Comments on: OpenEd 2008 Submissions and Scholarships! http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/503 pragmatism over zeal Fri, 18 May 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: paul martin http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/503/comment-page-1#comment-41325 paul martin Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:09:21 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/?p=503#comment-41325 "we must ask: Is it working? How do we know? When will we know? Is the “open education movement” filled with overwhelming optimism?" No to quote that optimist Feynman - surely its simply the pleasure of finding out “we must ask:
Is it working? How do we know? When will we know?
Is the “open education movement” filled with overwhelming optimism?”

No to quote that optimist Feynman – surely its simply the pleasure of finding out

]]> By: barbara http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/503/comment-page-1#comment-41320 barbara Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:43:16 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/?p=503#comment-41320 Great! Just a remark for anybody who might join an oer event a few months before (hoping David doesn't consider it as a spam!): Advocates of open education resources, open source development, and open knowledge building all hope—even promise—to use and build on information in the public domain. They do so in order to equalize access to information and educational opportunities for learners all over the world. Sponsors and individuals also build collaborative communities to create knowledge, objects and information for the public good, using information technology to spread their tools and resources widely. With such high expectations, we must ask: Is it working? How do we know? When will we know? Is the "open education movement" filled with overwhelming optimism? ... > > > > Join the conversation at the Commons. > > June 16 - 19, 2008 > > http://commons.carnegiefoundation.org/webevent Great! Just a remark for anybody who might join an oer event a few months before (hoping David doesn’t consider it as a spam!):

Advocates of open education resources, open source development, and open knowledge building all hope—even promise—to use and build on information in the public domain. They do so in order to equalize access to information and
educational opportunities for learners all over the world. Sponsors and individuals also build collaborative communities to create knowledge, objects and information for the public good, using information technology to spread their tools and resources widely. With such high expectations, we must ask:
Is it working? How do we know? When will we know?
Is the “open education movement” filled with overwhelming optimism?
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> > Join the conversation at the Commons.
> > June 16 – 19, 2008
> > http://commons.carnegiefoundation.org/webevent

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