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We Should Pause and Ask the Question

Iterating Toward Openness

It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. Empirically speaking, it’s approximately one million times easier to take Python for Everybody on Coursera than it is to install, configure, troubleshoot, and run all these tools yourself. Really think about it.

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The design and future of open education: Curtis Bonk on Future Trends Forum

Bryan Alexander

However, most people remain unaware of OER. They initially considered MOOCS, but after holding a design thinking exercise, and interviewing teachers around the world, they saw other issues cropping up: time constraints, language barriers, leadership support, infrastructure limitations, and the heterogeneous variety of students.

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