Open Ed - Week 8: Economic Models of Open Education

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Open Ed - Week 8: Economic Models of Open Education
Good discussion of different models of open education, colour coded (red, yellow, green). Jennifer Maddrell writes, "At the Open Ed conference, I heard a suggestion to hire students (cheap labor) to sit and "convert" professors lecture content and other face to face course materials into a digital format. Why? Do learners want this? Isn't this the same mistake made when online courses first came into being?" More...