Partage de ressources et éducation

Pourquoi est-ce si important de partager les ressources en matière d’apprentissage ? George Siemens répond à cette question dans ce billet. Un aperçu des sous-titres:
« – We need options.
– Digital resource sharing doesn’t add costs.
– Structure is needed before a revenue model.
– To preserve public education.
– Competition.
– Education is directly linked to quality of life.
– The value of education is not the process but the impact.
– It’s democratic.
– Knowledge is built on other knowledge.
– Moving the learning object economy forward.
– It’s all too big for one person.
– Communities of practice.
– Similar to open source software. Many of the benefits realized by open source software may be applicable to the open education market. Some of these benefits are:
Increased resource reuse;
Increased quality;
Reduced likelihood of « vendor lock-in »;
Reduced costs;
Increased access to resource authors;
Rapid development;
Greater collaboration;
Larger market;
Open education is not about stating that learning materials must be free of expense. »