Alex EnkerliMar 1, 2023

How could #OpenEducation and #OpenEdTech provide an alternative to #VCfunding and the #AcademiaIndustrialComplex focused on commercial #EdTech?

> "the explicit claim that VC-funded EdTech is all that stands between the failing “traditional model” of higher education and a blood-moon-lighted Ragnarök for American capitalism."

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/jason-wingards-edtech-griftopia/

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Los Angeles Review of Books

Los Angeles Review of Books
Show thread@weblearningMar 1, 2023
@enkerli @openedtech Hi Alex. Good questions. I’d suggest that if you are really looking for answers to open’s contributions to education (globally), then these questions need to be asked in the global south, in countries of extreme inequality.
Show threadAlex EnkerliMar 1, 2023
@weblearning Interesting points.
For the part about extreme inequality, that sure is part of something we need to acknowledge. Including #GlobalInequalities (as per the title of a course by one of mentors). There's a lot to unpack, there. Depending how you measure it, the context for that article is as extremely unequal as one can fathom (especially since they measure life by wealth, over there).
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@enkerli Hi Alex. Sorry for the delayed reply. Thanks for your thoughts. There’s so much unpacking to do, and I honestly don’t quite know where to begin. In this part of the world, I can see the benefits of both OER and for profit publishing. Lets’s take early reading books. OER’s make it possible to get multi lingual reading materials into children’s hands. Royalties on for profit text books, give authors a top up, and keep in the English children book chain alive.
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Show threadAlex EnkerliMar 6, 2023

@weblearning At the risk of raising controversy: part of the point, for me, is that there's more to #OpenEducation than "Open Content" (OERs and such). And opening up EdTech is more than leveraging LibreTexts or Pressbooks.
Useful, to me in this case, is Paul Stacey's #LandscapeOfOpen (before he became Executive Director @oeglobal).
https://edtechfrontier.com/2018/02/08/starting-anew-in-the-landscape-of-open/

The #HowMightWe question then brings business models in a broader context. Especially if we overcome #OpenWashing.

Starting Anew in the Landscape of Open

Paul Stacey