OER Recommender Call for Feedback

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Former COSLers Joel Duffin and Justin Ball are continuing their work on tools that make OER more valuable and useful. The OER Recommender (now part of the Folksemantic project) is one of the premiere tools in their bag. If you’ve visited an OER that uses the recommendation service (see “Related Resources” on the right of … Read more

Lanier in the NYTM

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I’m just finishing Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget for a review for Ed Tech magazine, which I will also be publishing here. Over the weekend Lanier also penned a piece titled Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind? for the New York Times Magazine. A few comments on his NYTM piece. We see the … Read more

MIT and OCW 2.0

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About a year and a half ago I began writing about OCW 2.0 – OCWs whose long-term sustainability is tied to business models that include “up-selling” some OCW visitors the opportunity to earn university credit. Specifically, I predicted that: Every OCW initiative at a university that does not offer distance courses for credit will be … Read more