David Wiley
David Wiley is the found and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learner as well as a former Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University.
David Wiley came up with the term, "open content" which seeks to open content for use to lower the cost of educational materials whilst also increasing their quality by unlocking them from copyright protections.
He founded and currently runs Lumen Learning which is predicated on his ideas about Open Content and focuses on opening content for a variety of learners to increase quality and effectiveness of education towards at-risk learners as well as provide a more equitable education for all.
His most cited works are as follows:
Wiley, D. (2000). Connecting learning objects to instructional design theory.
Wiley, D. (2002). The instructional use of learning objects.
Wiley, D. (2000). Learning object design and sequencing theory.
Caswell, T., Henson, S., Jenson, M., Wiley, D. (2008). Open educational resources: Enabling universal education. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning 19 (4).
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