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 Policy in Washington State
Last week I gave a presentation on Open Education policy in Washington State at the OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2011 meetings in Cambridge. It’s great to see both the Hewlett and Gates Foundations focusing on community college Open Education efforts. I am fortunate to work in a system that has well-defined…
How Creative Commons Helped Me Graduate
I am graduating today, and along with my faculty advisors and my family, I have Creative Commons to thank. Not long before graduation I received a friendly email reminder informing me that I still needed to submit a capstone paper to complete my Ed.S. degree in Instructional Technology & Learning…