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15 Jul 09

The White House - Press Office - Excerpts of the President's remarks in Warren, Michigan and fact sheet on the American Graduation Initiative

  • Community colleges are the largest part of our higher education system, enrolling more than 6 million students, and growing rapidly. They feature affordable tuition, open admission policies, flexible course schedules, and convenient locations, and they are particularly important for students who are older, working, need remedial classes, or can only take classes part-time.
  • Expand course offerings and offer dual enrollment at high schools and universities, promote the transfer of credit among colleges
14 Jan 09

ITOE: History of Open Education

  • The point is that the creation of publicly available content with educational value is hardly new. What is new is the economics enabled by digital reproduction in general and the internet in particular, which change the economics of sharing content by turning it into a “nonrivalrous” good.
  • Ironically, by doing so MIT made clear the distinction between OER and open education. They could afford to make all course content available for free, they argued, because the MIT course materials (even the lectures themselves!) are not the same thing as an MIT education. The locus of value from an MIT education comes from gathering smart people, teachers and students, to discuss those materials. It is in the free exchange of ideas in the classroom. That’s the bit that’s worth $50K a year (and rising).
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