Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
First of all, I doubt Brian Lamb is missing the point on open Educational Resources. "In the early brainstorming discussions, I staked out something of a confrontational stance... that higher education is still conducting its business as if information is scarce when we now live in an era of unprecedented information abundance... But other than a simple faith that using and diffusing simple, open tools represents a vast improvement over current educational "best practices"... I really don't have a clear sense of how to think of and promote useful OERs as something other than content..."

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