Open Teaching Multiplies the Benefit But Not the Effort

It’s time to get radical in how we think about delivering education to the world’s population in a digital, networked world.

This Chronicle post by David Wiley is worth your time.

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3884&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

When the costs of “open teaching” (freely allowing people outside the university to view course materials and informally participate in the course) are so low, I ask myself a question. Do we professors, who live rather privileged lives relative to the vast majority of the planet’s population, have a moral obligation to make our teaching efforts as broadly impactful as possible, reaching out to bless the lives of as many people as we can? Especially when participatory technologies make it so inexpensive (almost free) for us to do so? I believe the answer is yes. — David Wiley