These notes and slides are for a webinar I’m doing with the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction on “Open Professional Learning.” In this session, I’m talking about open resources for learning about copyright and OER and for
Enforced independence
In #rhizo14 this week, the question is how to you enforce independence in learning? Of course, this is a paradoxical question – can you really force people to take control of and responsibility for their own learning? This leads me
A new take on “open”
This is going to a long, somewhat circuitous post, but if you hang in to the end, it will wind around to open education. A thought occurred to me yesterday: If kids who did well on tests like me would
Does the world need one more online community?
I love open online communities. I mean, I really love them. More and more, I find value in the conversations and sharing in these communities, much more so than in other content resources. This is the way learning should be.
The Obviousness of Open Policy
I just had a piece published by Info Week about open educational resources, advocating for the position that all publicly funded educational resources should be openly licensed. After it was published, someone wrote to ask me about how I would