Great responses from Carson and Downes to my post yesterday on adoption as linking. It’s great to participate in a conversation at this level of depth again – it’s been too long for me (and entirely my own fault). I’ll make my next contribution in the coming days, but wanted to make sure everyone saw … Read more

I recently suggested that we need to begin looking beyond simply sharing OER and get around to adopting them. The post generated several comments, and I want to respond specifically to comments from Stephen and Stephen. Both Stephens agree that my idea of adoption, which involves revising and remixing, is wrong-headed. Downes writes “Here at … Read more

We’ve been sharing open educational resources for over 12 years now. There are literally 10s of 1000s of them out there, many of them structured as OCW (collections of course materials), some of them structured as complete open courses, some of them structured as complete open textbooks, and many of them not really structured at … Read more