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OER as “Classroom Exhaust”

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Mike responded to my recent toothbrush analogy with a thoughtful response which included this tidbit: The most elegant defense of what I’ll call the input theory of OER is “We just publish by-products of of work, which is sustainable (we have to do the work anyway) and useful (after all, we’re using it).” I’m sympathetic … Read more

DesNews Piece on Online Education

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I was recently asked to contribute a brief piece on the topic “Will Online Courses Transform Education?” for the Deseret News, a Utah newspaper. They ran the piece today; I’m syndicating it here for those of you who don’t read the DesNews. Readers of my blog will have heard me say much of it before, … Read more

Thank you, Governor Herbert!

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Thank you, thank you, thank you Governor Herbert! To those in the Utah legislature concerned about the financial cost of GRAMA, here’s an idea. Since we’re talking about electronic communications used to conduct public business, why not just cc: all these communications to a giant public repository in the sky the first time you send … Read more