Guild Quest #4

Guild Quest #4 has been all about advancing our open Personal Finance course. There has been a great deal of discussion about whether the deliverable should be a complete course with assessments, instructions, and so forth.

While attending a meeting of the Open High School of Utah, I was able to talk with their curriculum developer. He made a rather convincing argument that he would prefer that we deliver a set of open resources aligned with Utah state curriculum standards. He said that instructors would want to individualize courses by implementing their own instructions, unique content, and assessments.

A resource pool aligned with state standards is certainly more efficient that a content complete course. Perhaps that should be the focus of the OCW community for some period of time. Creating resource pools, instead of complete courses, would build out the base of OCW content more quickly and could attract users more quickly, helping the OCW community reach the critical mass it will take to be sustainable long term.

Again, this blurs the line between OCW and OER. I've long felt that many "OCW" schools are actually publishing OER stuff. I guess it's an evolution and any progress toward "open" will benefit the masses.

Here's the link to our current list of resources. We are looking forward to presenting it tomorrow. Lot's of last minute changes tonight :)

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pkEgScMtxs-CZCuPoe_3eaQ&inv=justinj@byu.edu&t=5055627048556804565&guest