The K-12 OER Collaborative has taken a great step forward as Karl Nelson has agreed to join the organization full-time as of later this month. Karl has been the Director of Digital Learning for Washington state’s Office of the Superintendent
Positioning “open” – Free
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
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
Reflecting on my year of open – part 5/Open dictionary
The Kids Open Dictionary has been a project of love (self-funded) that I and others have worked on for the last 6 years. This year, we accomplished some big milestones. Perhaps the most significant to me is that we defined