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OPINION: Three misunderstandings about open resources
How inclusive is the “Openness” of Open Education?
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”.
detangle my digital personal and professional lives
A powerful media and information literacy project from UNESCO
presidents need more skills than ever as the world changes around higher education
Open Pedagogy Library
make the web the learning platform
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.”
Censorship doesn’t refute anything Murray says, it only makes him a free speech martyr,"
Shouting down speakers is morally wrong, unprincipled, anti-intellectual, and utterly indefensible.
Check for previous fact-checking work Go upstream to the source Read laterally
What Does It Mean to Open Education? Perspectives on Using Open Educational Resources at a US Public University1
When she asked the students what surprised them the most about paying for college, one student volunteered that it was the cost of books that they never wind up having to read.
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.
“The real impact, just numbers-wise and challenge-wise, is in the publics.”
Open Educational Resources and Institutional Repositories
Effectively encouraging the use of OER on your campus
Kubi is the simpler more engaging way to make video calls
‘Worth the Investment’
Faculty Development and Student Learning
What’s Your (Digital) Activism?
The URL meet.google.com, however, is somewhat up-and-running.
Still, she misses some of the resources traditional publishers offer. Before she switched to LibreText, her old textbook came with adaptive quizzes—which can help students identify what they need to spend more time studying—and she says they worked well. But at the same time, some of her students weren’t able to access those resources, because they weren’t able to purchase the textbook in the first place. “It’s sort of a catch-22,” she says. “It was improving student success—but only in those who could afford to buy it.”
“Social justice” is a phrase I’m hearing more and more from teachers as they consider adopting OER into their teaching.
Online Ed's Return on Investment
Open Access policy adopted by IU Bloomington faculty
Campus Design Toolkit
Toolkit Elements
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIESTHE RETURNS TO ONLINE POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
Creating Blended Learning Models That Work
How to make college affordable again: _Paying the Price_
The Returns to Online Postsecondary Education
The net worth of the Cabinet Trump had selected as of Monday was at least $13.1 billion, based on available estimates, or more than the annual gross domestic product of about 70 small countries.
The quantum event about to flip Chiang from niche superstar to widespread recognition is the movie Arrival, an adaptation of his 1998 short story Story Of Your Life
where does the physical body end and where does technology begin?
where does the physical body end and where does technology begin
Quick Thoughts on Open Pedagogy
Welcome to OLOT - the Online Learning Orientation Tool
Online Experience
What's a week look like?
Beginning an Online Course
Why Open Education Matters
Why Open Education Matters
The Dangerous NAS Proposals for the Higher Education Act
OER textbook called Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
Thoughts on this resource? Civic Online Reasoning
The excitement here is in building complexity, not reducing it
Outstanding student loan balances increased by $31 billion, and stood at $1.31 trillion as of December 31, 2016. 11.2% of aggregate student loan debt was 90+ days delinquent or in default in 2016Q42.
five good iPad apps
focusing on the product is a trap. It’s the connections that count
I certainly agree! I'm thinking about "connections" as being part of a larger "process," as in open education is an evolving process (including product, access, practice, communication, connections, pedagogy, etc.). Thoughts?
Consultations with more than 70 community thought leaders brought into relief the contours of a next generation digital learning environment (NGDLE).
Helpful resources for using OER
NMC Horizon Report > 2017 Higher Education Edition
Open CTE Resources: Educator's Guide
Building a Culture of Innovation in Higher Education: Design & Practice for Leaders
Fact-Checking
Teaching Build
Digital Identity
A Domain of One’s Own
WEB LITERACY FOR STUDENT FACT-CHECKERS
OER Research Toolkit
An Open Education Reader
Open Educational Resources
Print This Title Report Warns of 'New Civics,' Seeks Requirement
That’s a powerful interactive experience!
Love it!
Twessays and Composition in the Digital Age
What is POGIL? POGIL is an acronym for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning.
OER Stories
Does Open Pedagogy require OER?
Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump
Is the Learning Industry Dead?
Open Pedagogy Conference
Archived webinar: Open Practices
HarvardX and MITx: Four Years of Open Online Courses -- Fall 2012-Summer 2016
Eighty-five percent of provosts report that their institutions use student evaluations when judging faculty members for tenure, promotion or raises.
And here’s the magic: we offered this book up to the knowledge commons, and though it is rough and flawed in spots, it is a real contribution on many levels, to many fields, with application for many courses and future students. Public university students generating great work, sending it off to the public to use it as they wish.
Love how this "magically" emerges from an open pedagogy framework!
Oregon community college instructors are using to reduce textbook costs in their courses. I
Resources to support the SAMR Model
Noncommercial Isn’t the Problem, ShareAlike Is
Virginia’s Faculty Collaboratives Project
Lots of data for who is attending HE.
Georgia Tech’s Model Expands
Evaluating Online Courses
Personalized Learning: What It Really Is and Why It Really Matters
Breaking out of ed tech hype.
Instructional Designers in Higher Education
Domain of One’s Own: A Corpus Study
Digital Literacy
How Video Production Affects Student Engagement:An Empirical Study of MOOC Videos
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Fantastic Tool for Untangling Timelines
cyber security training communit
Cybrary is the world’s first and only no-cost cyber security massive open online course (MOOC) provider
micro-credentials are the career building mechanism of the future
Defining OEP Overall, open education practitioners and researchers describe OEP as moving beyond a content-centred approach to openness, shifting the focus from resources to practices, with learners and teachers sharing the processes of knowledge creation. In their summary of the UKOER project, for example, Beetham, et al. (2012) explicitly define the project’s interpretation of OEP as practices which included the creation, use and reuse of OER as well as open learning, open/public pedagogies, open access publishing, and the use of open technologies. Ehlers (2011) defines OEP as “practices which support the (re)use and production of OER through institutional policies, promote innovative pedagogical models, and respect and empower learners as co-producers on their lifelong learning paths.”
Data should extend our senses, not be a substitute for them. Likewise, analytics should augment rather than replace our native sense-making capabilities.
Why should I adopt an open textbook?
Information Literacy
Maybe Rethink the Cult of Virality?
Banning Ads Is Nice, but the Problem Is Facebook’s Underlying Model
Digital Literacies
Remaking the Public U’s Professoriate
Ken Sagendorf
Textbook Example of Unbundling
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They think blockchains could make things as varied as financial trades, digital health records, and manufacturing supply chains more efficient and powerful.
PSU Library’s OERs are Free Textbooks – for Everyone
Examples of bad peer review and why it is damaging to researchers
Federally Funded Research Results Are Becoming More Open and Accessible
How people actually use Blackboard, according to Blackbo
High-end digital products that directly or indirectly improve student outcomes Related services that help colleges improve student outcomes Services that help colleges improve the unsexy but critical aspects staying viable, from marketing to administration Loans to schools looking to make changes that will (theoretically) make them more sustainable in the long run but require significant up-front investment—preferably in the products and services of the company offering the loan
Unbundling of Textbook Publishers
Second, how do we avoid maxing out teachers? Yes, teachers want better content. They would also like to hold on to their nights and weekends. If open educational resources rely on teachers to spend lots of time sifting through materials or creating it themselves, that could send teachers back to textbooks posthaste.
I really wonder about this frequently cited concern. I think the future or OER is much bigger than finding money to pay people to update "textbooks."
Open Educational Resources
The general rule at a TLT is that if you’ve had an eight year run without getting disbanded or dissolved due to faculty pressure you’ve had a good run, and it might be time to brush up that CV because it can’t possibly last. It’s worth noting as well that TLTs are usually disbanded as a way for institutional leadership to gain favor with faculty.
Interesting "general" rule when it comes to disbanding/dissolving TLTs. In my experience faculty are more upset with the administration when their TLT support on campus is disrupted. Especially when it affects the efficiency/timeliness of their support. Maybe dependent on the number of faculty / size of TLT? Regardless the source of the "attack" TLTs are certainly susceptible as you've said.
Pedagogy is leading people to a place where they can learn for themselves. It is about creating environments and situations where people can draw out from within themselves, and hone the abilities they already have, to create their own knowledge, interpret the world in their own unique ways, and ultimately realise their full potential as human beings.
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Reacting to the past games
H5P makes it easy to create interactive content by providing a range of content types for various needs. Preview and explore these content types below.
Opening up Education: Innovative Teaching and Learning for All through New Technologies and Open Educational Resources
OER Success Framework
SUNY OER Services
An increasing number of schools are unable to balance their books. Make sure yours is not one of them.
higher education is at a tipping point
Big Data
Computer technology is already eating jobs and has been since 1990.
Academic twitter
Open Educational Resources (OER) and the Evolving Higher Education Landscape
Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education have the potential to triple in use as primary courseware over the next five years, from 4 percent to 12 percent, according to a survey of more than 500 faculty by Cengage Learning. I
Ed-Tech as a Discipline
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memor (mindful) re+memorari (be mindful of)
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constituent part of a complex structure
The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.
Machine learning:
Is the internet killing our brains?
State of learning management systems ‘verging on embarrassing’
Eight Ways to Support Faculty Needs with a Virtual Teaching & Learning Center
New Directions in Open Education
Hybrid courses are sometimes referred to as blended courses or sometimes mix-mode coursed.
Definitions...
A definition of student engagement
A teacher’s presence in learning activities and as part of community in online learn-ing environments is motivational (McIntyre 2011).
This is supported by Schwier’s (2007) views that ‘communities cannot be created; rather they emerge when conditions nurture them’ (p.18). These social interactions among students maximize students’ motivation and peer collabo-ration in learning (University of Texas 2013)
The design and the way courses are structured can be vital factors that are associated with students’ motiva-tion and positive/negative experiences of learning online.
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the elements—tools and community—seemed to mediate stu-dents’ active participation and motivation in the process of achieving their (subject) learning objectives (object). Tool mediation, which is a key principle of Activity Theory, highlights that human activity is mediated by various tools
Either way, student motivation and engagement are closely related elements of student learning that can have an impact on learning outcomes. Beer etal. (2010)state that in spite of the fact that there is no universally accept-ed definition of what comprises engagement, student and college success, student retention and student motivation are always linked to engagement.
Identifying Factors Influencing Students’ Motivation and Engagement in Online Courses
Minds Online
THE NEW FACE OF THE TEXTBOOK MONOPOLY
Giving Up Refined Sugar
young people teach themselves through play and exploration and then, when ready to do so, begin naturally to put what they have learned to purposes that benefit the group as a whole.
Heutagogy contends that there is a difference between the acquisition of knowledge and skills (competencies) , and learning.
professor has is, How do you actually get the ideas into the brains of these kids? We’ve moved from a world where the goal was really understanding, really deep
An institution could retain theLMS as a core component, preserving its value as an administrative tool and a linchpin for learning data. But learning pioneers would be able to experiment and innovate by hooking apps and other functions onto the LMS. Contact with the LMS would be more indirect than direct for most users.
Like DoOO buffet of tools and applications?
Higher education is moving away from its traditional emphasis on the instructor, however, replacing itwith a focus on learning and the learner.
Open educational resources (OER)-based flipped classroom practice in an undergraduate course
When educators are actively experimenting in the classroom, students in turn are more likely to confidently take creative risks themselves. It is also important that educators provide opportunities for students to take ownership of their learning and depart from teacher-defined outcomes without being penalized
Why isn't this in the Horizon HE report? It's more applicable to HE students who have greater opportunities and resources for experiential/self-directed learning.
While access to internet-enabled technologies makes it easy for people to create media and products and share them with the world, there can be heavy legal repercussions such as lawsuits associated with fair u
Not that this isn't important, but it sort of derails the flow they had going, no?
Ashift is taking place in schools all over the world as learners are exploring subject matter through the act of creation rather than the consumption of conten
So interesting to see this "realization" included in the K-12 report but not in the HE report. Fostering curiousity, interest, creativity, and ownership. Short jump to an open pedagogy model but pretty unclear that's where this is coming from.
Regarding the major obstacles for higher education, blending formal and informal learning is considered one of the solvable challenges
I want to suggest that what we need instead of a discipline called “education technology” is an undisciplining
When we reduce students to numbers and grades, they and we focus on test-taking skills and grade requirements rather than on learning
the harmful impact of grades on creativity is no less (and possibly even more) potent when a narrative accompanies them
When school is seen as a test, rather than an adventure in ideas,” teachers may persuade themselves they’re being fair “if they specify, in listlike fashion, exactly what must be learned to gain a satisfactory grade…[but] such schooling is unfair in the wider sense that it prepares students to pass other people’s tests without strengthening their capacity to set their own assignments in collaboration with their fellows”
Teaching the creativity out of students.
There is certainly value in assessing the quality of learning and teaching, but that doesn’t mean it’s always necessary, or even possible, to measurethose things — that is, to turn them into numbers. Indeed, “measurable outcomes may be the least significant results of learning”
Just because you need to measure learning get doesn't mean you can.
but the students buy the books. It’s not money that comes to us. That’s why it’s that way. That’s the power of institutionality: it’s so invisible you can’t even see it.
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Smarter State Spending
How can educators find and use OER in their classrooms?
The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review
OEP
Building on Experience With Digital Education for Refugees
Technology affords us opportunities to connect, communicate, and co-create with our students like never before. However, it also has the downside of offering unparalleled potential for barriers to learning, as the potential for distractions is ever-present.
Blended Course Design
From Andragogy to Heutagogy
Heutagogy
I’m positing that academic technology infrastructure is all Context. That it is important but provides no differentiation to an institution.
Making and Breaking Domain of One’s Own: Rethinking the Web in Higher Ed
Hashtags For Education
Twitter is part of the scaffolding of digital functionality.
corporate-breathing purpose manifest through social and tech
students who used the free online textbook scored higher on departmental final examinations, had higher grade point averages in the class and had higher retention rates
Federated Choral Explanations for Documentation
“knowledge creation”.
The "business" of univeristy?
In addition, the discontinuity between classroom theory and practical learning had implications for both the quality of learning and the learners' levels of motivation.
Digital Citizenship, Learning, and Student Voice
Where Open Textbooks Are Used
A couple of interesting large-scale approaches to making the transition are the Open Access Network and the recently-released Open Access 2020 Roadmap, both of which sketch out ways academic libraries can use their resources and values to make scholarship accessible for the public good.
None of us, students and faculty included, have really figured out how to live, learn, and work in the emerging digital media-cognitive ecology. So it is certainly true that we can struggle to accomplish various purposes with technologies pulling us in different directions
What could educators do to better prepare students to interact with digital media that leverages tech to go far beyond what paper and pen affords (tools, skills, etc.)?
The arbitrary delineations between education and the workforce will fade away. As demographics and technology alter the ways in which we get work done, institutions of higher education will have no choice but to become more responsive.
A Deloitte report projects that by 2020, 50 percent of the content in an undergraduate degree will be obsolete in five years
we will be targeting nonconsumers of higher education as well as the underserved.
We’ll concentrate on the trifecta of quality, accessibility, and affordability, but this time, the lab will serve more as an incubator or accelerator.