I am giving a presentation today at Open Education 2011 (the conference has been fabulous so far!) based on this article. Here are the slides: Open ed fwk sustainability View more presentations from johnhilton3.

Update October 2011: Preliminary efficacy results are now available! I’ve been involved in an exciting research program where we are collaborating with middle and high school teachers to determine the cost effectiveness and educational effectiveness of a set of open textbooks in middle and high school classrooms. David Wiley initiated the project, and it’s been [...]

Lots has been written about Apps versus the Internet. Today I heard Ben Galbraith speak on this topic and he said something like this (quoting from his blog): “What a fascinating time of change for our industry! The Web has been challenged as the dominant platform for mainstream consumer software experiences–though the contest with apps [...]

I was really interested in Salman Kahn’s recent TED talk (video embedded at the end of this post). There is much to love, and I’m going to try out some of his simpler videos on my 1st, 2nd, and 4th grade children. I was particularly interested in the concept of “flipping class.” Typically in class, [...]

One topic that has interested me for a long time is the possibility of college professors recording and podcasting their classes so that others could more freely listen to the class. It seems to me that while the audience for a lot of these classes would be small, extra exposure to good classes would be [...]

I’ve posted some of my feelings about copyright here. I wanted to share one of my favorite videos on the subject … in case you haven’t seen it yet.

Recently I was in a conversation with a friend about whether a should resource should be openly accessible to others or kept behind a password. Because it was a very narrow topic we were discussing, he felt that nobody outside the group would be interested in what was being discussed. He was suprised when I [...]

I noticed an interesting article recently called: At SPARC-ACRL Forum, Reality Check on Open Access Monographs Go check it out.

First Monday just published an article that David Wiley and I wrote. We are currently working on an expanded version of this article now that we have access to an additional year’s worth of data. Flat World is certainly an interesting company! Here’s the abstract: “Many college students and their families are concerned about the [...]

The very first academic article I worked on has been published by Tech Trends. It’s called Free: Why Authors are Giving Books Away on the Internet. For the article, David Wiley and I interviewed ten authors who had made some or all of their books available for free on the Internet. Most of the authors [...]