Comments on: The Release Day: Emo Edition

By: dan

dan — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:18:39 +0000

I feel like I’m getting farther away from something.

By: Chris Craft

Chris Craft — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:56:17 +0000

Hey Dan,

You do know most of the research shows no real benefit to technology, right?

I’m gonna get slammed for this one.

Sadly, that’s part of the reason we keep talking about such elusive terms as “engagement” and “21st century skills” because we can’t show research evidence for technology having a benefit.

It’s not about the technology, it’s about the instructional design. A good lesson is a good lesson whether given using pencil and paper or DrupalEd.

You have to consider the affordances issues to question whether they are there!

Oh, the writing that’s out there that you should read….

Chris

By: Peter Rock

Peter Rock — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:49:04 +0000

And D) A business that creates and offers code that schools have the freedom to do what they will with.

According to their website, OpenAcademic only produces GNU GPL code. Therefore (in this regard at least), their business model respects our freedom to study, share, use for any purpose, and modify the code they offer. It is clear that any school looking to OpenAcademic for help setting up an e-learning environment will not get pinned to any proprietary agreement.

Of course, there are many other factors that determine whether or not a school should choose business A or business B for help, but any business that lets schools cooperate like this is at least a business worth exploring.