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Democracy, Disturbing Developments, and OER

I haven't had a chance to think this through yet, but I would like to note it for later reflection and to hear others' thoughts on the topic. In the "Who Should Own Ideas" section of Session 2 of the OERu course,  Open Education, Copyright and Open Licensing in a Digital World (LiDA103), it was something  Eben Moglen said at the end of his section of  the video with Lawrence Lessig that sparked this train of thought. The era of president for life is over. We are holding elections here.  Here...we made this. It is called democracy. Would you like some? It is free. (Eben Moglen)

Declaring myself on LiDA103

I have created this blog in connection with an online course, Open education, copyright and open licensing in a digital world (LiDA103), that I am taking through OERu. While it will serve as a venue for my learning reflections on these course topics, I hope to continue it after the course ends, as the relationship between metaliteracy (my primary research area) and open pedagogy is something I've been working on lately, and hope to continue.  With members of the Metaliteracy Learning Collaborative, I have been involved in co-creating quite a bit of open content: 4 MOOCs (1 cMOOC, like LiDA 103, and 3 xMOOCs ), quests and challenges for a digital badging system (the system itself is being worked on, but the content is available), a metaliteracy module for students transitioning from high school to college as part of the SUNY system's iSucceed online course , and more. I use a major open resource in my undergraduate information literacy course--Wikipedia--as a non-disp...