Open-Source Learning:
an educational philosophy
for the information age

Everyone loves learning. The problem is our formal system of education. My name is David Preston. I work with students, teachers, and organizational leaders to develop learning experiences that immediately…

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David Preston

DAVID PRESTON is a teacher, speaker, writer, and consultant who has taught university and K-12 courses for 25 years.

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Will this blog see tomorrow?

A student's first impression of Open Source Learning. Below is a post I wrote to students after our first day of class. Remember what your first day of class was…

Achieve the impossible

How one student used Open Source Learning to transform a high school English course and learn to fly. Flying an airplane and becoming a pilot are a long way from…

Learning without a ceiling

A high school student turned her classmates loose in the wild to teach us all about nature, engineering, and ourselves.   Over Memorial Day weekend 2014 my daughter and I…

We were extremely impressed by Dr. Preston’s ability to blend timeless principles with modern technology in ways that brought stories to life and made the impossible possible.

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