There’s a great conversation happening on The Chronicle of Higher Education blog, in the comment thread of the article entitled “Publishers Criticize Federal Investment in Open Educational Resources.”I want to capture some of it here, particularly the exchange I shared with someone named RWEJD. Feel free to add you comments…
Guns, penguins, and open textbooks
Cable Green likes to say, “When you share your content, good things happen.” I tend to agree, but could one of those “good things” actually be a more efficient use of taxpayer dollars? PC World just published a blog on Open Source Software called “Is Open Source Up to Par?…
Looking back at Open Ed 2010, looking forward to 2011
Today I reviewed some presentations from Open Ed 2010 and thought about the last several years of the Open Education movement. Here are a couple clips from the Barcelona conference, starting with a nice overview from my favorite OER advocate, Hal Plotkin: Hal Plotkin: impressions about Open Ed 2010…
What Video Auto-Captioning Means for OER
Ever since YouTube’s official auto-captioning feature launch in early March 2010 (with a private beta back in November 2009), I can’t stop thinking about the enormous significance for OER and for the web in general. It’s huge. As you probably know, David Wiley was recently able to convince Sal Khan…