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  1. Jul 2017
    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.
    1. 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...

    1. 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

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    1. When education is framed like this, with the learner on top and the system underneath providing support,

      learner-driven perhaps?

    2. 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!

    1. 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

    1. 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.
    1. "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."
    1. “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”.
    1. That’s really what licensing is all about. Creativity.

      Creativity. That's really what "open" is all about too! Love!

    1. 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.
  2. Jun 2017
    1. 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
    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    1. 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.

    1. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning

    2. 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
    3. 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.
    1. 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
    1. 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.
    1. This double burden on Illinois families – high tuition students pay and high taxes that subsidize universities – cannot continue. The solution: Prioritize students
    1. Open practice is not a one-time decisio

      process

    2. earning. Theories of social learning such as social constructivism and sociocultural theory emphasise the importance of learners being actively involved inthe learning proce
    3. 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
    4. 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
    5. 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

    6. 1Openness and praxis: Exploring the use of open educational practices in higher education
    1. 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?"

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

    1. A series of thoughtbursts on topics concerning (e)book history, (e)print culture, & digital humanities.
  3. May 2017
    1. 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.
    1. "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."
    2. "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."
    1. 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.

    1. 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.
  4. Apr 2017
    1. 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

    2. Academic Capitalism in the NewEconomy: Challenges andChoices
    1. 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

    1. 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.
    1. 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...

    2. For more than 10 years now, teachers in Quebec are trying to integrate an open pedagogy into their daily practices.
    1. 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

    1. 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

    1. 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

    2. 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

    1. Linking content to community this way moves education from a static artifact to a dynamic process

      process (community) over product (content)

    2. 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

    1. 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.
    1. 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?

    1. 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!

    1. 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.

    1. 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.

    2. difines education dually, as the process of giving and receiving systematic instruction (education) and as an enlightening experience (‘an’ education). Enlightening-giving greater understanding.

    1. 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.

    1. 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.
    1. 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

  5. Mar 2017
    1. 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

    2. daily process of trying to explain and connect incoming ideas rather than rating them and arguing them changes your brain in helpful ways.
    1. Adaptive Learning is data-driven and continually takes data from students and adapts their learning pathway to “change and improve over time for each student”.
    1. Rather than lend legitimacy to this event, we respectfully request you stand up for a campus that is intellectually open and culturally diverse, but one that does not fall prey to the designs of external organizations who peddle partisan propaganda in the guise of “public scholarship.”
  6. www.openbookpublishers.com www.openbookpublishers.com
    1. What Does It Mean to Open Education? Perspectives on Using Open Educational Resources at a US Public University1
    1. Incoming first-year students at Michigan State University who felt a connection with the university during orientation were more likely to fit in and want to stay enrolled at the university, particularly students from ethnic minority groups.
    1. Kubi is the simpler more engaging way to make video calls