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Freeing Your Materials

A paper entitled "Freeing Your Materials" by Douglas Perkins. Published in The Word , Hawai‘i TESOL. Volume 25, Issue 2, pg. 3-4. The problem in the education world is that teachers and professors spend hours upon hours every year writing tests and homework that only get used once, in one classroom. Teachers go to great lengths to develop high quality materials, but sharing them takes extra time, and so we don't. I think teachers ought to put a stronger emphasis on collaboration. First of all, we should post our work online. Second, we should freely license it. When teachers work together to freely license and share their materials with others, we can build on each other’s' work. This gives teachers greater access to high quality materials, which in turn makes for a better educational experience.

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