Quietly Killing the Quiet Revolution–the Attack on Open Education
What my colleague Kevin Carey referred to as “one of the most innovative federal higher-education programs ever conceived” has come under attack. He describes this $2B federal investment this way
“The concept is simple: Community colleges that compete for federal money to serve students online will be obliged to make those materials…available to everyone in the world, free, under a Creative Commons intellectual property license. The materials become, to use the common term, open educational resources, or OER’s.”
In his article, entitled The Quiet Revolution in Open Learning, Kevin noted how odd it was that this “revolution” was going largely unnoticed by a sector in desperate need of innovation. What he didn’t say (because it was not yet apparent), was that it did not go unnoticed by an oligarchy seeking to preserve outdated business models at