they may actually restrict thesubsequent educational outcomes.
limit students' pursuing/exploring. emerging learning outcomes.
they may actually restrict thesubsequent educational outcomes.
limit students' pursuing/exploring. emerging learning outcomes.
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
220The trouble withlearningoutcomes
COMMON GOOD FORECASTER™
DesigningEffectiveMultimediaforPhysicsEducation
this acquisition will position Elsevier as an increasingly dominant player in preprints, continuing its march to adopt and coopt open access.
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.
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...
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.
Nobody's Watching: Proctoring in Online Learning
Nobody's Watching: Proctoring in Online Learning
Transmission or dialogue
student debt increase… can explain between 11 and 35 percent of the observed approximate eight percentage-point decline in homeownership
I prefer my syllabus to reach out and invoke student agency right from the get-go
Love the emphasis on student agency.
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.
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?
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.
negative perceptions of highered
1.1 What is Open Education?
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.
Diversity and Inclusion vs. Equity and Social Justice
Average U.S. household has 828% more student debt than in 1999
NEO Learning Management System: The World’s First Comprehensive LMS
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.
‘Precision Education’ Hopes to Apply Big Data to Lift Diverse Student Groups
‘Precision Education’ Hopes to Apply Big Data to Lift Diverse Student Groups
In Defense of the LMS
Over the period in which the US has reduced public funding per student, the pattern has entrenched itself. It’s too early in Great Britain’s experiment with tuition-based university funding to see the divergence - but under the current model it will happen. The real difference between the US and British systems is that Great Britain can still easily fix its higher education mistake.
So, no way out for the US at this point...
Need more needles! ;)
Online vs. F2F costs
We’ve Made It Ridiculously Easy to Contribute to the Digital Polarization Initiative
BCcampus is pleased to announce the 2017 Open Education Grant recipients
The goal of this convening is togather and prepare faculty to launch discipline-specificlearning communities focused on sharing best practices for using adaptive courseware and active learning pedagogies to support studen
testing
When education is framed like this, with the learner on top and the system underneath providing support,
learner-driven perhaps?
Of course, I realized that I am talking about upending an entire system built on “final grades” by instead focusing on “showcasing a learning process.” Can’t say this change will ever occur,
Be the change you wish to see! ;) This sounds great!
Bringing User Experience to Education: UDL and Inclusion for the 21st Century" and my keynote address, which I refer to at the conclusion of the post, is about "Universal Learning Experiences: How UDL and UX Structure Inclusion & Transfer in Education for All."
@kgoin Conference
There was an automatically generated screenshot of each site, linking to that domain. You could filter the sites based on pre-determined categories. You could also click into two different views of each site that broke down even more data, such as how many words, URLS, and images were used in each blog post, and how many themes and categories were used on the site.
"You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content.You shall not copy, reproduce, make available online or electronically transmit, publish, adapt, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any Content for any other purposes without the prior written consent of YouTube or the respective licensors of the Content. YouTube and its licensors reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to the Service and the Content."
“bizarre” “triple-pay” system, in which “the state funds most research, pays the salaries of most of those checking the quality of research, and then buys most of the published product”.
That’s really what licensing is all about. Creativity.
Creativity. That's really what "open" is all about too! Love!
Digital redlining is the modern equivalent of this historical form of societal division; it is the creation and maintenance of technological policies, practices, pedagogy, and investment decisions that enforce class boundaries and discriminate against specific groups.
Study: Many Online Students Now Decide Between Multiple Programs
Pragmatism vs. Idealism and the Identity Crisis of OER Advocacy
Designing with OER (DOER) Fellows
When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy
PowerSchool Unveils New Innovations in its Unified Classroom Designed to Transform K-12 Education
education as a democratic public sphere is also crucial as a theoretical tool and political resource for fighting against neoliberal modes of governance that have reduced faculty all over the United States to adjuncts and part-time workers with few or no benefits. These workers bear the brunt of a labor process that is as exploitative as it is disempowering.
Critical pedagogy is organized around the struggle over agency, values and social relations within diverse contexts, resources and histories. Its aim is producing students who can think critically, be considerate of others, take risks, think dangerously and imagine a future that extends and deepens what it means to be an engaged citizen capable of living in a substantive democracy.
This is a particularly important issue at a time when higher education is being defunded and students are being punished with huge tuition hikes and financial debts, while being subjected to a pedagogy of repression that has taken hold under the banner of reactionary and oppressive educational reforms pushed by right-wing billionaires and hedge fund managers.
Whoa.
Public Research Universities: Understanding the Financial Model
Decreased state funding
Adaptability/editability of content was ranked relatively low on the list of criteria for selecting course content.
Probably because it's hardly feasible in most cases.
2014 Babson survey findings, in which only 2.7 percent of faculty members identified cost as one the top three factors, compared to 70 percent in this survey.
This group is likely much more informed about textbook costs and OER than those in the Babson study.
What can you do with a PDF? You can read it! It’s pretty just like the print versions. You can send it to someone else.
One of the biggest barriers to OER adoption/adaption. . Serious work yet to do in this area.
Vivien’s research profile
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
A likely possible explanation for these differences is the greater financial pressure placed on U.S. post-secondary students, who face significantly higher tuition costs (US$11,487 vs. C$5,998 during the 2014-15 academic year
Students assigned open textbooks perceive these resources to be of generally high quality and value the cost savings, immediate access, portability, and other benefits they confer.
The history of Open Education – a timeline and bibliography
providing a student-centered, co-curricular environment
Students and their success serve as the driving force behind our decisions. As our first priority, East Central students deserve the greatest educational opportunities and the highest quality of service
Here, we describe the development and implementation of an instructional design that focused on bringing multiple forms of active-learning and student-centered pedagogies into a traditionally lecture-based introductory biology course.
Critical Thinking
This double burden on Illinois families – high tuition students pay and high taxes that subsidize universities – cannot continue. The solution: Prioritize students
Moreover, taking a course online reduces the number of credits that students who do reenroll take in future semesters.
The average DeVry student takes two-thirds of her courses online.
the study found that taking an online course reduces the number of credit hours taken in future semesters.
Open Pedagogy and Social Justice
Open practice is not a one-time decisio
process
earning. Theories of social learning such as social constructivism and sociocultural theory emphasise the importance of learners being actively involved inthe learning proce
esearch methods, specifically constructivist grounded theory(Charmaz,2014) to explore these questions. Grounded theory method, originally developed by Glaser and Strauss (1967), aims to build useful theory from empirical observations; ‘ground’ refers to the grounding of findings in rigorous qualitative inquiry and analysis. Underpinned by interpretivistepistemology
use the following definition of OEP in this study: collaborative practices which include the creation, use and reuse of OER, as well as pedagogical practices employing participatory technologies and social networks for interaction, peer-learning, knowledge creation, and empowerment of l
audiences.” This change in the conception of openness is often described as the difference between open as gratis(free of cost) and open as libre(enabling legal reuse) (Win
gratis vs. free
1Openness and praxis: Exploring the use of open educational practices in higher education
We need a short letter that the committee can read that will substantiate our choice, they said
I get it, but have to ask, why don't "committees" ask for the same substantiation when a faculty member chooses a "random" publisher textbook? ALL publisher textbooks are "high quality?"
I’ve been to 55 schools in 11 months, and I meet a lot of people. I’ve started to think of these conversations with strangers as my professional development—I can learn something from everyone everywhere.
An amazing, rare and valuable perspective.
expertise is important but the moment you think you’re an “expert,” you are missing an opportunity to learn from faculty
there is a difference between bringing your expertise to the table and thinking you're an expert at the table.
The Pledge – I will not be part of male-only panels
OER Policy Development Tool
Publications
Textbooks by Subject
Designing Open Pedagogy Assessments
Accissible Syllabus
The accommodations model depends on invasions of privacy to work.
A series of thoughtbursts on topics concerning (e)book history, (e)print culture, & digital humanities.
Tech Forward
Universal design is a process, a means rather than an end. There’s no such thing as a universally designed text.
Parallels to OER and Open Ed
OER Mythbusting
Critical instructional design moves toward realizing the possibility for learning that blends a new form of rigor with agency through a practice of inquiry, empathy, and emergence.
Interdisciplinary Approach
So Domain of One’s Own is a wonderful program
“I haven’t polled my members hardly, because nobody really knows what it has meant.”
Farewell to Departments
"For years, Plymouth State University has partnered with local businesses to involve students in real-life environments," said Robyn Parker, dean and faculty member in the current College of Business Administration and cluster development leader. "For example, each year a group of students works with the Common Man restaurant to develop new ice cream flavors. Students from various disciplines work in teams to research, design marketing materials, create business plans, manage budgets, develop and test their products, and introduce their ice cream flavors."
"Integrated clusters allow us to provide the type of education, beginning at the freshman level, that integrates the learning process in such a way as to create opportunities to interact with our communities," said Donald L. Birx, PSU president. "Using open laboratories, we can work across disciplines and with community members to solve problems and challenges that give students insights into how education is relevant to the needs of the world."
“I think there’s a lot of orientation toward workforce development,”
The median engagement time is at most 6 minutes
Active learning
Getting students involved
Effective educational videos
Hybrid Teaching and Learning
Closing comments because you don’t want to engage in conversations?
I wonder if she would close comments on her site if all were constructive? From my read, it wasn't that she didn't want to engage in conversation.
Reading _Lower Ed_: the plan
OER-enabled pedagogy is the set of teaching and learning practices only possible or practical when you have permission to engage in the 5R activities.
What Makes an Open Lab 'Open'?
Again, what is problematic is the shifting balance of emphasis that takes publichigher education away from expanding educational and economic opportuni-ties for underserved populations.
Increased access for whom?
dual education leads to dual economies, dual societies
Academic Capitalism in the NewEconomy: Challenges andChoices
Those with incomes up to $30,000 have no discretionary income to put towards college costs, yet they are expected to pay on average $6,057 per year to attend a two-year college and $9,310 to attend a public four-year college. For stu-dents with family incomes between $30,001 and $48,000, two-year college costs require about a third (32%) of discretionary income, and four-year college costs require more than half (53%) of their discretionary income.
stunning
How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Education
Recent & Upcoming Conversations on Open & Networked Learning
“Interdisciplinary studies is like concierge service for employers,”
low visual-preference students experienced greater cognitive load in the video condition, while high visual-preference students experienced greater cognitive load in the no video condition.
How MOOC Video Production Affects Student Engagement
Open pedagogy is not a collection of pedagogical procedures applied in class that then result in the same outcomes of any other pedagogy.
not a collection of practices...
For more than 10 years now, teachers in Quebec are trying to integrate an open pedagogy into their daily practices.
The introductory video and the supporting script provided opportunities for establishing teaching presence in the following three ways.
IMVs involving the demonstration, illustration, and presentation of key terms, knowledge, skills, and resources can help students understand important procedures, structures, or mechanisms in previously problematic content.
what to cover in a video. reason for video
Video producerscalled this desirable trait “personalization”—the student feel-ing that the video is being directed right at them, rather than atan unnamed crowd.
personalization
What if, for the future of open education, we decided that focusing on students and their well-being, in all its forms, was our work?
love it!
We were surprised to see that the new group, the people who viewed the video lecture, did show an increase in mind wandering over time, but the group who viewed it live in class did not.
live vs. recorded
60% of online students abandon video lectures in under 10 minutes (1), and countless studies showing that student attentiveness fades quickly into mind wandering (2,3)
length of videos
Linking content to community this way moves education from a static artifact to a dynamic process
process (community) over product (content)
a commitment to building a system in which the public pays itself for what it needs: the public funding of systems and structures that help students make it to and through college.
amen
This week Follett joined Lumen as a 'distributor' of 'free' OER learning materials
free but not free.
If more students can buy course materials
...Follett (and Lumen) get more money.
"Buying course materials..." Are we still talking about OER?
Instructional Design in Higher Education
Today Lumen announced a major new partnership with Follett. Follett operates more than 1,200 local campus bookstores, and they’ve made significant investments in tools, processes, and people to make it easy for faculty to review and adopt course materials.
Rogue approaches to scholarly communication
Value of curation
As we strive for institutional standards of academic excellence, we detach the rigor of scientific inquiry from accessibility to a larger audience outside of our disciplines.
An increasingly common catch-22?
Two new free college plans and the future of higher education
Open educational practice covers any significant change in educational practice afforded by the open nature of the internet
Yes, the internet piece seems a bit tricky, but this is helpful to me!
Roaming Autodidacts
University System of Maryland gives 21 grants to promote open-source textbook use
I think the locking down of open is dangerous. I think it draws lines where they need not be, and it reconsolidates power for those who define it. More than that, the power around open has been pretty focused on a few people for too long, and I count myself amongst them.
amen.
Informal and open education has been largely overlooked, probably due to social and cultural stigmas attached to learning from places besides traditional campuses. Our education system ends where autodidactism (self-learning) commences: we are content with spoon-feeding our students from textbooks, with no focus on extensive learning. Students learn from topics, as opposed to problems (problem-based learning). It cannot be emphasised enough that research stems from problem-solving buttressed by necessary instruction.
difines education dually, as the process of giving and receiving systematic instruction (education) and as an enlightening experience (‘an’ education). Enlightening-giving greater understanding.
How To Join or Renew Your Membership
designed to help students fact-check and trace the circulation of online information—helps to answer both of these questions.
How Is Open Pedagogy Different?
Sexual Misconduct Campus Climate Survey
Beyond Websites
Not the tool or the product (both are valuable), but the greater experience for students to understand how the web works, what caused it to break, and how to work collaboratively to fix it. All big learning opps.
Turning open education into a social movement
The open educational resources movement is redefining the concept of online textbooks
an invaluable resource for getting started in understanding what “open” is, as well as how it has been applied and practiced across multiple types of institutions, disciplines, and educational settings.
Introduction to Open Education
Portland Business Journal Provides access to Portland Business Journal and Book of Lists. Also includes other city business journals. PSU faculty/staff/students please click here for login information. Walk-in users please contact the Reference Desk. Wall Street Journal Offers full text articles in The Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition, 1984-present) and the online edition (2010-present ), excluding stock quotes and classified ads. Updated daily.
PSU access to WSJ and PBJ
hypothesis.trubox.ca
Tutorial for H
The Maryland Flipped Classroom Study
What makes a great webinar? Part 1
On the persistence of unicorns
The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science
Accessibility Toolkit is
In response to a social action movement led by students concerned about both the cost and relevance of learning resources
Why Openness in Education
Robin DeRosa - Beyond OER: The Promises, Pitfalls, and Potential of Open Education
For #OpenEducationWk Take a CC Certification Unit for a Test Drive
Students’ No. 1 Higher Education Obstacle May Surprise You
THE OPEN EDUCATION INITIATIVE
A New Model for OER: Anthologies Instead of Textbooks?
Adapt, Adopt, Build: Hospitality & #OER
I think some of the most promising work in the future is having students explore that explanation space, and coming face-to-face with their own ignorance, as we all must do.
garden vs. stream
daily process of trying to explain and connect incoming ideas rather than rating them and arguing them changes your brain in helpful ways.
OEP and open pedagogy: #OEGlobal reflections
Open Textbook Summit 2017, May 24-25, 2017
Authoring Open Textbooks
Best Western
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