OpenCourseWare All Grown Up: Hal Abelson at the RIT GCCIS Dean's Lecture Series

The Rochester Institute of Technology Gollisano College Dean's Lecture Series established in 2003 was "designed to expose 'real world' experts to our students and to provide professional development opportunities for our alumni and community friends." Last year brought Walter Bender of Sugar Labs to speak with the crowd about another world-class FOSS campaign brought to us by the MIT Media Lab.

This year, Abelson gave the audience an update on all things OER, (open educational resources) and the new Center for Mobile Learning at MIT. We don't know much about about the brand-new CML (other than it has three component projects thusfar: AppInventor, Scratch, and The Education Arcade), so let's talk about OER...