Three months ago I blogged about concerns I have over McGraw-Hill’s MH Campus portal. If you are not familiar with the tool, MH Campus allows faculty to easily insert content from McGraw-Hill and its partners into their course. This includes some content that is available at no charge to faculty;…
Will publishers engage with open textbooks?
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?…
Concerns about MH Campus
McGraw-Hill recently released their MH Campus site, which integrates with a wide variety of LMS software to give faculty direct access to content from “the vast library of educational materials and services produced by McGraw-Hill and its partners – at no additional cost to the institution.” The concern I have…
Open Education Tools: The affordances of openness
I remember back in the old days, in the early 90’s, when the Internet still seemed like a fad to most people. Back before America Online started flooding the world with its endless stream of AOL CD offers, and you couldn’t just assume everyone had email. Back in the days…