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Author Archives: Alex Kozak

Association of American Publishers continues its campaign of textbook (mis)information

The Open Educational Resource movement, based on the idea that educational content which is publicly licensed for modification and redistribution is a positive innovation in education, has just begun to break into the mainstream. Conceptually, the idea has been in the public sphere for years now with projects like the OpenCourseWare growing to over 200 [...]

Effective Advocacy Without Ideology in Open Education

Recently George Siemens posted some thoughts on the topic of openness as an ideology, and a dialogue began to take shape around whether the open education movement is best served by pragmatists or ideologues. In true blogger fashion, I want to ignore a lot of the context and put my own spin on the topic [...]

Open Journalism, Part 1

Journalists and media organizations face a foundational crisis: the web challenges their traditional conceptions of what the end-product of journalism is.
The availability of open data, open publishing tools, and open licenses combined with the a low barrier for information access allows anyone with the time and motivation to transform into an investigative reporter, publisher, advertising, [...]