In my continuing thoughts on ways to position open educational resources for the K-12 market, I now turn to the issue of “free.” I have two concerns about using the term “free” in promoting these materials. First, they aren’t really
Positioning “open” – OER
In marketing most things, including educational materials, positioning is important. Whether it is the short one sentence tag line or the elevator pitch description, how you describe something affects how people view it. I would even argue that coming to
K-12 OER Collaborative enters next phase
[Disclosure: I am part of an advisory group for this project.] Last week, the K-12 OER Collaborative entered the next phase of their project, awarding contracts for rapid prototypes to the following developers: edCount LLC Expeditionary Learning Illustrative Mathematics Learn
The consequences of success
Today, on the first day of Open Education Week, I am happy to say that OER has gained traction in K-12 over the last year. More and more people are talking about OER. States and funders are putting serious efforts
Thinking about open practice
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about open learning and with Open Education Week coming up, thought it would be a good time to explore this in more detail. To be clear, I am not talking about open educational resources