tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719550.post8009750678541665807..comments2023-11-13T04:55:40.769-05:00Comments on Tuttle SVC: The Future of Digital ContentTom Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577165613934129833noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719550.post-79773224148363678222008-07-01T16:44:00.000-04:002008-07-01T16:44:00.000-04:00Hello, Tom,As you point out, this isn't difficult ...Hello, Tom,<BR/><BR/>As you point out, this isn't difficult -- a simple distributed publishing platform can be built using GPL'ed tools. I described how to do this a few months ago here: http://funnymonkey.com/oers-publishing-easy-part<BR/><BR/>It's worth noting that all this works NOW. It's not vaporware. It's real.Doot-de-doohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09566914617392278380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719550.post-61416199893662940542008-07-01T14:36:00.000-04:002008-07-01T14:36:00.000-04:00I'm not really advocating a strongly federalized s...I'm not really advocating a strongly federalized system. The reason distributed version control and good metadata are important is to allow management of alternate versions and components. <BR/><BR/>If you did have, say, an NSF science curriculum, it wouldn't be mandated, but essentially instead of buying a textbook, for the same price you'd get their free resources, plus an XO and probes, for more or less the same price. <BR/><BR/>Whatever else you do with the XO is gravy.Tom Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08577165613934129833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719550.post-78687942237022334632008-07-01T14:12:00.000-04:002008-07-01T14:12:00.000-04:00I totally agree; this is where much of the revolut...I totally agree; this is where much of the revolutionary potential of e-learning lies. Of course, you point out the problem, as well: “About fifty percent of the human race is middle men and they don’t take kindly to being eliminated,” (In Capt. Malcolm Reynolds' words). <BR/><BR/>The other problem, though, is the regional tradition in US education. Unlike, say, France's system where on a given day pretty much every nth-grade student in the country is learning the same thing, US districts like their autonomy. Centralization in a strongly federalized system is always going to be met with some resistance; indeed I think that there are some good arguments to be made for preserving some of this regional control.<BR/><BR/>How the system as a whole negotiates the tensions between autonomy and powerful economies of scale will be interesting.jasonpriemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17091601097240380496noreply@blogger.com