Shichinin Reuse, or the Art of the Remake

There’s something about the notion of reuse that seems to confuse people. They think “reusable resources” like those in an OpenCourseWare collection should “just work out of the box.” We frequently hear about “design tips” for making learning objects more reusable; what we almost never hear about is “design tips” for how to reuse existing … Read more

Why scalability isn’t enough

Lots of folks responded rather strongly to my suggestion that talking about and focusing on scalability is immoral. As usual, I appear to have done a poor job articulating my feelings. đŸ™‚ The focus on scalability scares me because it only focuses on reaching lots of people, on reaching large numbers of people, on reaching … Read more

Why scalability isn’t enough

Lots of folks responded rather strongly to my suggestion that talking about and focusing on scalability is immoral. As usual, I appear to have done a poor job articulating my feelings. đŸ™‚ The focus on scalability scares me because it only focuses on reaching lots of people, on reaching large numbers of people, on reaching … Read more