And the final question: “Based on where the field is now, and these initial ideas about where it might go, what part of the open education movement is most interesting to you? Why? ” In Week 1, we debated the
OpenEd-Week 4 discussion-Part 1
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I read an interested article about a program in New York that offers financial incentives to selected families for participating in education, including payment for attending parent conferences, improving student performance, and even graduating. Opportunity NYC is modeled after a
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In Giving Knowledge for Free – The Emergence of Open Educational Resources, the authors talk about what “open” really means. One issue that comes up frequently in this regard is the various restrictions that an author may include as a
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Well, for all of the writing I’ve done on this, I haven’t really answered the question: In your opinion, is the “right to education” a basic human right? Why or why not? In your opinion, is open *access* to free,