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  1. Nov 2017
    1. On August 24, 2016 Reveal Digital announced that they were temporarily removing access to the OOB content. The main reason they gave was took this collection down citing minors access to pornography, the privacy concerns I raised and the need to consult with community.

      I wonder what the implications are for sites who maintain copies of old sites.

      Old site

    1. “We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
    2. the Big Ideas classroom mirrors the interdisciplinary research teams that exist across campus—and, importantly, the workplace of the future.
    1. “The role of the teacher is not to deposit bits and bytes of knowledge into students. Rather, teachers must recognize their role as one as one of mentor, even peer, on the journey towards greater justice in society,” the pair write.
    1. I see someone who is trying to destroy open pedagogy, by destroying communities and replacing them with companies.
    2. The difference arises essentially because I consider learning and pedagogy to be non-commercial enterprises.

      and there it is...

    1. Franklin also identifies holistic technology as “…associated with the notion of craft” and involving decisions that can only be made while the work is in process, by the artisan themselves.
    2. holistic, in which the skilled crafts-person could make almost every tool needed, and had much creative control over the entire process, and prescriptive, in which the control is shifted to a hierarchy of managers, and the human is part of a larger machinery. It is the latter meaning of technology that we probably most often encounter, and in my estimation, one that needs to be balanced with the holistic meaning.

      holistic vs. prescriptive

    3. Online Learning Designer
    1. instructors are more likely to work to meet deadlines and goals when they know they’re being judged alongside a team of their peers.
    2. Trial and Error: Online Course Development, Better Together
    3. In addition, the courses are more varied and faculty driven than they were before
    4. They wanted to give faculty members a more active role in creating courses, speed up the process and fully utilize instructional designers.

      active role. ownership.

    5. Instructional designers had also developed a reputation on campus for completing repetitive tasks that instructors preferred not to tackle, such as creating folders in the learning management system and printing documents. Bond describes the dynamic as a “conversionist mentality: here's my stuff, put it online.”

      converisonist mentality

    6. “Every course looked like every other course, regardless of the discipline,”
    1. My blossoming hope is that we can use some of the tools and rhetoric of open to build a public response to the crisis in American public higher education. OER can help us conceive of how the public can generate the materials it needs to support its education, and can help us center access as a key component of any equitable learning environment.

      How can or will institutions better internally support public education in ways that improve access and equity VS. outsourcing personnel, services, platforms, etc. which further adds to the problematic privatization issue.

    2. OER: Bigger Than Affordability
    3. I am most interested to see how the concepts around working open can help us find a way to talk about the value -- in particular the nonmarket social value -- of public higher education, and imagine a sustainable future for our public institutions.

      non-market social value

    4. If OER is appealing because they can help make knowledge more accessible, then we must care about the myriad issues -- from child care to transportation -- that prevent our potential students from even coming to our classrooms in the first place.

      Broader concept of access to education.

  2. Oct 2017
    1. To bridge the digital divide is to figure out ways to do things that make it smart for all Kansas City citizens.”
    1. a study by the Connecticut Board of Governors for Higher Education published in 2006 found that only 58 percent of Connecticut state schools’ faculty knew how much the books they selected for their classes cost.

      Faculty aren't aware or don't care about textbook expenses. I think this is slowly changing for the better, but 58% is pretty bad.

    1. Most of today's educational technology depends on users having Internet access. Students, staff, and faculty must be online in order to participate in learning management systems, digital tests, student information systems, licensed databases, and the entire web. They not only must be reliably online but also need to do so through high-speed connectivity. The digitally networked world is increasingly predicated on users having broadband access.
    1. Providing students with multiple means of perceiving, comprehending, and expressing their learning not only allows for students to engage with the material in a way that most benefits them

      Accessibility vs. Accommodation... Building accessible courses helps ALL students, regardless of their status of ability, as opposed to accommodating to meet the needs of one student.

    2. Helpful overview of UDL.

    1. They know words like constructivism and problem-based learning, but they have never heard of open pedagogy. They know service learning and communities of practice, but they don’t know how to get started in the digital space to make that work connect to others. They don’t know what a domain is but they know it’s a real pain in the ass when you lose access to your teaching materials. They have adopted an Open course, but they haven’t edited anything yet and they have no idea why that matters so much to some people. They know Reading, Writing, and ‘Rithmetic, but they may not know the 5Rs. They don’t care about the theories and ideas I care about. What you may care about.

      The common missing link: institutional support of professional staff to help instructors navigate these water. Why this isn't a priority is mind blowing. The evidence of the impact on students is clearly there, but most of the work to enact this change is falling on contingent labor (primarily at CCs).

    2. I’ve been to 67 schools in one year.

      Holy eff.

    3. I had the privilege of having breakfast with that student panel, and they were even more lovely before they got up on stage.

      Absolutely one of the highlights of #opened17!

    1. "They said it's coming any day now, but they've been saying that for a couple weeks now," said James Martello, a freshman at UAlbany who applied to the four-year state school because of the scholarship. "We already paid the bill, so I assume we'll get it refunded in some way or another."

      seems a little disconcerting...

  3. Sep 2017
    1. A survey by e-textbook provider VitalSource has found that 50 percent of students who delayed buying textbooks because of high prices saw their grades suffer as a result.
    1. The proportions of LMS and SIS are not necessarily representative of market share. We simply took a subset of institutions that had both a SIS and a LMS system listed in our database.
    1. “a higher education professional who is engaged in course design and development and who provides faculty support to aid in the adoption of academic technologies and effective teaching strategies across face-to-face, blended and online modalities.”

      ID definition

    1. Higher education has atomized knowledge by dividing it into disciplines, subdisciplines, and sub-subdisciplines — breaking it up into smaller and smaller unconnected fragments of academic specialization, even as the world looks to colleges for help in integrating and synthesizing the exponential increases in information brought about by technological advances

      Conundrum around increasing specializations and specialized generalists.

    1. Evelyn: Never get on the bad side of small minded people who have a little power.
    1. If the revolutionary part of social media lies in its potential to help marginalized people find a community & to organize, then we need to teach kids where and how to look.

      Yes!

    1. To have them look at their information environments not as vehicles of just self-expression, but as ways to transcend their own prejudices. To read and listen much much more than we speak. And to see what is needed through the lens of privilege – teaching the beauty of deference to the students with self-confidence and social capital, while teaching marginalized students to find communities that can provide them with the self-confidence they need.

      Golden, Holden!

  4. Aug 2017
    1. The thing is, I struggle with self-doubt quite a bit. And the way you conquer self-doubt is to convince yourself that you do belong in the center of the story, that you’ve earned what you’ve got, and in fact you should strive for more. If you walk around thinking that everything you have is illegitimate and that you are not central to some meaningful narrative you’ll never find the energy to make positive change. That doesn’t help anyone. It gets worse: as a male raised in this patriarchal society, that sense of displacement from the center of the narrative can quickly turn inward and gnaw at you. It's a cancer. Heck, even deferring to the expertise of others can feel like failure. So how do privileged men find a new sort of manhood, that can be powerful and driven without being exclusionary? How do I, as a white male, make my peace with deference to others, with being told, occasionally, what to do by people who know better? With stepping aside? With being a bit player in a story where we are sure we could get the lead role?

      Couldn't agree more. Support group, please. At wits end.

    1. Submission Form for Student Work

      waiver form allowing uni to use students' work

      Why not just use CC license?

    1. It intentionally values what is being brought to a design conversation (a user’s experiences, previous design work, etc) rather than trying to always disrupt, destroy, or replace what was previously created
    1. What many of these individuals likely mean when they call higher education a public good is that higher education has positive externalities.

      public good vs. positive externalities

    2. To qualify as a public good, a good must be both nonexcludable and nonrivalrous
    1. Most sporting goods stores or any CO2 gas provider will fill these paintball cylinders for less than $5 (instead of the $25-30 exchange cost with Sodastream)
    1. Without question, there is still value in reducing learning data to symbols for ease and speed of interpretation.
    1. This is a tool to help you build attributions. Click the About box to learn more. As you fill out the form, the app automatically generates the attribution for you.
    1. Is this just-in-time support or something else?

      For me, the majority of it is this. Not last second, frantic JIT, but "I want/need support at the time I will actually use what you help me understand, build, use, plan, etc."

    1. And reflection is the key to integrative ePortfolio pedagogy and practice. In her essay, “Reflection and Electronic Portfolios: Inventing the Self and Reinventing the University,” Kathleen Blake Yancey defines reflection as the centerpiece of powerful ePortfolio learning.iiReflective pedagogy transforms ePortfolio from a push-button technology into an engaging process of connection, integrating academic learning, life experience, and profound processes of personal growth

      so interesting how this is emerging from the use of a tool

    2. Catalyst for LearningePortfolio Resources and Researchhttp://www.c2l.mcnrc.org
    1. University of Southern New Hampshire's academic steering technology committee

      Edit: University System of New Hampshire's Academic Technology Steering Committee

    1. they may actually restrict thesubsequent educational outcomes.

      limit students' pursuing/exploring. emerging learning outcomes.

    2. he ‘preciseterms’ are only precise if interpreted by means of the background under-standing and experience. Without this they are largely vacuous.

      need background to understand

    3. 220The trouble withlearningoutcomes
    1. this acquisition will position Elsevier as an increasingly dominant player in preprints, continuing its march to adopt and coopt open access.
  5. Jul 2017
    1. uCertify provides courses, simulator, labs, test prep kits for IT certifications including Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, CompTIA, CIW, Adobe, PMI, ISC2, EC-Council, Linux, Zend, Google, IC3 , Adobe and many more.
    1. And what then of those possibly unmeasurable learning goals? Those transformations, the sources of subsequent life revelations? If our resources of time and energy are spent on measurable goals and student achievements, what happens to the ineffable outcomes? And most significantly, what are we telling the public that higher education achieves? This content, those skills. Period.

      Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...

    2. Ten years ago, Richard Shavelson wrote that accreditation pressures could lead us to focus on easily formulated, standardized, and measured student outcomes and to neglect "personal and social responsibility" skills — "personal, civic, moral, social, and intercultural knowledge and actions." He warned that if we do not measure those, "they will drop from sight." If we neglect the ineffable outcomes in our efforts to understand what college is for, and what we accomplish in higher education, they could disappear from our attention, our aspirations, and eventually from our teaching.

      value of personal development vs. measured outcomes.

    1. I prefer my syllabus to reach out and invoke student agency right from the get-go

      Love the emphasis on student agency.

    2. Attention to detail is a way of caring for our digital students, and validating their experience as online learners. Likewise, thinking through the ways that our course will be different because it’s online, or mostly online, and reflecting that in our planning, our syllabus, and our approach to teaching is the first step in welcoming students to the work we’ll do together.

      Reminder this is a holistic approach to course redesign for hybrid/online offering, including the syllabus.

    3. A class is a process, an independent organism with its own goals and dynamics. It is always something more than even the most imaginative lesson plan can predict.”

      How much influence might we have when working with faculty to consider statements or at least approaches like this?

    4. Similarly, a syllabus should—just might—show our teaching approach, our expectations for the kind of class we hope for, rather than simply telling students what our rules are and how to get an A. This is an opportunity for transparency about why we teach, why we love our subjects, why we believe students will succeed. The syllabus is our first, best opportunity to strike the right chord for an entire term.

      Most of us have probably written off the syllabus as an opportunity or tool to invite students into a course, to intentionally set a tone for a course.

    1. If you have more than 3200 tweets, the free and Open Source Twitter Archive Eraser (TAE) is the tool you’re looking for. Unfortunately, this only works for Windows. I’ve not yet found a similar solution for Mac or Linux. If you know of one, please share this in the comments.
    1. I continue to believe that every time we use the word “textbook” to describe the work we’re doing with OER we paint ourselves a little further into the corner of traditional thinking about teaching and learning resources.