their academic preparation and their employment experience?

Do you feel like your passion connects to your dissertation in any way?

This is so close to a statement of the problem. What bad thing(s) happen(s) because this is true? That's the problem.

You can cast this problem in several ways. As an educational problem, as a national security problem, etc. The way you choose to talk about it will influence which literature is in and out of scope and which potential solutions might actually solve the problem.

If there's so much demand, why is there a difficulty with funding? Why can't the people who actually have the demand provide the funding. There's no problem funding the creation of pizza near college campuses, where there's demand for pizza.

And if they do exist, do they exist for the reasons you think they exist? (For example, is the overall curriculum just so far detached from real life that there's no way to make it sufficiently engaging?)

I was hoping that this page would include a definition of open textbooks, but it does not. While it discusses "open" it never explicitly discusses "textbook." It comes closest when it suggests that only things that can be downloaded as PDF or ePub are textbooks. An explicit statement about what a textbook is, particularly in the context of open textbooks, would be very helpful to those trying to understand the difference between OER and open textbooks.

Nice metaphor. Really well done.

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This is another great insight and is totally true.

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This is a great insight. I hope you continue thinking about and extending it.

not?

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larger?

There's the cost to provide, and then there's the markup necessary to return rewards to investors and shareholders.

I find this phrase to be politically loaded and dangerous. Is there an alternative phrasing you could use here?

This is similar to the ideas of a "statistical life" and an "identified life." See http://www2.toulouse.inra.fr/lerna/treich/VSL.pdf

Move this phrase after the word resources.

This is the core issue. Do we actually harm others when we engage in these practices? I'm not persuaded we do.

Two todays in this sentence.

The environment here has been structured so that what would otherwise be a failure of significant consequence is a failure of no consequence (the water runs through the floor). What is the educational equivalent of this environmental structuring?

number mismatch

I like this line of reasoning. I think epidemiology is an interesting lens through which to look at the spread of the open meme.

There are myriad ways in which openness is counter-intuitive like this. It fills me with happiness.

You might update this to include a nod toward the problem of "fake news" that society is only starting to deal with after the most recent election.

I think one of the great things SO does is blur our notion of an "expert." In a more traditional setting, an expert would be someone with a PhD. In SO, an expert is someone who knows the answer to your question, and you literally don't care how they gained that little slice of expertise. It may be the only one they have! But as long as it's the one you need, they're an expert to you, on that topic, on that day.

This is the strategy that is ultimately going to succeed, and not just in textbooks - in the capitalist market more generally. We should talk about this over lunch sometime.

But you did say we should cultivate our gardens...

Update this to refer to where this content occurs in this article?

Or your increased exposure to life. Another semester spent retaking that class is another semester your car can brake down, your mom can get sick, etc.

I know I've been on you about language this term. Let me continue that theme. What is the risk of lending / borrowing? That the precious item your friend borrowed won't be returned, right? Even here we are trapped in the language and assumptions of private goods, both rival and excludable, when we need language to talk about public goods, both nonrival and nonexcludable. It's a giant pain in the neck to constantly monitor your language against traces of private goods mentality slipping through, but it's a discipline that's necessary to do "this" well.

Zane, this is wonderfully rich. It reminds me of the scene near the end of The Two Towers, where Theoden declares that they will indeed open the doors and join the Battle of Helm's Deep, despite knowing that they are going to their certain deaths. I cried the first time I saw it. Of course I had read it before, but something about seeing it dramatized brought it home to me. Why will people accept these challenges? Why will they fight for a losing cause? It inspired me more deeply than I can say. I appreciated a similar sentiment toward the end of Dr Strange, during the conversation with Dormmamu. D says "You can't win," and Dr Strange replies, "No. But I can lose. Again. And again. And again. Forever."

We must cultivate our gardens.

Can't miss the opportunity to share this with you - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9VwQ_uUhpI Make sure to listen to the song with speakers or headphones that will let you hear the bass.

I would move this up and do it parenthetically.

Y, I had to read this 4 or 5 times to get that I was supposed to but the accent on the second syllable and not the first. Too much "open content" context overshadowing here. :)

I already mentioned how jealous I am of these chapter headings - I wrote ones like them for my dissertation but my chair didn't consider them sufficiently scholarly...

This issue of faculty capability and confidence is another critical one. I'm so glad you highlighted it for us.

This was one of my favorite insights of the semester. I love this analogy.

than... A little more explanation here would be helpful.

Same as above.

textbook and other course materials are tailored

the intellectual propety license

to be

I think there's a great analogy to be made here that you aren't explicitly making. Perhaps faculty's first experience with OER won't be terrific. Maybe they'll hit a few bumps in the road along the way to finding OER that work for them and their students.

This is normally written as (emphasis added) and goes at the end of the quote.

one area where professors can cut costs

Particularly when all your peers already 4 of 5 years of practice balancing these stresses out and they were new to you.

Phrased this way it makes it sound like more education increases likelihood of death?

If we were truly rational, how would our decisions change?

Start with a complete sentence? :) It would be nice to include a little affective piece here as well, not just what you learned but also something about how your attitude or feelings changed. This would serve to interest / hook the reader and give them some motivation to dive in.

Without the broader context of the airplane analogy this phrase is difficult to interpret.

I'd say "a resource in the commons"

I get where you're coming from here. This "open" thing, which seems so radical, is actually kind of mature.

Redundant - you already said "a scholarship" earlier in the sentence.

I like this sentence. I'd suggest keeping it :)

I think you mean when they're assigned OER instead of TPM? Make that more explicit.

... that makes the difference? Seems to trail off here.

about

Y, sounds like a fragment.

Coming off the boat story it feels like there's a rising tide reference that wants to be made here.

platter,

and feeling personally attacked. (They weren't attacking you personally in these articles, right?

Yes. Maybe "Before I begin this next section, I want to..."

Spoken like a history teacher. :)

It's an interesting exercise to look at why these are free or cheap. Some are ad supported. Some are publicly funded. Others a directly funded but at very low cost per user...

Agreed - this feels like it's trying to be a transition, but it isn't.

The copyright licenses they have created... (They didn't create copyrights)

I've noticed this a couple of times. Creative Commons should be capitalized.

Has IP made us greedy, or did we create the idea of IP because we were already greedy?

I wouldn't include this in the list of examples. "Open" here means something very different.

We're not trained to think about textbooks this way. It's important that we all start thinking this way.

Make sure to include the link to all the articles you reference if there's a free - to - read version available online.

This paragraph is a single run on sentence! :)

If you want to keep the reference here in a footnote, I would move it to the end of this sentence. Otherwise it feels like this is a claim made with no source to back it up.

Isn't it more of a competition effect you're talking about?

I think it's important to bracket or contextualize these links somehow. They're not research-based, right?

Are you sure this is true, or assuming it's true?

Are you sure this is true, or assuming it's true?

Again, a link here?

Since we're working in hypertext, maybe link to the sources of these quotes?

Nice signposting here.

These are quite difference things, education and learning. This open sentence feels like you're hedging. Make a commitment here?

I see now that you've included these links at the bottom. I'd suggest either making them links in the text directly, or giving a more standard in text citation - like Wiley (2012) claims... - so that readers can anticipate this list of references at the end.

Do you want to say something at the end to reconnect these last sections with the focus on financial literacy you had early on?

Link?

Wikipedia isn't software, and so doesn't belong on this list of examples. Unless you mean Mediawiki, the open source software that powers WIkipedia.

This was one of my favorite insights from this semester. I've never heard anyone make this connection before.

can be, not are. OER can be as effective as traditional publisher materials.

I know you can link to this one. :)

Again, link or page number?

Is there a link available for this? If not, maybe include a page number?

This is a huge requirement, and it's not entirely clear to me why it's necessary for the entire field of education to agree. Are you sure you really mean this? Perhaps you mean only within financial literacy?

Link?

Link?

This is the first reference to this survey, unless it is an unnamed source of information you provided above?

Link

This is quite a list of things potential students need. How do we get them from here to there?

Is this an oxymoron?

Love this quote.

This is such an important point...

This is the second time you've made a claim like this. What is it based on? If it's based on your personal experience that's fine - please just bracket your comment this way. "It has been my experience that..."

Link?

Can you link to these?

In many cases these were never in the window to begin with, right? Most faculty have never had a single course on teaching.

This is an excellent connection!

Eventually, OER and open education have to move beyond dealing with issues of negative liberty and begin addressing issues of positive liberty.

Think about the relationship between scarcity and (supply and demand). Scarcity is the foundation on which supply and demand is based. What happens to everything we know about economics when things that were scarce become abundant?

This traps us far more than we imagine, even on first reflection.

Why do we continue to obsess about peer-review?

You should try to avoid using the language of physical property when talking about "intellectual property."

How you define happiness will have a lot to do with what is does and doesn't correlate with.

Product + practice.

Could just as easily have been written about the overwhelming majority of educational research.

Why is the favicon for this page the Google Glass "G"?

There's surprisingly little about the scope or audaciousness of the goal here. Isn't it the case that the Foundation prefers bigger, bolder plans?

And "open"? Add open to this list.

Wow. Extremely well said. I wish more people understood this.

I firmly agree with this. At the same time, "If you don't build it, they can't come."

Isn't it antithetical to want to see evidence of an innovation someone is asking for funding to create? Maybe some other wording would be appropriate here.

You should probably link this word to the Foundation's definition of "open," since there are many competing ways of thinking about this term.

Awesome description by Jim of how education lost track of the open web.

This likely applies to other areas of design as well.

Inline annotation of words and phrases should increase our ability to discuss, argue, and make progress on specific ideas.

In addition to using language that no one really understands, typing in ALL CAPS is frowned upon in terms of generally accepted norms of Netiquette.

What the heck does this word mean? I've never heard it before...

Seriously. Who talks like this?

This is a generic comment. Shouldn't I be able to draw a rectangle or other shape to point out the specific part of the image I am commenting on?

Maybe other than saying "home" say "support"? What is a "technical home?" Or a "legal home"?

How do you "invest" in people? I understand investing in businesses and nonprofits. Maybe unpack this a little. How is "investing" different from supporting?

This sentence is just awkward. No need for the comma after invests. Maybe just reword this?

person's

How can you tell someone is brilliant, other than looking at their past performance?

Missing a comma after this word.

I'm optimistic about happiness increasing in the world.