Will 2012 be the year of sharing in education?

Dogs in Strollers by Joel Abroad

Let's hope so.   Paul Stacey looks at some of the changes that have been brewing, I'm particularly intrigued by the end of commercial textbooks, as a textbook writer myself I don't see this as such a bad thing (sorry Peter Singer, you'll have to go back to end of the queue...).    Good links in this article, particularly to some of the open source image initiatives, like the photo on this page.

http://edtechfrontier.com/2011/12/21/2011-the-year-of-open/ 

The Udacity of it all...

http://theconversation.edu.au/open-sesame-taking-university-education-to-the-world-via-the-web-5053

More information on the open education movement, looking at Udacity and MITx.  Will it be a revolution?  Only time will tell, but I think there is a lot of potential for transitioning students who just want to pick up one unit to see if they are going to succeed in further education.