Particularly if you think about restructuring curricula so that OERs and Free Software are integrated with each other across all subjects, eliminating paper and pencil drudgery in favor of collaborative exploration, and Doug Engelbart's program of Enhancing Collective Intelligence. Our educational institutions, educational research, and educational politics have not even started to address these issues seriously.
We are at a stage comparable to Gutenberg's contemporaries thinking about which existing manuscript books to print, before any of the new forms of publication appeared, from the novel to the scientific journal. We are as if filming stage plays with a fixed camera, before any of the techniques appropriate to film were invented and the first location shot planned. On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 1:02 AM, simonfj <[email protected]> wrote: >> > In a word, No. >> >> This turns out not to be the case. > > In a word, Yes. A key, not "the" key, but one of the next ones the world > will see. > >> OERs are as big an advance as printed textbooks were > > Yes. > > If you think of OER as "transparent, static, non-reusable publications > related to education" then I can see why you would not be excited about > their generative potential. > > But if you think of the movement as "global communities collaborating to > unify, organize, interconnect, enrich, and freely share knowledge" in the > context of education, then you have one of the cornerstones of societal > development in our generation. > > Sam. > > -- 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/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks -- 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]
