Terry makes an important point, and I’ll note that it’s one of the most important points I have returned to as well… the value of open material for people who don’t have access to even that part of the education many of us take for granted.

Perhaps some think that the few hours a teacher takes “extra” to stage their materials in an open way and capture some of their process on an open platform would be better spent serving those students directly somehow. I don’t agree… the value of making openness a part of education (as it should be) is to make most aspects of these discussion moot (because, in a way, I really agree with the open ed naysaying here, I just think they misunderstand what open ed is about).