Openness in Education
Reuse, redistribute, revise, remix.
Successful educator - shares the most thoroughly with the most students
Ideas can be shared without losing them. When we express ideas, (books or cd's) only one person can have it at a time. - When we do so digitally, it becomes possible to share.
Dr. Wiley talks about how the principles of supply and demand play into digital textbooks. He says that digital textbooks have unlimited supply. I think that he might be misunderstanding the rule. To me, the question isn't how many of one product you have, but it is how many different versions or options of that product exist. If one company has the only textbook for biology, it doesn't matter how many copies they have, they will know they are the only source and sell it high. When several companies are selling the same product (and aren't organized like OPEC) they are competing, and the market and cost will equalize much less than the first scenario. The issue isn't so much that digital copies are limitless, it is that there aren't enough quality choices and options to undercut the big bad publisher.
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