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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Open Teaching

Here's an example of a contemporary topic - open-source information - that leads directly to a philosophical discussion.

In yesterday's Wired Campus feature in the Chronicle of Higher Education, David Wiley offers his perspective on the value of 'open teaching' - that is, making course materials, readings, assignments, and even lectures freely accessible not only to students in the course, but to anyone at all on the web.