open content

The Why Open Education Matters video competition closed today. Here’s our submission, which we got in just under the gun. I wrote the script and did the voice recording and editing. Degreed sponsored the animation, which was done by Mike Moon and produced by Haugen Creative. (Degreed is a new company I’ve co-founded with David … Read more

Notes for my talk at the University of Oregon A Very Brief History of Open Education 1840s: Distance Education eliminates time and place requirements 1970s: Open University of the United Kingdom eliminates most admissions requirements 1990s-2000s: Open content, then OpenCourseWare, open educational resources, and open textbooks eliminate registration requirements for access to course content Examples: … Read more

I’ve been greatly looking forward to Stephen’s explanation of his previous statement that his lifelong goal has been to work toward “reducing and eventually eliminating the learned dependence on the expert and the elite – not as a celebration of anti-intellectualism, but as a result of widespread and equitable access to expertise.” I questioned what … Read more