Simple Wins

Simple wins. I certainly didn’t say it first. Of all the times I have said it, I probably said it best in my Openness, Localization, and the Future of Learning Objects talk at BCNET last year. It was then that I adopted Simple Gifts as the theme song of all my open education efforts. Wired … Read more

Upgrading Elsevier

If you believe, like many, that academic publishers like Elsevier are evil, you may want to upgrade your opinion of Elsevier itself to “small but definitely non-zero chance that this organization is not evil.” According to a joint release from MIT and Elsevier: In a move to encourage open education, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Elsevier … Read more