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Toru on “the main tenet of open education”

April 28, 2006 by opencontent

Toru Iiyoshi recently made a great post about the main tenet of open education. Here are a few of my responses:

On Metacrap

March 31, 2006 by opencontent

I was recently asked what I thought of Cory Doctorow’s classic Metacrap paper. He was, of course, dead on when he wrote it. The nagging question at the time was “what alternatives do we have?” And the sad answer was “not many.”

Making Adaptaion Easier – ocw2wiki

March 30, 2006 by opencontent

So we’ve been talking about this for months now. “Wouldn’t it be cool if there was just a button you could push that would pipe the contents of an OCW page directly into a wiki, so you could start remixing away?” Everyone else here is busy writing real code (eduCommons 2.0 release coming in April!), … Read more