Open EdTech Launch Paper 2022 v 0.9
Martin Dougiamas,
Google Docs, Open EdTech,
Nov 07, 2022
This paper launches Open EdTech, a organization that "building a global NextGen educational platform. Our platform will be 100% free and open source, based on the principles of open education." "What we clearly need," writes the CEO of Moodle, "is a fresh start, using all the knowledge we have gained to construct a new infrastructure." I'm not going to disagree, and not only because Moodle is based on a 20-year old tech stack (I feel a lot of the same things working with Perl), but also because there's a need for new thinking beyond the idea of a platform for courses and classes. But do we need, I wonder, a completely separate purpose-build stack for education? We've discussed many of the points raised in this article over the years in this newsletter, so I won't belabour the details, since this should be viewed as a start, not a finished product, though I appreciate the nod to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the desire for globally accessible education, whatever that amounts to.
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