Many online courses have been using WordPress to deliver the syllabus and content for quite a while now. I used to teach courses that basically kept the syllabus and discussion on a WordPress blog that was embedded into a Blackboard course shell. Adam Croom of Oklahoma University took that idea to the next level by using GitHub to host his course content (in place of WordPress or an LMS). GitHub is basically a great place to share open content that you don’t mind getting forked. That is forked, not… something else 🙂 GitHub is popular among people that want to openly share code, but it can be used for anything else that people imagine. Forking is basically a process where someone can copy content to their account and then update their copy of it. The trail of what was forked and what was updated is preserved, so you can see where ideas came from and how they developed. This is an innovative idea in course design for subjects that are more interested in development of ideas in conjunction with others. We focus so much on plagiarism in education that we often miss how remixing and reimagining ideas is an actual skill needed by learners today. Be sure to read Adam’s post for some good food for thought, or watch the video above for an intro to GitHub.