{"id":274,"date":"2011-10-28T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/jim-groom-the-wild-man-of-oer-made-my-year\/"},"modified":"2011-10-28T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T20:51:00","slug":"jim-groom-the-wild-man-of-oer-made-my-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/jim-groom-the-wild-man-of-oer-made-my-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Groom: The Wild Man of OER Made My Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the Open Education 2011 conference this week and David Wiley had the good sense to invite <a href=\"http:\/\/jimgroom.net\/\">Jim Groom<\/a> in to rattle cages and shake the chains. I have been reading his stuff for sometime. You can follow him on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jimgroom\">twitter here<\/a> and h<a href=\"http:\/\/bavatuesdays.com\/\">is blog<\/a>&nbsp;is always worth reading,&nbsp;but it is really a whole other experience to meet him in person. As a distance education director, I almost never say that. He is the favorite exuberant uncle who&nbsp;occasionally&nbsp;breaks the furniture. His mind is clear but his soul is mad. and here he is at his Dionysian best:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pud46fxRlts\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We need folks like Jim to remind us that there are political consequences to our choices and that passion matters.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0 0 0;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cogdogblog.com\/2011\/10\/26\/jim-groom-keynote-recap\/\">The Jim Groom Post Keynote Recap<\/a> (cogdogblog.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cogdogblog.com\/2011\/10\/26\/are-you-ds106-experienced\/\">Are You [ds106] Experienced?<\/a> (cogdogblog.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cogdogblog.com\/2011\/10\/27\/ds106-radio-vinyl-revolution\/\">The ds106 radio Vinyl \/ Revolution Session with Gardner Campbell<\/a> (cogdogblog.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/post\/56118\/rd\">Taking OER beyond the OER Community<\/a> (downes.ca)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=c94a06db-8ae3-4a81-bca8-12252e639b12\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the Open Education 2011 conference this week and David Wiley had the good sense to invite Jim Groom in to rattle cages and shake the chains. I have been reading his stuff for sometime. You can follow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/jim-groom-the-wild-man-of-oer-made-my-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,87],"tags":[581,459],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oer","category-open-educational-resources","tag-opened2011","tag-unesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}