It was interesting to note that I had already read most of the books listed by David Wiley on the curriculum page. I don’t know if that means I am very up to date, or that I am too quick to throw myself at all the “pop-social science best sellers” that are published? Either way, […]

I randomly picked up this book by Martha Nussbaum at the Munk Center library the other night. I remember reading about both the Godhra train carnage, the controversy over the Ayodhya temple and the anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat, I think mainly through the Economist.
I am glad that I did, because it was an incredibly captivating […]

Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials Print version (Benkler, 32 pages)
Advancing Sustainability of Open Educational Resources (Koohang and Harman, 10 pages)
On the Sustainability of Open Educational Resource Initiatives in Higher Education (Wiley, 20 pages)
Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources (Downes, 16 pages)
QUESTIONS: How can you build a sustainable business around giving away educational materials? […]

I posted this on David Wiley’s blog, in his entry in response to Alessandro’s concerns about the course, which mirrored my own thoughts. I am reposting it here, since I know many will not see the comments on David’s blog. Thank you Alessandro for getting this conversation started. 
HI David,
I am very glad that this topic […]

Just sharing my personal notes taken while doing the readings. My answer to the reflection questions will be posted later this weekend.
On the Sustainability of Open Educational Resource Initiatives in Higher Education (Wiley, 20 pages)Open Educational Resources are defined as “technology-enabled, open provision of educational resources for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of […]

While working for CARE Indonesia we were trying to implement a web-based intranet file repository, that the different sub offices could use to store their documents, to increase both archival (backup, etc) but also cross-project and organizational learning. I found the project Boxroom, a Ruby on Rails project that seemed to do pretty much what […]

A friend is coming to visit me this week, so I will finish next week’s reading and assignment in advance, to have more free time.
QUESTIONS: Can you think of license options that CC is currently missing that would benefit the open education movement? As the CC and GFDL licenses are incompatible, how can OCW content […]

QUESTIONS: Understanding the importance and value of the public domain, how much (what percentage) of this value would you estimate is realized when works are licensed with a Creative Commons or GFDL license? To what degree would the open educational resources movement (and therefore the world) be additionally benefited if OERs were simply placed in […]

This week we were asked to assess six OER repositories, and discuss the concept of quality. I will not make a matrix and comprehensively present these different sites, but rather mention some salient observations regarding each one of them.
Repositories
Open University (UK) Open Content Initiative
This one is based on the national distance-learning institution in Britain, and […]