eclectic, pragmatic, enthusiastic
People love to analogize / equate open education to open source. There are huge problems with this way of thinking… The one that comes first to mind is that many changes to an open source program can be empirically tested to objectively determine whether or not they improve the program (by increasing its speed, decreasing … Read more
I heard this quote at the iSummit today, and it completely sums up what we’re trying to do with the Open High School of Utah: You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller
I probably would not have named this the ‘Wiley Wiki Design’, but when someone like Leigh names something after you, how do you refuse? =) I’ve been meaning to write a little about this design I’ve been using for the last several years and how it has evolved, but recent proddings by Leigh, Teemu, and … Read more