After two amazing keynotes at #OpenEd19 this morning, I read the following statement to conference attendees:   In 2003 I invited a small group of about forty people interested in open content and open courseware to Logan, Utah. Since then, this annual meeting has grown year after year to where we are today – 850 … Read more

For the first decade of the modern open education movement (1998 – 2007), the distinguishing feature of our work – the thing we cared most about and talked most about – was the open licensing we applied to educational materials. MIT OCW, CMU OLI, Rice’s Connexions, my group at USU, and others applied the new … Read more

It’s a world of laughter A world of tears It’s a world of hopes And a world of fears There’s so much that we share That it’s time we’re aware It’s a long game after all. OER advocacy, like most work, is filled alternately with advances and setbacks. Speaking from firsthand experience, because I live … Read more