Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Open Source Content in Education: Part 2 - Developing, sharing, expanding resources - George Siemens

This is the second article (Part 1: Free and Open Source Movements explores the history and philosophy of the openness and sharing of resources in software development) on the role of open source in education. The foundation of the article was shaped by a several week email dialogue with Stephen Downes. The essential concept presented: we need open access and sharing of educational materials to provide an alternative to increasing pressures of proprietary content providers.

 



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