On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 22:43, john stampe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all > > I just read the article "Online. Indexed. Catalogued. Free. But will users > find it?" (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20100213). The following > quote from the article pretty well sums up the issue: "...making content > free will not guarantee its discovery or usage..."
Absolutely. But Open Learning Exchange, Commonwealth of Learning, and others do a good job of letting their members know about what they have developed and collected. > The article is about journal articles, but I as I read it I realized that > the basic issue also applies to open education - specifically, WE and the > CollabOERate concept. It is not an issue with marketing (at least not in the > narrow sense of the word), but about being able to get users to find the > material from the internet, especially with the bias that exists toward > proprietary and other copyright restricted material. > > Any thoughts? Schools that adopt one-to-one computing for students will also adopt a set of free educational materials, and may provide teachers and students with links to more. We need to create a free guide for teachers about what is available and how to use it. Then we need to write articles, go to conferences, lobby politicians, etc. Schools that don't have one-to-one computing will find out more about it, including the salient fact that netbook computers with free materials cost less than printed textbooks, and provide far more choice to schools, teachers, students, and parents. Whenever you talk about the issues, make sure that you give out the Librarian Chick and California Learning Resource Network Free Digital Textbook Initiative URLs, and ours. http://www.librarianchick.com/ Directory of free learning materials http://www.clrn.org/fdti/ Math and science textbooks officially adopted for California schools And be sure to pass information on new materials to Stacy Reed, our Librarian Chick. > Cheers, > John > > > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS > http://johnsearth.blogspot.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
