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  1. Mar 2017
  2. Feb 2017
    1. 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.”
    1. “Social justice” is a phrase I’m hearing more and more from teachers as they consider adopting OER into their teaching.
    1. 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.

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    1. 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

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    1. 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.
    1. 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?

    1. Consultations with more than 70 community thought leaders brought into relief the contours of a next generation digital learning environment (NGDLE).
  3. Jan 2017
    1. 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!

    1. Oregon community college instructors are using to reduce textbook costs in their courses. I
  4. Dec 2016
    1. 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.”
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  6. Oct 2016
    1. 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
    2. Unbundling of Textbook Publishers
    1. 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."

    2. Open Educational Resources
    1. 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.

    1. 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.
    1. 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.
    1. 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
    1. Hybrid courses are sometimes referred to as blended courses or sometimes mix-mode coursed.

      Definitions...

    1. A teacher’s presence in learning activities and as part of community in online learn-ing environments is motivational (McIntyre 2011).
    2. 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)
    3. 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.

      course

    4. 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
    5. 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.
    6. Identifying Factors Influencing Students’ Motivation and Engagement in Online Courses
  7. Sep 2016
    1. 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.
    1. Heutagogy contends that there is a difference between the acquisition of knowledge and skills (competencies) , and learning.
    1. 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
    1. 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?

    2. Higher education is moving away from its traditional emphasis on the instructor, however, replacing itwith a focus on learning and the learner.
    1. 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.

    2. 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?

    3. 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.

    1. Regarding the major obstacles for higher education, blending formal and informal learning is considered one of the solvable challenges
    1. I want to suggest that what we need instead of a discipline called “education technology” is an undisciplining
    1. the harmful impact of grades on creativity is no less (and possibly even more) potent when a narrative accompanies them
    2. 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.

    3. 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.

    1. 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.
    1. 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.
  8. Aug 2016
    1. I’m positing that academic technology infrastructure is all Context.  That it is important but provides no differentiation to an institution.
  9. Jul 2016
    1. 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
    1. In addition, the discontinuity between classroom theory and practical learning had implications for both the quality of learning and the learners' levels of motivation.
    1. 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.

    1. 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.)?

    1. 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.
    1. we will be targeting nonconsumers of higher education as well as the underserved.
    2. We’ll concentrate on the trifecta of quality, accessibility, and affordability, but this time, the lab will serve more as an incubator or accelerator.
    1. disruption is a positive force. Disruptive innovations are not breakthrough technologies that make good products better; rather they are innovations that make products and services more accessible and affordable, thereby making them available to a much larger population.
  10. Jun 2016
    1. talent achieves what others cannot achieve, whereas genius achieves what others cannot imagine.
    1. Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.
    1. 1FutureReadyLearning

      Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education

    1. The web breaks us out of a product-centered publishing cycle and allows us to become part of an ongoing flow, in which knowledge is perpetually negotiated within networks.

      Evolution of knowledge/content: process over product

    2. Being accessible, comprehensible and reachable is where credibility now lies, because of the expectations embedded in practicing openly on the Resident Web.
    3. These modes on online engagement have been described as Resident in that they involve the individual being present, or residing, to a certain extent online. This is in contrast to Visitor modes of engagement where the individual leaves no online social trace. These new, Resident, forms of agency and online participation are repositioning institutions within a larger, more open, knowledge production landscape. Individuals are increasingly aware, via the opportunities provided by Resident practices on the web, that they do not have to sacrifice as much personal agency to the institution to gain professional credibility as they might have done in a pre-Web era.
    1. The less we understand our tools, the more we are beholden to them

      Yes! The more we understand our tools, the more we can hack them to do what we want them to do.

    2. Both will, however, ensure that students feel more thoroughly policed.

      I'm skeptical, but it will be interesting to see how successful efforts are to use monitoring/flagging when they are intended to make students feel more connected to the content/instructor/peers. Lumen's platform apparently will email students with "canned" messages from the instructor when events are triggered. "Personal" touch?