The discovery education model, or the Montessori Method, was created by Maria Montessori (Sprouts, 2016).
John Dewey's philosophy stressed that students should learn by doing.
Karl Popper is considered the father of open thinking (Baker, 2017).
Brown vs. Board of Education is one of several court cases and planned actions that ushered in the fight for equal and open opportunity.
The Open University (OU) was established in the United Kingdom in 1969.
Research should be free of all barriers and distributed to all.
Malcolm Sheperd Knowles is considered the “Father of Andragogy” or adult education.
Richard Stallman disrupts the software industry!
PLA stems from Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) and Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) which were solutions (and in direct conflict) with top-down hierarchal international development movements .
Disrupting the copyright industry...
The Linux kernel operating system first released in 1991 (“Linux,” 2019).
Although GNU/GPL licenses were in wide use, Stallman’s movement did not sit well with everyone. A change was needed.
In 1998, David Wiley released the Open Content License, or OPL. Its purpose was to focus on the educational materials and content.
Larry Lessig was one of the founders of the Creative Commons organization in 200 (Wiley & Gurrell, 2009).
Before Wikipedia, there was Nupedia.
In 2002, a group of faculty at MIT decided to lead and contribute to online education by giving away its course material (Wiley & Gurrell, 2009). The goal was to give away access to its valuable faculty research.
Connectivism was introduced in 2005 by George Siemens and Stephen Doowns.
In 2008, Dave Cormier coined the term Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) in response to a class being led by George Siemens and Stephen Downes called Connectivism and Connective knowledge (CCK08) (“Massive open online course,” 2019).
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