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I don't usually blog about other blogs, but Eater's post about the open sourcing of MIT's curriculum is worth taking a look at, if only because he's propagating an idea that I've been pushing for quite a few years: Online [networked], open sourced public schools. Note that there is quite a bit of effort to create the definitive "online high school", but so far everything I've seen [e.g. in state of Ohio] is closed source, and is basically designed to keep the students off the internet. Public schools in the US are long way from being willing to use the Internet to educate students. From the luddite POV adopted by most "Boards of Education" [in my experience], the Internet is something the students must be protected from, not something that they should be allowed to reference as a source in a term paper...

posted by pd wilson   #   07:40