My earlier posts on open source higher education have generated a lot of discussion and I want to say thanks to all who have chimed in thus far. One of the contributors to this discussion, Greg Byshenk, questioned my use of the term “open source” and so I thought I ought to clarify exactly what…
THAT Podcast
The third podcast from the staff at the Center for History and New Media has launched. THAT Podcast (The Humanities and Technology Podcast) joins Digital Campus and History Conversations in the growing group of CHNM podcasts. In their inaugural edition, THAT Podcast creators Jeremy Boggs and Dave Lester interview Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress…
Can Higher Education Be Open Source? (3)
If I’d known about the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, I might have waited until today to write my first post on open source higher education. Released officially today, the Declaration is a call for openness along the lines I wrote about last week. Reading the Declaration this morning, I was particularly struck by the…
Can Higher Education Be Open Source? (2)
Yesterday I speculated that the open source model in the software world is going to undermine the basic delivery system for higher education in the United States (and perhaps elsewhere). Today I want to consider what, exactly, a transformed system of education might look like. What is the purpose of the college degree? It seems…