Project-Based, Across Disciplines, Ancient Civilizations. What's Not To Love?
This Saturday, I will be facilitating a conversation at Educon focused on building the structure to support an openly licensed Ancient Civilizations course. The planned conversation is really one small...
View ArticleSome Pre-Session Thoughts On Creating And Using Open Content
In preparing for my Educon session, I've spent a fair amount of time reviewing the existing open content repositories, as well as sites dedicated to sharing individual lessons. Leaving the licensing...
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Evaluating Privacy Policies, and Helping Others Do It Well
In December, 2013, the Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy released a study on privacy and cloud computing in public schools within the US.The study is a worthwhile read - I'm cleaning up my...
View ArticleAccess Is Not The Same As Ownership: Retaining the Fifth R
Darren Draper has a post summarizing some thoughts on David Wiley's proposal for a fifth "R". Both David's and Darren's posts provide context around what I'm writing...
View ArticleMove Out Of Your LMS
Over the last few months, we've been working with Lumen Learning to support their mission of increased adoption of open educational resources. As part of this work, we needed a way to import course...
View ArticleWhat Problems Get Solved by the AFT, Clever, and ShareMyLesson Collaboration?
On Friday, Benjamin Herold wrote a piece where he outlined the new collaboration between ShareMyLesson and Clever, and how the American Federation of Teachers is backing this collaboration. His piece...
View ArticleWe Don't Need An App to Support Teacher Expertise
While the goals of the American Federation of Teachers collaboration with Clever and ShareMyLesson remain unclear (to me, anyways), if the AFT or the National Education Association wants to increase...
View ArticleContext Is a Technical Issue
The ability to remix and adapt openly licensed content is one of the key advantages of open educational resources - or OERs - over proprietary, traditional textbooks. However, there are still barriers...
View ArticleScale
Adopting openly licensed resources is arguably the most complicated part of the process. With this in mind, I get the sense that, when we talk about scale, we are getting it wrong. In general,...
View ArticleScale for Engagement
I've been thinking about the idea of scale, and how our current conceptions of scale are askew.Within the Open Educational Resources space, there are a range of efforts that focus on broad scale...
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