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Showing #OpenGratitude for: OpenStax

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This is another post in my series of posts showing gratitude and appreciation for members of the open education community. Today I’m going to focus on OpenStax. From their website: OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, and it’s our mission to improve student access to education. Our first openly licensed college textbook was published in … Read more

The CARE Framework, Take 2

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I recently wrote about the CARE Framework. At the very beginning of that post I warned that while it began as a response to the framework, it wandered into quite a bit of other territory. I’ll be the first to admit that it’s not my clearest piece of writing. I’m a firm believer in the … Read more

Schrodinger’s OER

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Stephen shared some thoughts this morning on a recent post of mine. I want to clarify the underlying source of our primary disagreement. Stephen writes: Wiley’s second point is like saying ‘we can’t destroy it, no matter how we use it, because it’s non rivilrous [sic]’. But openness can be destroyed; I have discussed the phenomenon of ‘conversion‘ in … Read more