The Battle for Open: How Openness Won and Why it Doesn’t Feel Like Victory, by Martin Weller | Books | Times Higher Education

"Martin Weller’s book [The Battle for Open: How Openness Won and Why it Doesn’t Feel Like Victory] is written in a beguilingly approachable style, reminiscent of 101 position papers and blog posts aimed at thrashing out the role of the modern university within contemporary society. However, there the similarities end. What we have here is a clear and unequivocal account of how higher education is being dismantled in order to monetise that most precious of assets, namely the contents of academics’ heads...."