There was a fascinating article in the Texas Tribune this week about the recent legislation in Texas that, among other things, appears to allow textbook money to be directed toward technology, calls for “open source” textbooks to be authored, and
Online and free ≠ open
Newsweek ran an article this week about online courses. This article provided some publicity for the OER movement…except that the article really wasn’t about OER. The article said, in part, “In addition to YouTube EDU, Web sites like iTunes U,