[Open-education] Scott McNealy forceful advocate of Shared OER

Wed Aug 10 09:04:09 UTC 2016

Hi all

You might not agree with all Scott McNealy’s fixes for the “failing” US K-12 system but he puts some energy into the debate and see in particular Fix #3:

Fix #3 Invest state and federal dollars in open educational resources: Mandate that all monies for state and federal curriculum be used to develop, curate, align, and disseminate open educational resources. The small cabal of publishers who are currently feeding at the public trough by selling us warmed-over textbooks needs stopped. Two plus two has equalled four for a long time.

Read it all at http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/09/our-public-education-system-is-failing-scott-mcnealy-commentary.html 

Paul

From: Cable Green 
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 12:15 AM
To: Larry Singer 
Cc: OER Advocacy Coalition 
Subject: Re: [OER-advocacy] Deseret op-ed... again

Nice!

  a.. Fix #3 Invest state and federal dollars in open educational resources: Mandate that all monies for state and federal curriculum be used to develop, curate, align, and disseminate open educational resources. The small cabal of publishers who are currently feeding at the public trough by selling us warmed-over textbooks needs stopped. Two plus two has equaled four for a long time. 

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Larry Singer <larry.singer at k12oercollaborative.org> wrote:

  Below find a recent commentary by Scott Mcnealy, former Sun Microsystems CEO, founder of Curicki on ed reform and OER... 

  http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/09/our-public-education-system-is-failing-scott-mcnealy-commentary.html

  Larry

  Larry J Singer 
  CEO
  k12 OER Collaborative

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