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The President and Fellows of Harvard College
Confessions of a Fundamentalist
It has been asserted that I am a free and open-source (FOSS) fundamentalist and that the use of open-source software has become one of the project's ends instead of its means, to its detriment. I confess that I am a fundamentalist—about learning. That is not to say I am not passionate about FOSS, but as the means, not the end, towards a "constructionist" learning model.
In this talk, I will come clean about my fundamentalist tendencies and argue why I believe we should not be agnostic about learning or the tools we develop to support it. I will also outline some research challenges that we face in light of this opportunity for change.