Class Notes 7-8-10

Without even asking for protection of your work it is fully copy writable

Open Textbooks

Open Educational Resources
Open Courseware
Open Source Software

Open - teaching material s freely shared with permission to engage in the 4Rs activities

    4Rs
        Reuse - Copy verbatim
        Redistribute - share with others
        Revise - adapt and improve
        Remix - combine with others

Can do advanced searches in Google to filter by the creative commons license

Openness is the only way that we educate - we are sharing knowledge - without that sharing there is no education

    Education is a relationship of sharing
   
Jefferson "He who receives ideas form me receives instruction himself without…."

Expressions are different - if the expression is gone the expression is gone
    Ideas you don't have to fight over
   
Digital helps negate that problem because we don't have to fight over access to it - many people can access it at the same time

The "New" supply and Demand
   
    Upfront cost is the same - per unit approaches 0
   
    Print you get it forever
   
    Digital you normally by a license for a period of time
   
Look into flat world project

CK-12 -

    Can it be a higher quality education with a lower cost
   
   
Literacy specialist is different than an English teacher