Author Archives: sgreenla

Ryan Brazell recently blogged on his experience at OpenEd 2014 in which he said, While I can see the potential short-term gains, I’m deeply concerned about the questions we’re not asking surrounding OERs and open education more generally. I agree … Continue reading →

This post is where I go off the reservation.  It is the third in a series of posts about the process of creating a free, open source textbook.  I ended the previous post with a question:  Is the book I helped … Continue reading →

This post is a continuation of the story of how I helped create a free, open source text book. The first post is here. When one hears the words “free text book,” it is natural to question the quality of … Continue reading →

Last spring, I received an invitation to become the lead content expert for OpenStaxCollege’s principles of economics book . OpenStaxCollege is the new name for Connexions, a project I first heard about when founder Rich Baraniuk spoke at the 2005 … Continue reading →

Over the last year, I have fallen prey to a common ailment of bloggers—wanting to get your ideas just right before they are published.  Putting your ideas out there is, after all, risky.  Especially when those ideas may be half-baked.  … Continue reading →

Having nothing better to do (or nothing that I felt like doing) on a Sunday afternoon, I thought I’d respond to Bryan Alexander’s thought-provoking post on nothing less than the future of higher education. First a caveat: I am not … Continue reading →

You may recall from my earlier posts that I was concerned that students were learning substantially less in my online course than the parallel face-to-face course.  The difference in final exam scores was one full letter grade!  My hypothesis was … Continue reading →