The White House Promotes Open Education

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Today President Obama announced that, in addition to the commitments already outlined in the US Open Government National Action Plan, the United States will take additional steps to make government more open, transparent, and accessible for all Americans. The announcement included the following commitments: Promote Open Education to Increase Awareness and Engagement Open education is … Read more

The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure

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The following is a pre-print of an essay set to appear in Bonk et al.’s forthcoming book MOOCs and Open Education around the World. It may undergo some additional editing before publication. Unlike the rest of the content on opencontent.org, this article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license v4.0, as per my … Read more

Remembering Brent Lambert

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I just learned that my colleague and friend Brent Lambert has passed on. As I’m reflecting on our relationship this morning, I want to share a few thoughts and feelings and stories. I met Brent when he entered the PhD program at USU. He came to us with a Masters degree (in CS), but no … Read more