Saturday, November 7, 2020

Open Education and Artificial Scarcity in Hard Times - RORY MIR, EFF

 Right now there is a global collaborative effort among the world's educators and librarians to provide high-quality, free, and up-to-date education materials to all with little restriction. This of course is the global movement towards open education resources (OER). While this tireless effort of thousands of academics may seem complicated, it revolves around a simple idea: Education is a fundamental human right, so if technology enables us to share, reproduce, and update educational materials so effectively that we can give them away for free—it’s our moral duty to do so.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/open-education-and-artificial-scarcity-hard-times