The Virtues of the Open Web
April 27, 2011 | 2:52 PM | By Tina Barseghian
Dale Dougherty, founder of Maker Media (which organizes the annual Maker Faire), O’Reilly Media (publisher of all those great “Missing Manuals”) heralds the virtues of the open web and the history of open-source information in this talk at Open Educational Resources 2011 talk last month.
“The most important educational resource is the student,” he says.
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