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Opportunity is Knocking: Will Education Open the Door?

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Date: 4/25/2006


A while back there was an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "Open Source Is the Answer. Now What Was the Question?" The question, according to Toru Iiyoshi, is "How can open education's tools and resources demonstrably improve education quality?" And in this Perspectives, Toru, who directs the Foundation's work using new media and emerging technologies, laments that this question is not asked nearly enough.

Toru challenges his fellow advocates for open education to tackle three challenges that stand in the way of real impact on teaching and learning: the need to couple educational tools and resources with information that allows others to use them effectively; the need to bring more rewards to the work of documenting and building on shared educational work; and the need to build larger collaborative communities for sharing and building knowledge. The changes Toru is calling for reflect a need to transform academic culture in fundamental ways, making this a compelling piece even for those who haven't yet thought much about open source tools and resources.


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