I've just finished listening to this podcast from EdSurge interviewing me about a conference presentation I made a few weeks ago on removing login barriers from open online learning. Jeff Young also brings in George Siemens to round out the discussion, and it's interesting to see once again how our views contrast but also mesh quite nicely. I should take pains to say here that my position does not amount to saying there should be no signup ever; what I'm talking about is open access to MOOCs and learning resources. If you want an email newsletter, you'll have to provide an email to send it to (d'uh). And if you want AI-supported search services, you need to provide data to inform and train that AI. My point is that this sort of thing should be optional, should not collect more data than is needed to provide the system, and not converted into a barrier preventing all access to and sharing of learning resources. Here is the original audio from my side of the interview.
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