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Reflections on 20 Years of Open Content: Lessons from Open Source

Iterating Toward Openness

I’ll be writing a range of essays this year reflecting on two decades of work toward opening the core intellectual infrastructure of education (textbooks and other educational materials, assessments, and outcomes / objectives / competency statements) in order to increase access to and improve the effectiveness of education.

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Why We Should Expand Our OER Advocacy to Commercial Publishers

Iterating Toward Openness

In 2002, UNESCO followed those leads choosing to name the subset of open content that was useful for teaching and learning “open educational resources,” instead of a name with “free” in the title.). (In Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model. And a switch to OER would help publishers solve both of them.

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Live Tuesday August 16th with Gary Lopez on HippoCampus.org and Teaching with the Power of Open, Digital Resources

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Tuesday, August 16th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Dr. Gary Lopez to discuss HippoCampus, a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE) to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

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March 13th Library 2.0 Mini-Conference "Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This is a conference for librarians, instructional designers and educators to share their work and challenges, as well as for those who believe in the value of integrating instructional design into their practice to help them innovate and evolve library services for the future. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.

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The Revisability Paradox

Iterating Toward Openness

” If you’ve been working in educational technology since the 1990s, you might want to skip the first section below. Try this detailed elucidation of the reusability paradox from 2002.). OER and the Revisability Paradox. I don’t believe readers of this blog need much additional context about OER.

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The ninth annual Global Education Conference starts this coming Monday! This is an amazing and free online event that brings together educators and innovators from around the world. Click here to register to attend the conference live or to have access to the conference recordings afterwards. LOTS of information below!