Opening Up Education is an MIT Press book edited by Toru Iiyoshi and Vijay Kumar; the subtitle is "The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge." The free ebook is, appropriately, available in an open access ipaper edition (Flash format) or via pdf files. (A print version may also be purchased from MIT Press.) The book includes a useful Foreword by John Seely Brown and valuable Introduction and Conclusion sections by the editors; the core of the book contains 27 chapters by diverse authors, many of them leaders in their fields.  ____JH____"Given the abundance of open education
initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available
online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education
to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the
diversity of tools and resources already available—from well-packaged
course materials to simple games, for students, self-learners, faculty,
and educational institutions—we have yet to take full advantage of
shared knowledge about how these are being used, what local innovations
are emerging, and how to learn from and build on the experiences of
others. Opening Up Education argues that we must develop not
only the technical capability but also the intellectual capacity for
transforming tacit pedagogical knowledge into commonly usable and
visible knowledge: by providing incentives for faculty to use (and
contribute to) open education goods, and by looking beyond
institutional boundaries to connect a variety of settings and open
source entrepreneurs."