Major Updates to “Intro to Open Ed” RPG Syllabus

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So far the response to the redesign of the Introduction to Open Education course has been great (already coverage in the Chronicle and the syllabus has been online less than a week). There’s been good critical feedback as well; the newly revised syllabus has a completely revamped Grading section based on Lynn Taylor’s comments (for … Read more

Change.gov Goes CC-By

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President-elect Obama’s Change.gov website has formally adopted the Creative Commons Attribution license as it’s standard copyright license for the site. High marks for President-elect Obama on this! Now, if we can just get Lessig appointed as Copyright Czar we’ll have a prayer of seeing real copyright reform during the next administration.

Intro to Open Education – “The Game”

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Winter semester I’m teaching a new version of the Introduction to Open Education course here at BYU. I’m as excited for this course as I’ve ever been for any – partly because the course has been completely redesigned as a massively multiplayer role-playing game. From the Syllabus: Instructional design faculty are frequently criticized for delivering … Read more