More Response to Stephen

This must be the single most popular post title on my blog… In response to my earlier post, Yes, Stephen, but Who Cares?, Stephen responds: I care, David. Because the next result on Google won’t be the free version, it’ll be another pay version. And the next and the next and the next. That’s how … Read more

Identifying concrete pedagogical benefits of open educational resources

Here’s one of the proposals I submitted for Open Ed 2010: The most naïve kind of hype around open educational resources (OER) says that OER are more effective pedagogically than proprietary educational resources (PER). Can we justify this claim? First, it is critically important that we understand that “effectiveness” is not characteristic of an educational … Read more