Major Updates to “Intro to Open Ed” RPG Syllabus

So far the response to the redesign of the Introduction to Open Education course has been great (already coverage in the Chronicle and the syllabus has been online less than a week). There’s been good critical feedback as well; the newly revised syllabus has a completely revamped Grading section based on Lynn Taylor’s comments (for … Read more

Change.gov Goes CC-By

President-elect Obama’s Change.gov website has formally adopted the Creative Commons Attribution license as it’s standard copyright license for the site. High marks for President-elect Obama on this! Now, if we can just get Lessig appointed as Copyright Czar we’ll have a prayer of seeing real copyright reform during the next administration.

Intro to Open Education – “The Game”

Winter semester I’m teaching a new version of the Introduction to Open Education course here at BYU. I’m as excited for this course as I’ve ever been for any – partly because the course has been completely redesigned as a massively multiplayer role-playing game. From the Syllabus: Instructional design faculty are frequently criticized for delivering … Read more