Higher Ed’s in trouble, in case you hadn’t heard. Burdened by runaway costs, unsustainable infrastructure, outrage over tuition increases, declining public dollars, and…
As a self-professed metadata geek, I’ve recently been participating in an online discussion about metadata and the Learning Registry. I have to say, it feels as if I’m on a…
A wave of policies in the past five years has attempted to ensure that students have access to affordable course materials. Efforts driven by the Higher Education Opportunity…
I learned about David Lippman from an article on TeamOpen and realized I needed to talk to him more about his work in open education and open source. David is a professor at…
On Monday, March 16 we will begin a series, one article each day through the end of the month, on the theme: Open Source in Education. The complete collection of articles will…
Forty years ago, John Holt wondered whether an educational revolution as profound as open education could survive unless it became part of a wider and deeper movement of…
How do you make money from something that is free? Borrow some moves from the commercial open source playbook. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are disrupting the higher…
Educators have been sharing open educational resources (OERs) for over 12 years now. There are literally tens of thousands of them out there, many structured as collections of…
Despite the attempts at single sentence definitions so common in the published literature, “open educational resources” is a highly context-mediated construct. However…
Ahrash Bissell, project manager for the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education and former executive director of ccLearn (the education division of Creative Commons)…
Today the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) is launching The Open Course Library, a resource of open course materials from the top courses in…
If you've ever wished you could afford a Stanford University course--or just this semester's textbooks for community college, we have some interesting articles for you this…