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Here's an interesting article about the same topic we discussed last week -- providing course materials online for free!
posted by Vanessa @ 7:28 PM
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The Open Education initiative is very interesting and sounds similar to the efforts within technology's open source movement. If the motives remain to allow for open use, discovery, and improvement of the resources/content- the open source software movement has shown that there will definitely be improvement and change of the materials. However, in many case you may still need an agent of some sort to help facilitate the learning and without some sort of certification process the effort exerted by the user of the open education resources may not directly translate into improved economic standing.
During the learning activity last week, I found that I may not be able to find what I want exactly, and even if I find them, I may have to 'tailor' them to suit my training needs. Perhaps I did not search hard enough.
For branded institutes like Yale and MIT, their brand names sell! They can post their course materials online without fear of loosing students (and hence, business). I'm not so sure about institutes that are less branded. Already they may not get a lot of business (students). Making their course materials freely available may make them lose even more. I may be wrong.
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