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[...] in this area have been heavily funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. See also Dave Cormier’s blog post on the complexity of the notions of freedom and open-ness of [...]

By: KerryJ

KerryJ — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:57:28 +0000

Thank you for an incredibly insightful post about a topic that educators and education systems are wrangling with all over the world.

If a university’s (or any educational institution’s) value lies in being a place of experience and accreditation – then there is certainly much work to be done. Educators need to be properly supported, mega classes of hundreds of students need to be re-evaluated and assessment needs to be integrated into the learning process, rather than boiling down to a digit that feeds into an OECD nation rank.

Cheers!

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By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:05:38 +0000

Thanks for the response. I look forward to hearing more on this topic in future posts.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:47:25 +0000

@Seth I’ve gotten a couple of responses like this… I think I should have made myself clearer.

“There are some things that simply live on the scale where they should/need to be projects but others, I would argue most, are simply a matter of changing practice”

Yes. Much like the creation of, say, the OED, knowledge infrastructure projects might be necessary. They would be the ones that simply live on that scale.

The article was directed at specific practitioners in an attempt at encouraging them to openness without the infrastructure. It was not, in any sense, meant to discourage larger groups from infrastructure projects. I couldn’t really discourage them, I don’t think, but had it occured to me that someone might be I might have added something like your comment on knowledge infrastructure.

By: Seth

Seth — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:22:34 +0000

Since this post is three days old and 10 comments in I may be late to party. If OER is the dictionary, doesn’t that mean that there needs to be some representation through knowledge infrastructure projects, just a dictionaries exist? That’s not to say that we need some kind of single authoritative repository, but what’s wrong with people doing their best to present their own entries into the OER dictionary. Don’t give me the cash/power argument. I’ve talked with enough people who work for OCWs to know that this isn’t about the money or any sort of prestige.

I’m intrigued by the idea of a post-repository sort of world, but it seems necessary that we at least fix some of these representations of information and learning for later use. People don’t scale and I’m beginning to think that conversations do as well.

By: budtheteacher (Bud Hunt)

budtheteacher (Bud Hunt) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:41:44 +0000

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"Openness is not a panacea. It will not suddenly teach or spread ‘good’ education, nor is it free of cultural baggage." [link to post]

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By: HallyMk1 (Richard Hall)

HallyMk1 (Richard Hall) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:36:44 +0000

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RT @davecormier: New Article posted on my blog. Thanks to fine folks at SEDA. [link to post]

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By: siavogel (Sia Vogel)

siavogel (Sia Vogel) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:41:44 +0000

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Very interesting article, references and reactions; thanks to @davecormier [link to post] #yam

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By: curriki (Curriki)

curriki (Curriki) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:35:39 +0000

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RT @educ8ter: Dave Cormier blog #OER: The implications for educational development [link to post]

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By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:02:54 +0000

Thanks for this thoughtful blog post. Your comments about “free” are very on point. While end users may not may much if any money for OERs, there is a cost to produce, sustain and use them (time, money, etc.)

Would be curious to hear your thoughts about Dr. Kurshan’s recent article, “Free Education: Sustaining Open Source Curriculum”:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-barbara-kurshan/free-education—-sustain_b_313397.html

If you have not visited Curriki–a community of educators and repository of over 32,000 K-12 OERs, I welcome you to visit the site.

Thanks and Happy Holidays!
Anna

PS I welcome you to pass along some OER cheer with these holiday greetings: http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Holiday