Comments on: A password is a bushel http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/547 pragmatism over zeal Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:59:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rob Barton http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/547/comment-page-1#comment-41578 Rob Barton Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:18:30 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/?p=547#comment-41578 People are just scared to change, I think. In a class I'm taking in another department that just started this week, we have weekly readings with one or two page responses that we're supposed to send to everyone in the class before we meet. I recommended posting our responses on our blogs like we did in the OpenEd course last year, since it's a class that talks about technology. Everyone else voted to post our discussions in Blackboard, where they are closed off and where we'll probably lose access to them later. I'm not sure why. I didn't ask, but should have, "Have you all used Blackboard?" People are just scared to change, I think. In a class I’m taking in another department that just started this week, we have weekly readings with one or two page responses that we’re supposed to send to everyone in the class before we meet. I recommended posting our responses on our blogs like we did in the OpenEd course last year, since it’s a class that talks about technology. Everyone else voted to post our discussions in Blackboard, where they are closed off and where we’ll probably lose access to them later. I’m not sure why. I didn’t ask, but should have, “Have you all used Blackboard?”

]]> By: Marion Jensen http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/547/comment-page-1#comment-41577 Marion Jensen Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:40:07 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/?p=547#comment-41577 The cynic in me says it's because a candle under a bushel keeps everybody in the dark. And then you can make money selling candles, and charging people to light them at your fire. If you put the light on the hill, everyone will be able to see and nobody will want to buy your goods and services. You can make more money when you keep a resource scarce. And unfortunately, it's all about the money. The cynic in me says it’s because a candle under a bushel keeps everybody in the dark. And then you can make money selling candles, and charging people to light them at your fire. If you put the light on the hill, everyone will be able to see and nobody will want to buy your goods and services.

You can make more money when you keep a resource scarce. And unfortunately, it’s all about the money.

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