Degrees for Open Learning?
Bernd Remmele,
eLearning Papers,
Apr 17, 2011
Good article arguing that the success of open educational resources requires a commercial foundation ("the success of Free-and-OpenSource-Software (FOSS)... was however the participation of profit-seeking companies and thus the development of customer-oriented products") and thus exploring "the possibility of finding marketable services in relation to the selection function, arguing that degree-providing institutions can offer learners credits for the competences acquired during open learning, in other words, re-formalizing the process." I don't agree with the premise, and would have welcomed more development of the "descriptions of learning results based on complex competence models" as compared to the "grand narrative" outlined at the start of the paper. That said, the paper is a cogent and well-argued defense of the position.
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