Three Things You May Misunderstand About the Creative Commons Licenses

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UPDATE: It’s been brought to my attention that some readers of my blog read this post as a criticism of Creative Commons and its licenses. Nothing could be further from the truth. The title of the post was not “The Creative Commons licenses are inadequate.” The title was “Things you may misunderstand about the licenses” … Read more

Thoughts on Continuous Improvement and OER

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Recently I’ve been doing both more thinking and more roll-up-your-sleeves working on continuous improvement of OER. Below I’m cross-posting two short pieces on this topic I recently published on Lumen’s site (here and here). Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. (Herbert A. Simon, … Read more

Prelude, Percolation, and Preparation

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As a general rule, I don’t believe that colleges and universities understand why students are willing to go tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt to attend them. My experience has been that individual faculty are even less likely to understand these reasons than the leaders of their institutions. Faculty want college to … Read more