Month: September 2009

I was at a meeting to discuss OER where a very salient point was made. As the group tried to articulate a consensus position on the important principles of using OER, Glen Thomas, the Secretary of Education for California talked

I was in a series of policy meetings on OER this week. One of the big discussion areas was on definitions and language. I have written already about my concern with the confusion between digital, free, and open that I

As various folks are talking about open ed and open textbooks, there are often discussions of whether textbooks are an effective instructional tools at all. To me, that isn’t really the point. The effectiveness of instruction and the degree to

I’m really concerned about the chasm that exists in most K-12 districts between the ed tech folks and curriculum & instruction. Of course, this has always been a problem and is probably why technology has never reached its potential in