OER support the practice of open ed-ucation, an umbrella term for the mix of open content, practices, policies, and communities that, properly leveraged, can provide broad access to effective learning opportunities for everyone.

Working in an open education envi-ronment might better prepare students for work in today’s in-creasingly collaborative and interdisciplinary workplaces.

Many practitioners argue that open education could be positioned as a core education prac-tice, with learners producing, evaluating, using, revising, and shar-ing OER

Open Education: Content

OER support the practice of open ed-ucation, an umbrella term for the mix of open content, practices, policies, and communities that, properly leveraged, can provide broad access to effective learning materials for everyone.

Digital and Information Literacy Framework

The Open Revolution Rewriting the rules of the information age

Reimagining the Higher Education Ecosystem

Transparency agendas are being used to legislate against consortial open-access models even though it has good cost outcomes

Insight & Analysis into Modern Marketing Practices

The Students at the Center Hub is a resource for educators, families, students and communities wanting to learn more about research, best practices, supportive policies, and how to talk about student-centered approaches to learning.

The survey results are most clear in defining how the ORFG should approach openinfrastructure issues, and less clear as to what specific opportunities should be our focus. Asan organization, there is some enthusiasm for concentrating on projects that (1) are notredundant in the landscape, (2) have some track record, (3) require a finite (as opposed toongoing) commitment; and (4) are straightforward to pitch to internal funder stakeholders andgrantees.

Keith Webster and David Scherer

Developing the Scholarly Communication Ecosystem [podcast]

Students have taken the technology and used it for what the technology is able to do."

Are they invested in their own learning?

Students also frequent other online sharing resources

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Harvesting Academic Innovation for Learners

higher education has always existed in the complex domain because it is a human system rather than a mechanical one

George Siemens suggests that the Cynefin framework may be the "best guidance . . . on how to function in our current context."

Although we graduate students into the larger economy, we educate them not to serve it but to shape it.

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The Open Education Tools Symposium, hosted by Hypothes.is in January 2017—with the support of the HewlettFoundation—for the express purpose of identifying the gaps and needs in OER technical infrastructure foundthat “even with the close focus on OER technical infrastructure, the conversations over the two-day event were wide ranging and often lingered on broader questions facing the OER movement: who exactly are we building for; is it really working?....no complete picture of the gaps in OER tooling became apparent during the symposium...”.

Google and HTTP

A purpose that is vague or general, such as for instance ‘Improving users’ experience’, ‘marketing purposes’, or ‘future research’ will – without further detail – usually not meet the criteria of being ‘specific’”.[

The GDPR permits the opt-out approach when the purposes that the companies want to use the data for are “compatible” with the original purpose for which personal data were shared by users.[6] In addition to the opt-out notice, users also have to be told of their right to object at any time to the use of their data for direct marketing.[7]

Big ‘Open’ Educational Resources Provider Joins Forces With Microsoft

An Open Approach to Scholarly Reading and Knowledge Management

Today, while many benefit from the past contributions of members of the OER community, the sustainability of the movement itself is directly related to the future health and vibrancy of new community contributions.

Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship

commercial OER publishers

the OER movement benefits and is itself enriched from the broad participation of individuals

to download and  share

to download

we must practice conspicuous attribution

Locating people at the center of the CARE Framework serves to remind us first and foremost of the broader social context and purpose of the OER movement.

the predominant business models of the educational technology and publishing industries have been predicated on the concept of access limitations and scarcity

reused, adapted, and shared

It aims to address the question of how an individual, institution, or organization seeking to be a good steward can contribute to the growth and sustainability of the OER movement consistent with the community’s values.

how we might sustainably scale the movement over time and across diverse contexts, while still staying true to the values of openness that attracted so many to OER in the first place

analogous “open” efforts

issues such as

unrestricted by traditional copyright

Lisa Petrides

C. Edward Watson

Douglas Levin

A Guide to Good OER Stewardship

Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship

The CARE Framework

The CARE Framework

OER, CARE, Stewardship, and the Commons

Inaugural Study Finds Nearly 15 Million Americans Earning Billions in the New Creative Economy

Most of the world’s most intractable problems have not gone unsolved because of a lack of ingenuity. They’ve gone unsolved because they exist within complex, interlocking systems that must be healed concurrently over generations.

OA Publishing Tools

An A-Z list of scholarly publishing platforms (Updated 10 Feb 2018)

Decision-making criteria

K-12 Media Literacy No Panacea for Fake News, Report Argues

A better marketing plan for your open source software project The history and evolution of marketing in open source demonstrates a need for new approaches.

Stringing beads: from tool combinations to workflows

Teaching, Learning, and IT Issues: Points of Intersection

The IT and the T&L visions are thus fairly congruent: integrating disparate applications so that they offer our communities a consolidated environment and more customizable functionality. These are invigorating and also daunting challenges.

with more data comes more responsibility

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Key Issues in Teaching and Learning surveys

EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues

Strategic Planning with Remote Teams: Does it really work?

“If we just reward content based on raw clicks and engagement, we might actually see content that is increasingly sensationalist, clickbaity, polarizing, and divisive,” she says. A social network that rewards only clicks, not subscriptions, is like a dating service that encourages one-night stands but not marriages.

“Social networks enable malicious actors to operate at platform scale, because they were designed for fast information flows and virality,”

Zuckerberg’s conference room (called the Aquarium) and Sandberg’s (called Only Good News)

Simultaneously, authority over the algorithm shifted to a team of engineers based in Seattle. Very quickly the module started to surface lies and fiction.

“We traced the creation of the Facebook accounts to IP addresses at the Apple store a block away from the MySpace offices in Santa Monica,”

If Facebook didn’t start offering a better deal to the publishing industry, Thomson and Murdoch conveyed in stark terms, Zuckerberg could expect News Corp executives to become much more public in their denunciations and much more open in their lobbying.

whether News Feed should be modified to better deal with some of the most complex issues facing the product. Does it favor posts that make people angry? Does it favor simple or even false ideas over complex and true ones?

As often happens when outsiders meet with Facebook, people used the time to try to figure out how they could get more followers for their own pages.

Facebook decided, too, that it had to extend an olive branch to the entire American right wing, much of which was raging about the company’s supposed perfidy.

But it’s hard to argue that this wasn’t an editorial decision. It may be one of the biggest ever made.

Facebook has long seemed to think it has immunity from those debates because it is just a technology company—one that has built a “platform for all ideas.”

When new recruits come in, they are treated to an orientation lecture by Chris Cox, the company’s chief product officer, who tells them Facebook is an entirely new communications platform for the 21st century, as the telephone was for the 20th. But if anyone inside Facebook is unconvinced by religion, there is also Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act to recommend the idea.

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Top 10 IT Issues, 2018: The Remaking of Higher Education

IT organizations will be focusing on four areas this year: Institutional adaptiveness IT adaptiveness Improved student outcomes Improved decision-making

But Alphabet did flag “misleading” information and “objectionable content” as risks to the company’s financial performance in its annual report this week, for the first time ever.

Remote collaboration pain? Try a dash of Google Drawings!

competency-based education and new methods of assessment (from #5 to #16)

See how the results of the latest ELI Key Issues in Teaching and Learning Survey stack up against responses from years past.

Key Issues in Teaching and Learning

Open Education

Digital and Information Literacies

Digital Literacy

Digital Literacyin Higher Education, Part II

Policy Recommendations on Open Education in Europe (OpenEdu Policies)

The Commission proposes to fund a European Commission Open Research Publishing Platform ('the platform') The main aim of the platform is to offer Horizon 2020 beneficiaries a free and fast publication possibility for peer reviewed articlesas well as pre-prints resulting from Horizon 2020 funding.

Antigonish 2.0: A Way for Higher Ed to Help Save the Web

In global terms, digital inequalities continue to be well-documented and, in many instances, divides across lines of geography, gender, age, physical abilities, socio-economic status, language, and educational attainment are growing.

Higher Education, Digital Divides, and a Balkanized Internet

the first and second digital divides

FROM GOOD INTENTIONS TO REAL OUTCOMESEquity by DEsign in LEarning tEchnoLogiEs

free online learning materials disproportionately benefit the affluent and highly educated

open online courses,

a legacy of discrimination that’s still being felt today

But the act of redlining areas meant that homeowners who got in trouble during the Depression wouldn’t be eligible for a bailout. “It became a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

redlining

Open Educational Resources Used in Various Colleges and Universities

Require and support K-12 attack skills for complexity

Require and support entrepreneurship training and experience

Where possible, build work and earn ladders linked to family wage employment with growth potential.

Don’t encourage college without supporting the development of a plan and a sense of purpose.

Encourage students to develop a digital portfolio of personal bests and LinkedIn profile with posts, connections and references.

Support at least two extended challenges with public products in high school.

Support at least two successful performing arts experiences in high school.

Support at least two successful workplace experiences in high school.

Give every family access to a free accelerated AA degree

Make dual enrollment credits transferable to every state HigherEd institution

Encourage at least two college credits in high school

Regions with higher education levels will win in the automation economy

12 New Rules: Accelerated Learning for an Exponential World

Vision and Mission Statements -- a Roadmap of Where You Want to Go and How to Get There

Unlike many other rock musicians of his generation, he personally disapproved of and seldom used drugs, but supported their decriminalization and regulation.

Frank Zappa

fake consultation

Working

Open is a Verb

Endless Possibilities

Stuart Hall explained in his seminal work on reception theory

Debunks themselves can be considered a form of engagement.

mis-, dis- and mal- information

What we see unfolding right before our eyes is nothing less than Moore’s Law applied to the distribution of mis-information: an exponential growth of available technology coupled with a rapid collapse of costs.

What could technology companies do?Create an international advisory council.Provide researchers with the data related to initiatives aimed at improving public discourse.Provide transparent criteria for any algorithmic changes that down-rank content.Work collaboratively.Highlight contextual details and build visual indicators.Eliminate financial incentives.Crack down on computational amplification.Adequately moderate non-English content.Pay attention to audio/visual forms of mis- and dis-information.Provide metadata to trusted partners.Build fact-checking and verification tools.Build ‘authenticity engines’.Work on solutions specifically aimed at minimising the impact of filter bubbles:a. Let users customize feed and search algorithms. b. Diversify exposure to different people and views. c. Allow users to consume information privately d. Change the terminology used by the social networks.

Rather than simply thinking about communication as the transmission of information from one person to another, we must recognize that communication plays a fundamental role in representing shared beliefs. It is not just information, but drama — “a portrayal of the contending forces in the world.

visual content is just as widespread and much harder to identify and debunk

interpreters

Mis-information is when false information is shared, but no harm is meant.Dis-information is when false information is knowingly shared to cause harm.Mal-information is when genuine information is shared to cause harm, often by moving information designed to stay private into the public sphere.

we refrain from using the term ‘fake news’, for two reasons

mis-, dis- and mal- information

we are witnessing something new: information pollution at a global scale; a complex web of motivations for creating, disseminating and consuming these ‘polluted’ messages; a myriad of content types and techniques for amplifying content; innumerable platforms hosting and reproducing this content; and breakneck speeds of communication between trusted peers

COLLABORATION: Connected teachers work collaboratively. CURIOSITY: Connected teachers bring an inquiry mindset to classroom practice. COURAGE: Connected teachers give up some of their control over the learning experience. CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: Connected teachers engage their students in public life. CARE: Connected teachers share their interests and learning with their students.

In the 1960s and 70s, the hippie movement tried to pull together a “whole earth” movement, but then the world swung back toward the consumer and consumption culture of today.

I published my own set of core principles for an authoring & publishing tool.

After our talk, Nate Angell from Hypothesis asked me if I’d be willing to write up a blog post describing in more detail what we’re doing with web annotation specifically. And so here we are.

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Decide how to decide, ahead of time

Avoiding the trap of low-knowledge, high-confidence theories

lazy dog

needless

A needless consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind.

One must also be able to annotate links, as well as nodes, privately.

give students the opportunity to become critical and engaged citizens who have the knowledge and courage to struggle in order to make desolation and cynicism unconvincing and hope practical

developing a discourse of both critique and possibility, or what I have called a discourse of educated hope

the need to translate private troubles into broader public issues

educators need to enable students to develop a comprehensive vision of society that extends beyond single issues

engage in an ongoing struggle for the right of students to be given a free formidable and critical education not dominated by corporate values

What is often lost by many educators and progressives is that popular culture is a powerful form of education for many young people, and yet it is rarely addressed as a serious source of knowledge

developing alternative public spheres

They must also learn how to be cultural producers

educators need to develop a comprehensive educational program that would include teaching students how to live in a world marked by multiple overlapping modes of literacy extending from print to visual culture and screen cultures

educators need to consider defining pedagogy, if not education itself, as central to producing those democratic public spheres that foster an informed citizenry

a revival of the social imagination and the defense of the public good, especially in regard to higher education

a discourse of both critique and possibility

connect reading the word with reading the world

Education is never innocent: It is always implicated in relations of power and specific visions of the present and future.

any pedagogical practice presupposes some notion of the future, prioritizes some forms of identification over others and values some modes of knowing over others

create those public spaces for students to address how knowledge is related to the power of both self-definition and social agency. In part, this suggests providing students with the skills, ideas, values and authority necessary for them not only to be well-informed and knowledgeable across a number of traditions and disciplines, but also to be able to invest in the reality of a substantive democracy

Examples of such violence can be seen in the forms of an audit culture and empirically-driven teaching that dominates higher education. These educational projects amount to pedagogies of repression and serve primarily to numb the mind and produce what might be called dead zones of the imagination. These are pedagogies that are largely disciplinary and have little regard for contexts, history, making knowledge meaningful, or expanding what it means for students to be critically engaged agents.

viewing public and higher education as democratic public spheres necessitates rejecting the notion that they should be reduced to sites for training students for the workforce

audit culture (a culture characterized by a call to be objective and an unbridled emphasis on empiricism)

what Gary Olson and Lynn Worsham describe as "that very moment in which identities are being produced and groups are being constituted, or objects are being created

pedagogy is always political because it is connected to the acquisition of agency

a pedagogy of repression

All the while, these forces are undercutting public faith in the defining institutions of democracy.

Far more than a teaching method, education is a moral and political practice actively involved not only in the production of knowledge, skills and values but also in the construction of identities, modes of identification, and forms of individual and social agency.

civic literacy

Thinking dangerously is not only the cornerstone of critical agency and engaged citizenship, it's also the foundation for a working democracy.

Critical and dangerous thinking is the precondition for nurturing the ethical imagination that enables engaged citizens to learn how to govern rather than be governed.

In the present moment, it becomes particularly important for educators and concerned citizens all over the world to protect and enlarge the critical formative educational cultures and public spheres that make democracy possible.

What is the objective, what is the definition of success, as academia and its libraries engage in issues of scholarly communication? Answering this question crisply and with a clear sense of priority may allow libraries to evaluate their investments, and to organize, staff, and run their operations, with greater focus.

Who Owns Digital Science?

When is a Publisher not a Publisher? Cobbling Together the Pieces to Build a Workflow Business

Putting the Red Light, Green Light Model Into Practice

Red Light, Green Light Aligning the Library to Support Licensing

Reflections on “Elsevier Acquires bepress”

Premium mediocrity is a stand-in for the classy kind of post-scarcity digital utopia some of us like to pretend is already here, only unevenly distributed.

The plan will add anywhere from 5 to 7 trillion dollars to our deficit.

A Brief History of Domain of One’s Own, Part 1

Documenting a Domain of One’s Own