Craig, Thank you for the very thoughtful reply. First, I want to mention that Penn State (my home institution) is not engaged in “open source learning” at the institutional level. That said, a group of us is developing a white paper to start addressing such issues within the Penn State context, which should be very interesting. At some point the effort might merit a posting.
You mentioned in an earlier comment you mentioned a bold and exciting position of one of your Deans as follows:
Here at the Mona campus, the Dean of our largest faculty agreed that all faculty members shouldhave access to all the faculty's course websites on OurVLE, which in effect means that they wouldall be able to see all the learning designs, and importantly, how effective each was.
I am very interested in learning about faculty reaction to your Dean's position on opening content. Were the faculty receptive to the idea, did the Dean prepare the faculty, how are you implementing this effort, and do you think it is a first step in opening content more broadly (outside of the faculty)? How are you measuring effectiveness?
I think that many of us who work in Universities could learn from your experience. Cheers, Ken
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