BECTA Paper on 'Open Source Teaching' and the Kaleidoscope

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http://www.becta.org.uk/page_documents/

research/open_source_teaching.pdf

Likely you will have already seen reference to this paper in today's OLDaily, but I felt it was worth reposting as it is a good paper and early on makes an important distinction that I think is too often left dormant in LOR projects and leads to no end of confusion about what people are trying to achieve.

This distinction has to do with the drivers behind the use of learning objects/repositories. The paper outlines 4:

- The efficiency route: the argument that learning objects and repositories enable scaleable reuse of materials and are thus a more efficient way to develop materials

- The teacher-centred route: sharing LOs will enable cross the board improvement of teaching materials

- The pupil-centred route: LOs, in that they also promote the separation of content and presentation and can be traversed to present new versions, enable accessibility and learning-style-centric versions of online materials

- The freedom argument: the LO approach allows instructors to take control of the means of production and share the intellectual product widely

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