Comments on: Influences on the open educational resources movement http://oedb.org/blogs/wideopen/2007/influences-on-the-open-educational-resources-movement/ How the open source movement is revolutionizing education. Sun, 8 Nov 2009 06:31:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: John Concilus http://oedb.org/blogs/wideopen/2007/influences-on-the-open-educational-resources-movement/#comment-140 John Concilus Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:28:27 +0000 http://oedb.org/blogs/wideopen/2007/influences-on-the-open-educational-resources-movement/#comment-140 Nice site, and interesting commments. The potential applicability of the ideas Raymond applied to software in the <i>Cathedral and the Bazaar</i> to educational content is stunning. The system as we currently know it has too many organizations, vendors and professional associations vested in perpetuating the solutions, rather than actually solving the problem. This means they see no reason for change, and will fight Open Educational Resources from both a policy and business standpoint at every turn. The stakeholders now use FUD, and pretty well control the Educational IT industry that would need to be convinced through filtering and steering news and product information reaching opinion leaders. Collaborative content and creation refutes the false economy of knowledge that is place. Since there is no real leading organization, promotion of OER in public schools will need to depend on grass roots, EduBlogger led marketing ;-) Keep up the work on the site! Regards, John Nice site, and interesting commments.

The potential applicability of the ideas Raymond applied to software in the Cathedral and the Bazaar to educational content is stunning.

The system as we currently know it has too many organizations, vendors and professional associations vested in perpetuating the solutions, rather than actually solving the problem. This means they see no reason for change, and will fight Open Educational Resources from both a policy and business standpoint at every turn.

The stakeholders now use FUD, and pretty well control the Educational IT industry that would need to be convinced through filtering and steering news and product information reaching opinion leaders.

Collaborative content and creation refutes the false economy of knowledge that is place. Since there is no real leading organization, promotion of OER in public schools will need to depend on grass roots, EduBlogger led marketing ;-)

Keep up the work on the site!

Regards,

John

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