — The Key Legal Technology Enabling OER
  29. Collective Impact: System Approaches to OER
  30. The Best Things in Life Are Free — And That Includes Math Books
  31. Open Educational Resources: Current and Future Activities and Prospects For Pueblo, the System, and the State
  32. Colorado's OER Initiative
  33. CCHE Presentation: Open Educational Resources in Colorado
  34. Open Educational Resources Backgrounder at Otero Junior College
  35. Open Access Week 2018 at The University of Denver, Open Educational Resources: Not Just "Free, As In Beer" But Also "Freedom, As In Academic."
  36. Open Access Week 2018 at The University of Denver, Open Educational Resources: the First 2500 Years
  37. CSU-Pueblo Convocation 2018 Academic Session: Open Educational Resources
  38. Fun With Crypto -- Keeping Secrets [From Ancient Greek Warriors, Enemies of the Roman Empire, Medieval English Kings, and Modern Superpowers]
  39. Roll Your Own Textbook
  40. OER Council Contribution to Colorado Department of Higher Education Report to the Joint Budget Committee of the Colorado General Assembly
  41. Open Educational Resources for Public Higher Ed in Colorado
  42. Algebraic Turing Machines with Applications to Quantum Computation
  43. Digital Security HOWTO: Protect your Data, Communications, and Activities, & Painlessly Integrate Teaching Simple Security Into Classes
  44. Technology and the Future of Higher Equation: The 'Net as Neoliberal Dystopia [Yes, that should have been "Higher Education", but this misprint in the conference program was amusing to a mathematician.]
  45. Encrypt Your Email and Hard Drive: A Practical and Mathematical Introduction to Protecting Your Data from Criminals and Surveillance
  46. Information Technology Wants to Be Free the Colorado State University—Pueblo on 25 September 2014.

Reports for Governments [Colorado and the European Union] and Corporations [IBM]:

  1. Colorado Rises: Transforming Educational Practices through Open Educational Resources, 2021
  2. Colorado Rises: Transforming Educational Practices through Open Educational Resources, 2020
  3. Colorado Rises: Transforming Educational Practices through Open Educational Resources, 2019
  4. COLORADO OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES COUNCIL: Report to the Joint Budget Committee and The Education Committees of the General Assembly -- Open Educational Resources in Colorado
  5. Property attestation--scalable and privacy-friendly security assessment of peer computers
  6. Alternative computational devices and architectures
    • With Giovanni Cherubini, Heike Riel and Gian Salis
    • Published [internally to IBM] 2003
    • Unfortunately, this is an IBM Confidential research report.
  7. Full Design of Dependable Third Party Services
  8. First specification of APIs and protocols for the MAFTIA middleware
  9. Specification of dependable trusted third parties

Patents:

  1. Attestation of computing platforms
  2. Method and system to authenticate an application in a computing platform operating in Trusted Computing Group (TCG) domain
  3. Method and device for verifying the security of a computing platform

Handouts/Worksheets/Posters:

  1. Copyright Cheat Sheet for Higher Education [in the United States]
  2. Creative Commons Cheat Sheet for Higher Education [in the United States]
  3. Modernized, more active version of UNESCO OER Icon
  4. OER Breaking the Chains of Textbook Cost
  5. OER One-Pager for Fact2Fac, Oct 2019
  6. CSU-Pueblo: A DOER Campus By 2028 — Whitepaper and Proposal, September 2019
  7. CSU-Pueblo OER One-Pager for Convocation Week Exhibit Hall, Fall 2019


NOTE1: I was happy to contribute this piece to Inside Higher Ed and would be used to assigning to them the copyright in situations like this ... but I never had any discussion — and certainly not a written agreement — about the issue with them before the article appeared. Afterwards, I have asked them and they haven't answered specifically the issue about copyright ownership. Since copyright law is one of my side areas of interest, I have to say that in my inexpert opinion, the copyright would probably default to me: the only thing going against that would possibly be the works for hire doctrine, but I wasn't really hired to contribute my part to the article.... Anyway, if IHE wants to assert copyright ownership, I would be happy to talk to them about it!

NOTE2: Despite extensive research, it remains unclear to me who owns the copyright on MAFTIA deliverables — perhaps it is some branch of the EU? — and the MAFTIA web site does not clearly answer this question. In cases where this could be a concern, I suggest contacting one of the senior (former) MAFTIA organizers or perhaps the EU Information Society and Media Directorate-General (see this web site).