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2013 was an amazing year; between founding
+Coursefork, building
soundtrack.io and
para.io, working with several amazing startups [1], and being allowed to call myself a peer to some of the smartest people I know all throughout, it has been a year of both great achievement and personal growth. This sets an incredibly compelling stage for 2014 and everything to come therein.
Today, I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining the likes of Jeff Garzik [2], Patrick Nagurny, and Ian Patton under the leadership of CTO Stephen Pair at
+Bitpay, which allows anyone to quickly and seamlessly accept Bitcoin as payment, settling immediately in any currency, including USD.
Bitcoin has become one of the biggest stories of 2013, having grown over 9000% in value [3] and even surpassing Western Union in transaction volume [4]. As potentially the most counterfeit-proof form of payment in history, Bitcoin is poised to become one of the most disruptive technologies since the invention of the Internet as society moves increasingly into decentralized systems in an era of waning trust and increasing technological awareness by growing economies like China, India, and Brazil [5].
Taking advantage of this trend of decentralization, BitPay is perfectly positioned to serve as the mechanism for BitCoin's mass-adoption as massive merchants such as
+Overstock.com move to accept this new form of payment. It's exciting to be involved with a company in this position at such an early stage, and expand the breadth of my experience to include another decentralized system, and
especially to be holding the responsibility of expanding the company's open-source initiatives and engaging the developer community in a meaningful way.
After parting ways with Coursefork late last year, I've taken a seat on the Board of Advisors, allowing the amazing team we built to realize the vision of open-sourcing the world of education [6] under the leadership of CTO
+Brian Marks. Brian was previously the CTO of successful education startup WebAssign [7], and will be an excellent steward of Coursefork's team and technology as they move towards the much-needed decentralization and open-sourcing of the education industry. My best wishes to the team as they endeavor to do so!
Exciting times all around, and I'm truly lucky to be a part of it in so many ways. Now let's go make the world a better place.
[1]: One of which, DigaForce, was just acquired:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2014/01/02/apex-tech-firm-strategic-link-partners.html?page=all — congratulations to
+Anthony Pompliano and
+Matthew Cotter!
[2]: Jeff is one of the core developers of Bitcoin and a former
+Red Hat team member from Raleigh. How's that for the Triangle Company Family tree,
+Derrick Minor?!
[3]:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/29/which-currency-is-up-over-9000-this-year-and-sells-for-almost-as-much-as-an-ounce-of-gold/[4]:
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-can-be-the-new-western-union-2013-12[5]: You might recall that in March of 2013, the Cypriot government restricted withdrawals and then utilized citizens' bank accounts
directly to bail out their banking system, resulting in a surge in Bitcoin prices as individuals fled the fiat currency:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/28/investing/bitcoin-cyprus/[6]: Here's an interview I did while CTO of Coursefork with
+Jason Hibbets from
+Opensource.com that explains the vision:
http://opensource.com/education/13/9/coursefork-education-tool[7]: As a cofounder and CTO at WebAssign for 13 years, Brian took the education company from zero to over $30M in yearly revenue before becoming my co-founder at Coursefork.
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Stephen Pair: BitCoin Economy
Stephen Pair, Cofounder and CTO, BitPay on doing business in the BitCoin economy.
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Onward, and Ever Upward2013 was an amazing year; between founding
+Coursefork, building
soundtrack.io and
para.io, working with several amazing startups [1], and being allowed to call myself a peer to some of the smartest people I know all throughout, it has been a year of both great achievement and personal growth. This sets an incredibly compelling stage for 2014 and everything to come therein.
Today, I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining the likes of Jeff Garzik [2], Patrick Nagurny, and Ian Patton under the leadership of CTO Stephen Pair at
+Bitpay, which allows anyone to quickly and seamlessly accept Bitcoin as payment, settling immediately in any currency, including USD.
Bitcoin has become one of the biggest stories of 2013, having grown over 9000% in value [3] and even surpassing Western Union in transaction volume [4]. As potentially the most counterfeit-proof form of payment in history, Bitcoin is poised to become one of the most disruptive technologies since the invention of the Internet as society moves increasingly into decentralized systems in an era of waning trust and increasing technological awareness by growing economies like China, India, and Brazil [5].
Taking advantage of this trend of decentralization, BitPay is perfectly positioned to serve as the mechanism for BitCoin's mass-adoption as massive merchants such as
+Overstock.com move to accept this new form of payment. It's exciting to be involved with a company in this position at such an early stage, and expand the breadth of my experience to include another decentralized system, and
especially to be holding the responsibility of expanding the company's open-source initiatives and engaging the developer community in a meaningful way.
After parting ways with Coursefork late last year, I've taken a seat on the Board of Advisors, allowing the amazing team we built to realize the vision of open-sourcing the world of education [6] under the leadership of CTO
+Brian Marks. Brian was previously the CTO of successful education startup WebAssign [7], and will be an excellent steward of Coursefork's team and technology as they move towards the much-needed decentralization and open-sourcing of the education industry. My best wishes to the team as they endeavor to do so!
Exciting times all around, and I'm truly lucky to be a part of it in so many ways. Now let's go make the world a better place.
[1]: One of which, DigaForce, was just acquired:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2014/01/02/apex-tech-firm-strategic-link-partners.html?page=all — congratulations to
+Anthony Pompliano and
+Matthew Cotter!
[2]: Jeff is one of the core developers of Bitcoin and a former
+Red Hat team member from Raleigh. How's that for the Triangle Company Family tree,
+Derrick Minor?!
[3]:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/29/which-currency-is-up-over-9000-this-year-and-sells-for-almost-as-much-as-an-ounce-of-gold/[4]:
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-can-be-the-new-western-union-2013-12[5]: You might recall that in March of 2013, the Cypriot government restricted withdrawals and then utilized citizens' bank accounts
directly to bail out their banking system, resulting in a surge in Bitcoin prices as individuals fled the fiat currency:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/28/investing/bitcoin-cyprus/[6]: Here's an interview I did while CTO of Coursefork with
+Jason Hibbets from
+Opensource.com that explains the vision:
http://opensource.com/education/13/9/coursefork-education-tool[7]: As a cofounder and CTO at WebAssign for 13 years, Brian took the education company from zero to over $30M in yearly revenue before becoming my co-founder at Coursefork.
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Stephen Pair: BitCoin Economy
Stephen Pair, Cofounder and CTO, BitPay on doing business in the BitCoin economy.
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Onward, and Ever Upward2013 was an amazing year; between founding
+Coursefork, building
soundtrack.io and
para.io, working with several amazing startups [1], and being allowed to call myself a peer to some of the smartest people I know all throughout, it has been a year of both great achievement and personal growth. This sets an incredibly compelling stage for 2014 and everything to come therein.
Today, I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining the likes of Jeff Garzik [2], Patrick Nagurny, and Ian Patton under the leadership of CTO Stephen Pair at
+Bitpay, which allows anyone to quickly and seamlessly accept Bitcoin as payment, settling immediately in any currency, including USD.
Bitcoin has become one of the biggest stories of 2013, having grown over 9000% in value [3] and even surpassing Western Union in transaction volume [4]. As potentially the most counterfeit-proof form of payment in history, Bitcoin is poised to become one of the most disruptive technologies since the invention of the Internet as society moves increasingly into decentralized systems in an era of waning trust and increasing technological awareness by growing economies like China, India, and Brazil [5].
Taking advantage of this trend of decentralization, BitPay is perfectly positioned to serve as the mechanism for BitCoin's mass-adoption as massive merchants such as
+Overstock.com move to accept this new form of payment. It's exciting to be involved with a company in this position at such an early stage, and expand the breadth of my experience to include another decentralized system, and
especially to be holding the responsibility of expanding the company's open-source initiatives and engaging the developer community in a meaningful way.
After parting ways with Coursefork late last year, I've taken a seat on the Board of Advisors, allowing the amazing team we built to realize the vision of open-sourcing the world of education [6] under the leadership of CTO
+Brian Marks. Brian was previously the CTO of successful education startup WebAssign [7], and will be an excellent steward of Coursefork's team and technology as they move towards the much-needed decentralization and open-sourcing of the education industry. My best wishes to the team as they endeavor to do so!
Exciting times all around, and I'm truly lucky to be a part of it in so many ways. Now let's go make the world a better place.
[1]: One of which, DigaForce, was just acquired:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2014/01/02/apex-tech-firm-strategic-link-partners.html?page=all — congratulations to
+Anthony Pompliano and
+Matthew Cotter!
[2]: Jeff is one of the core developers of Bitcoin and a former
+Red Hat team member from Raleigh. How's that for the Triangle Company Family tree,
+Derrick Minor?!
[3]:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/29/which-currency-is-up-over-9000-this-year-and-sells-for-almost-as-much-as-an-ounce-of-gold/[4]:
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-can-be-the-new-western-union-2013-12[5]: You might recall that in March of 2013, the Cypriot government restricted withdrawals and then utilized citizens' bank accounts
directly to bail out their banking system, resulting in a surge in Bitcoin prices as individuals fled the fiat currency:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/28/investing/bitcoin-cyprus/[6]: Here's an interview I did while CTO of Coursefork with
+Jason Hibbets from
+Opensource.com that explains the vision:
http://opensource.com/education/13/9/coursefork-education-tool[7]: As a cofounder and CTO at WebAssign for 13 years, Brian took the education company from zero to over $30M in yearly revenue before becoming my co-founder at Coursefork.
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Stephen Pair: BitCoin Economy
Stephen Pair, Cofounder and CTO, BitPay on doing business in the BitCoin economy.
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Onward, and Ever Upward2013 was an amazing year; between founding
+Coursefork, building
soundtrack.io and
para.io, working with several amazing startups [1], and being allowed to call myself a peer to some of the smartest people I know all throughout, it has been a year of both great achievement and personal growth. This sets an incredibly compelling stage for 2014 and everything to come therein.
Today, I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining the likes of Jeff Garzik [2], Patrick Nagurny, and Ian Patton under the leadership of CTO Stephen Pair at
+Bitpay, which allows anyone to quickly and seamlessly accept Bitcoin as payment, settling immediately in any currency, including USD.
Bitcoin has become one of the biggest stories of 2013, having grown over 9000% in value [3] and even surpassing Western Union in transaction volume [4]. As potentially the most counterfeit-proof form of payment in history, Bitcoin is poised to become one of the most disruptive technologies since the invention of the Internet as society moves increasingly into decentralized systems in an era of waning trust and increasing technological awareness by growing economies like China, India, and Brazil [5].
Taking advantage of this trend of decentralization, BitPay is perfectly positioned to serve as the mechanism for BitCoin's mass-adoption as massive merchants such as
+Overstock.com move to accept this new form of payment. It's exciting to be involved with a company in this position at such an early stage, and expand the breadth of my experience to include another decentralized system, and
especially to be holding the responsibility of expanding the company's open-source initiatives and engaging the developer community in a meaningful way.
After parting ways with Coursefork late last year, I've taken a seat on the Board of Advisors, allowing the amazing team we built to realize the vision of open-sourcing the world of education [6] under the leadership of CTO
+Brian Marks. Brian was previously the CTO of successful education startup WebAssign [7], and will be an excellent steward of Coursefork's team and technology as they move towards the much-needed decentralization and open-sourcing of the education industry. My best wishes to the team as they endeavor to do so!
Exciting times all around, and I'm truly lucky to be a part of it in so many ways. Now let's go make the world a better place.
[1]: One of which, DigaForce, was just acquired:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2014/01/02/apex-tech-firm-strategic-link-partners.html?page=all — congratulations to
+Anthony Pompliano and
+Matthew Cotter!
[2]: Jeff is one of the core developers of Bitcoin and a former
+Red Hat team member from Raleigh. How's that for the Triangle Company Family tree,
+Derrick Minor?!
[3]:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/29/which-currency-is-up-over-9000-this-year-and-sells-for-almost-as-much-as-an-ounce-of-gold/[4]:
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-can-be-the-new-western-union-2013-12[5]: You might recall that in March of 2013, the Cypriot government restricted withdrawals and then utilized citizens' bank accounts
directly to bail out their banking system, resulting in a surge in Bitcoin prices as individuals fled the fiat currency:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/28/investing/bitcoin-cyprus/[6]: Here's an interview I did while CTO of Coursefork with
+Jason Hibbets from
+Opensource.com that explains the vision:
http://opensource.com/education/13/9/coursefork-education-tool[7]: As a cofounder and CTO at WebAssign for 13 years, Brian took the education company from zero to over $30M in yearly revenue before becoming my co-founder at Coursefork.
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Stephen Pair: BitCoin Economy
Stephen Pair, Cofounder and CTO, BitPay on doing business in the BitCoin economy.
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Open Source ALL the Things!I'll be speaking next week at
+The Research Triangle Park about
#OpenSource ,
#education , and
+Coursefork. I'm extremely excited (and humbled!) to be a part of an event that includes speakers from
+Red Hat and
+IBM, especially to speak on a topic that I'm so passionate about. See the full speaker list at the official site!
I hope to see you there. :)
About the EventOpen source. It's faster, cleaner, and more accurate than traditional methodologies -- and it's the culture the Triangle is fast-becoming known for. There's a reason that Red Hat, the first billion-dollar open source company, has built its headquarters here.
For September's “RTP 180," we're celebrating our region's fondness for open source with a speaker series that pulls from our three founding universities (NC State, Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill), companies and communities. On September 17, we hope you will join us from 6:00-7:30, at RTP’s headquarters (12 Davis Drive, Durham, NC), for "RTP 180: Open Source All the Things.”
Our doors open at 5:00 so you can stop in right after work to grab a snack; a reception will follow after the event. We hear there will be tacos and
free beer.
#HackEducation #RTP180 #Raleigh #Durham
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RTP180: Open Source ALL the Things!
*Open Source ALL the Things!*
I'll be speaking next week at +The Research Triangle Park about #OpenSource , #education , and +Coursefork. I'm extremely excited (and humbled!) to be a part of an event that includes speakers from +Red Hat and +IBM, especially to speak on a topic that I'm so passionate about. See the full speaker list at the official site!
I hope to see you there. :)
*About the Event*
Open source. It's faster, cleaner, and more accurate than traditional methodologies -- and it's the culture the Triangle is fast-becoming known for. There's a reason that Red Hat, the first billion-dollar open source company, has built its headquarters here.
For September's “RTP 180," we're celebrating our region's fondness for open source with a speaker series that pulls from our three founding universities (NC State, Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill), companies and communities. On September 17, we hope you will join us from 6:00-7:30, at RTP’s headquarters (12 Davis Drive, Durham, NC), for "RTP 180: Open Source All the Things.”
Our doors open at 5:00 so you can stop in right after work to grab a snack; a reception will follow after the event. We hear there will be tacos and *free beer*.
#HackEducation #RTP180 #Raleigh #Durham
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Entrepreneurship in the Triangle has changed as much in the past five years as it will the next. Question is, linear or exponential growth?
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Great day today; it was Coursefork's first day at Triangle Startup Factory. Incredible amounts of talent and experience in a concentrated area? Yes, please. #LearnEverything
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Coursefork Among Six Chosen For The Startup Factory Fall 2013 Class | !ExitEvent
By now, you probably know that the Triangle's institution of acceleration, the recently renamed Startup Factory, has chosen six young startups to make up their Fall 2013 class.
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It's Triangle Entrepreneurship Week here in North Carolina! Let's get this week off to a great start by reminding ourselves of the best way to be on the right side of the odds: work hard, work smart.
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
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A billion dollar software tech company is founded every 3 months
Ron Conway once said: “There’s a billion company created every 3 months. Now, it is every 2 months”. I finally got the chance compile “The Billion Dollar” list. I tried to limit this list to only...
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Triangle Startup Weekend put on an amazing education-oriented hackathon this weekend, and my team won with our project, Coursefork. Would you believe we built our entire functional prototype, from nothing to MVP, in 53 hours? I'm proud to have been a part of such an amazing team, and am excited to realize the potential of this world-changing idea.
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Coursefork => open source course design - The easiest way to design and teach your course
What if the world's best instructors open sourced their courses? Sign up to be notified when Coursefork's private beta is open and let's find out...
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Unfortunately not,
+James Williams... other duties require me here in the Triangle (an unfortunate conflict of scheduling). You'd have been among the first to know if I was. :)
My cofounder
+Elliott Hauser is giving the presentation, you should make sure to say hello!
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+Coursefork is happy to announce
the Startup Giveback, an initiative for entrepreneurs to donate equity instead of cash to social initiatives, in partnership with
+Shoeboxed and the
+American Underground. All are welcome to our first event, which will be hosted at the Shoeboxed HQ in Durham, NC. 100% of equity will go directly to Startup Endowment, while cash donations at the door of the event will go to the Triangle Community Foundation.
Donations of all sorts, not just equity, are welcome! While we're aiming for a 1% equity donation from each participating company, you're welcome to donate cash either online or at the door of the event. Feel free to leave comments if you have questions! I hope to see you there.
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The Startup Giveback Cookout
*Startup Founders: Donate _Equity_ to Charity!*
+Coursefork is happy to announce *the Startup Giveback*, an initiative for entrepreneurs to donate equity instead of cash to social initiatives, in partnership with +Shoeboxed and the +American Underground. All are welcome to our first event, which will be hosted at the Shoeboxed HQ in Durham, NC. 100% of equity will go directly to Startup Endowment, while cash donations at the door of the event will go to the Triangle Community Foundation.
*Donations of all sorts, not just equity, are welcome!* While we're aiming for a 1% equity donation from each participating company, you're welcome to donate cash either online or at the door of the event. Feel free to leave comments if you have questions! I hope to see you there.
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Why isn't education open-source in the first place?I recently gave a talk at
+The Research Triangle Park about education and open source, and how the freedoms that are necessary for a healthy education system were systematically removed over time. While the slides aren't available in the video, I've uploaded them to
+Coursefork [1].
It's incredibly powerful to lay out the data and show how increased spending and manpower has impacted the quality of education over time: aptitude measurements have stayed flat (or negative!) while test scores and grades continue to inflate. It seems as if we've built a system of education that is extremely good at—wait for it—_getting people to pass standardized tests_.
Companies like
+Khan Academy and
+Coursera are really chipping away at the problem of making the resources available, both content and services (i.e., actual
teaching), but making the content interchangeable and
hackable is of critical importance to building the healthy open source ecosystem that we've seen emerge in the software community (a la
+GitHub) within the world of education.
One day, we'll see the equivalent of the pull request in education. I'm hoping to build it with
+Coursefork.
[1]:
http://coursefork.org/martindale/open-freedom-and-education
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RTP 180: "Open, Freedom, and Education" with Eric Martindale
Eric Martindale of Coursefork talks about the potential power of applying open source principles to education at The Research Triangle Park's RTP 180: "Open ...
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Why isn't education open-source in the first place?I recently gave a talk at
+The Research Triangle Park about education and open source, and how the freedoms that are necessary for a healthy education system were systematically removed over time. While the slides aren't available in the video, I've uploaded them to
+Coursefork [1].
It's incredibly powerful to lay out the data and show how increased spending and manpower has impacted the quality of education over time: aptitude measurements have stayed flat (or negative!) while test scores and grades continue to inflate. It seems as if we've built a system of education that is extremely good at—wait for it—_getting people to pass standardized tests_.
Companies like
+Khan Academy and
+Coursera are really chipping away at the problem of making the resources available, both content and services (i.e., actual
teaching), but making the content interchangeable and
hackable is of critical importance to building the healthy open source ecosystem that we've seen emerge in the software community (a la
+GitHub) within the world of education.
One day, we'll see the equivalent of the pull request in education. I'm hoping to build it with
+Coursefork.
[1]:
http://coursefork.org/martindale/open-freedom-and-education
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RTP 180: "Open, Freedom, and Education" with Eric Martindale
Eric Martindale of Coursefork talks about the potential power of applying open source principles to education at The Research Triangle Park's RTP 180: "Open ...
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Why isn't education open-source in the first place?I recently gave a talk at
+The Research Triangle Park about education and open source, and how the freedoms that are necessary for a healthy education system were systematically removed over time. While the slides aren't available in the video, I've uploaded them to
+Coursefork [1].
It's incredibly powerful to lay out the data and show how increased spending and manpower has impacted the quality of education over time: aptitude measurements have stayed flat (or negative!) while test scores and grades continue to inflate. It seems as if we've built a system of education that is extremely good at—wait for it—_getting people to pass standardized tests_.
Companies like
+Khan Academy and
+Coursera are really chipping away at the problem of making the resources available, both content and services (i.e., actual
teaching), but making the content interchangeable and
hackable is of critical importance to building the healthy open source ecosystem that we've seen emerge in the software community (a la
+GitHub) within the world of education.
One day, we'll see the equivalent of the pull request in education. I'm hoping to build it with
+Coursefork.
[1]:
http://coursefork.org/martindale/open-freedom-and-education
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RTP 180: "Open, Freedom, and Education" with Eric Martindale
Eric Martindale of Coursefork talks about the potential power of applying open source principles to education at The Research Triangle Park's RTP 180: "Open ...
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Why isn't education open-source in the first place?I recently gave a talk at
+The Research Triangle Park about education and open source, and how the freedoms that are necessary for a healthy education system were systematically removed over time. While the slides aren't available in the video, I've uploaded them to
+Coursefork [1].
It's incredibly powerful to lay out the data and show how increased spending and manpower has impacted the quality of education over time: aptitude measurements have stayed flat (or negative!) while test scores and grades continue to inflate. It seems as if we've built a system of education that is extremely good at—wait for it—_getting people to pass standardized tests_.
Companies like
+Khan Academy and
+Coursera are really chipping away at the problem of making the resources available, both content and services (i.e., actual
teaching), but making the content interchangeable and
hackable is of critical importance to building the healthy open source ecosystem that we've seen emerge in the software community (a la
+GitHub) within the world of education.
One day, we'll see the equivalent of the pull request in education. I'm hoping to build it with
+Coursefork.
[1]:
http://coursefork.org/martindale/open-freedom-and-education
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RTP 180: "Open, Freedom, and Education" with Eric Martindale
Eric Martindale of Coursefork talks about the potential power of applying open source principles to education at The Research Triangle Park's RTP 180: "Open ...
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