I usually hate shameless plugs, but would like to get some feedback from the open source world on a "recently" completed masters.
I think I raise some interesting issues, esp. related to the general awareness of open source concepts in public education.
What I am hoping is that those of us with technical background from the open source world of software development start to bring those concepts to public education. To be successful with an "Open Textbook" project, educators will have to start to develop common platforms for instruction, and common processes for actually creating [online] curriculum that is easy to adapt and improve.
My project write up is here:
http://kaehms.com/system/files/Masters-in-ed-tech--Modeling-the-open-source-process-in-curriculum-development.pdf
and a context setting piece is here:
http://kaehms.com/system/files/What-Open-Source-Has-To-Offer-Teachers.pdf
I usually hate shameless plugs, but would like to get some feedback from the open source world on a "recently" completed masters.
I think I raise some interesting issues, esp. related to the general awareness of open source concepts in public education.
What I am hoping is that those of us with technical background from the open source world of software development start to bring those concepts to public education. To be successful with an "Open Textbook" project, educators will have to start to develop common platforms for instruction, and common processes for actually creating [online] curriculum that is easy to adapt and improve.
My project write up is here:
http://kaehms.com/system/files/Masters-in-ed-tech--Modeling-the-open-source-process-in-curriculum-development.pdf
and a context setting piece is here:
http://kaehms.com/system/files/What-Open-Source-Has-To-Offer-Teachers.pdf
Feedback welcome.