Movements for change

The learning technology landscape is changing and many questions are being asked. Why should teachers give away their resources, and why should they share their hard work with other teachers? What is Creative Commons and how does it work? What is open scholarship and what does it have to offer me? Will the 'giants' in the publishing world take notice of the Open Educational Resource movement? How did Web 2.0 come about? How do movements for change emerge and gain impetus? Does change come best from a top-down or a bottom-up approach? And where can we find the useful open educational resources we need?

I gave my responses to these and many other questions during a 30 minute interview today with Alastair Creelman (Linneuniversitet, Sweden) on Adobe Connect. We discuss the future of organisations like Becta, and how universities like my own institution are planning for the future of education supported through new learning technologies, and open educational resources. We cover issues such as language, intellectual property and ownership in our half hour conversation. Even my teenage son puts in a cameo appearance! The link to the interview is here, and I would be interested in your comments on what was discussed. Alastair is doing an entire series of interviews with internatioanl experts in the area of open educational resources, and I think his interviews should be more widely publicised.

And my soundbite from the interview: 'Knowledge is like love. You give it away, but you still keep it...'

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