Stephen Downes

I criticized Rob Farrow earlier this week without really understanding that his was just one of 23 articles in a series called "23 good reasons for Open Education" (in my defense, you really have to be tuned in to see that, since the articles lack any series introduction, and even the title of the series is abbreviated in the header). The reasons include things like "build a sustainable education system" and "incentivize original thinking" and "recognize teachers' work". While I think the list might be a list of good things about open education, I think that offering some of these as 'reasons' to support it is a bit of a stretch. If you're looking to "recognize teachers' work", for example, there are many better ways to do it. Like paying them more money, for example.