Free & Open

10 Essential Tips for Navigating a More Open World

September 28, 2009

With the world more “flat” and open than ever before, it helps tremendously to have a clear set of strategies for making sense of it all. Curtis Bonk, author of The World is Open, provides some great tips in this guest post for navigating the world of open education.

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Open Education, Open World – Podcast with Curtis Bonk

August 26, 2009

The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education, a new book from Jossey Bass, offers one of the most comprehensive overviews I have seen to date of how open education and Web 2.0 technologies are transforming our world. Recently I had the opportunity to talk with the book’s author, Curtis Bonk, and capture [...]

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You Want Me to Pay for Learning?!

March 26, 2008

I am fan of open education and have also written quite a bit here on free learning experiences that are available over the Web. On the other hand, I’ve made my living for more than a decade with companies that charge for learning experiences, and before that taught at a university that also charged for [...]

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More than 100 Free Places to Learn Online – and Counting

February 14, 2008

I’ve been a fan of open education for some time and recently have been intrigued by the revival of the “free” business model debate by Chris Anderson and Kevin Kelly, among others. So, conflating the two, I decided to undertake what turned into a “pulling a thread on a sweater” exercise and see how many [...]

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Open Education Marches On At Yale

December 13, 2007

I am glad to say that this posting does actually fit in with my previous two postings about the Great Ideas conference. Part of the reason I was at the conference was to attend a meeting of the professional development section council. During the council meeting, we brainstormed about topics for the next annual meeting, [...]

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