If the limitations are acknowledged and accounted for, there is no reason why open education should not offer genuine opportunities for promoting equity of access to higher education

Think Java: How To Think Like a Computer Scientist

My first pull request

Free #OER Mobile Course Is Available Online Now

I am no great fan of Yammer and have written in the past about the confusion that exists between it and Office 365 Groups.

Groups for Office 365: How It Works & How to Manage Them [Webinar Recording]

What's the difference between an Office 365 group and a distribution list?

Package ‘hypothesisr

I Annotate 2016 Presentation

Colleges should teach it

Bitcoin

hypothes.is

Connected Course Design at Virginia Commonwealth University

NodeXL Basic is a free, open-source template for Microsoft® Excel®

Making sense of online conversations

Defining making in education in terms of tools, spaces, or disciplines is insufficient. Learning through making is a philosophical approach that can affect classes across the curriculum and schools across the globe. It’s time to change the paradigm.

Adam Croom

OER repositories are great, but in some ways, they are silos.

I recognize we don’t quite yet have the tools, workflows, and infrastructure in place to efficiently leverage all that OER permit us to do

Adam Croom

ery occasionally

Having some time to reflect

I have Serious Rant-y Thoughts on requiring that students inhabit public spaces in professional contexts, and I do wonder how much a class hashtag is useful beyond self-promotion of the course and its amazing instructor.

Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it?

Robin DeRosa

the LMS’s institutionally friendly attributes have an important role in shaping our thinking about teaching and learning.

In considering considerations, I think it’s important to begin with a thinking (or erasing?) exercise that asks you to forget everything you know or think you know about ed tech and start over.  

Designing for Open Pedagogy with CCCOER

The Manifesto

If you want people to find and read your research, build up a digital presence in your discipline, and use it to promote your work when you have something interesting to share. It’s pretty darn obvious, really: If (social media interaction is often) then (Open access + social media = increased downloads).

What’s the difference between a hashtag and a mention?

In short, students would build a personal cyberinfrastructure, one they would continue to modify and extend throughout their college career — and beyond.

Input feed: lkfitz's bookmarks

What does it mean to be human in a digital age?

Using open tools such as hypothes.is can support integration of commentary into peer review workflows. When scholars begin to use this innovative technology, new needs and applications will arise. An open approach will enable more rapid evolution across systems.

All pedagogy is digital pedagogy. Unless it has blinders on.

Limitations of any Learning Management System

Sit and click. Sit and click.

Both Udacity and Knewton require the human, the learner, to become a technology, to become a component within their well-architected software system. Sit and click. Sit and click.

Competency-based learning

Both Udacity and Knewton require the human, the learner, to become a technology, to become a component within their well-architected software system. Sit and click. Sit and click.

5 billion reasons for open access

“Our whole reason for doing this is a social justice reason,” he said. The organization wants to make high-quality material available for free to all students.

Hypothes.is Collector

My Love Letter to Interdisciplinary Studies

FLEXspace is a repository and open online education resource institutions can use to research and share information about successful learning space design.

We are very interested in thinking about the values of the open Web, in which an interest-driven, peer-supported, inquiry-based kind of learning — connected learning — really does situate our students here at VCU for a lifetime of learning that matters.

The Godfather: Gardner Campbell

The case for print

How Blockchain Will Disrupt the Higher Education Transcript

Open access is not fully realized without open peer review, which would provide opportunities for scholarly dialogue and critique throughout the writing process and beyond, argues Alex Mueller.

To borrow a phrase from libraries and archives, how do we get to a point where we curate connections rather than curating content?

Some in attendance voiced concerns about moderating annotations and limiting the “trolling” of authors. Whaley noted that this is an important point, and one that the W3C Web Annotation Working Group is discussing now. They are weighing how much power to give to creators of a piece of content versus the annotators. Whaley said publishers will have the power to police the layers that they create over an ebook, but there may need to be another policing power created to moderate user-created annotation groups.

The Future of Ebook Annotations Is Near & the Possibilities Are Endless

 Imagine an educational system in which we based our understanding of student potential and achievement upon individual interests and passions, developed and nurtured throughout the years of schooling. This is what most teachers intuitively seek to do. Imagine, then, how amazing schools could be without the false conventions of examinations and tests that are philosophically at variance with all that we know about learning and humanity. Imagine the traditionalist bereft of the Examination Excuse. The fact is, we know that we don’t need examinations for students to get into good colleges and we don’t even need good colleges to learn and be successful, so why is this absurdity still the unchallenged tail that wags the dog of our school systems?

A public must allow for new members to join as the old fade away. A public must not die every semester. 

Much of the discussion centered around ancillary materials -- tests, quizzes, worksheets. Commercial publishers now are starting to build ancillary materials to supplement OER textbooks. Get the book for free, but pay, say, $25 for other stuff to round it out.  I had to admit being impressed at the ingenuity of the publishers.

make it harder for those wanting to major in the liberal arts at nonelite institutions to obtain loans.

Study by faculty members at West Point finds students perform better academically when laptops and tablets are banned from the classroom.

A BC HigherEd WordPress Community

Around 40% of Swiss research is open access

FIU takes an interdisciplinary approach to neuroscience research

What I suggest here is a paradigm shift, replacing focus on testing with critical thinking through interdisciplinary learning. To be a successful shift, changes in our education system should be done over time and not through sudden and drastic changes.

The entirely quantitative methods and variables employed by Academic Analytics -- a corporation intruding upon academic freedom, peer evaluation and shared governance -- hardly capture the range and quality of scholarly inquiry, while utterly ignoring the teaching, service and civic engagement that faculty perform,

The more faculty connect tenure to ‘a job for life’ they do serious damage to the value and purpose of tenure.”

Dear teacher: copyright concerns you

Creating Accessible Video for the Online Classroom

Six Types of Unknowns in Interdisciplinary Research

My experimentation with open pedagogy – and my attempts to guide students’ learning with/in and across open platforms – was a social endeavor that invited reciprocal networking.

Notes and comments on ‘Digital Badges in Education’: Part I: Trends and Issues

that good courses don’t end — can’t end — for a multitude of reasons; that the digital world is embedded in the “real” one; and that networks are promising but very, very hard to make truly public.

Why do we suddenly pretend that the twenty-first century never happened when a child enters an examination room?

rather than having an education system which has been industrialised around content and testing, why not have one that’s based around solving problems, working together, collaborating?

A new study builds on that notion, suggesting that one’s “transdisciplinary orientation,” a personal quality predisposing one to engage in cross-disciplinary work, can affect the quality of interdisciplinary research

A new study builds on that notion, suggesting that one’s “transdisciplinary orientation,” a personal quality predisposing one to engage in cross-disciplinary work, can affect the quality of interdisciplinary research -- good or bad.

Dammit, the LMS

“In fact, our undergraduate and graduate students are our only rationale for doing digital humanities,” Risam wrote. “We couldn’t be farther from the cartoonish fantasy of digital humanities that circulates in the clickbait du jour.”

Being a Better Online Reader

Hypothes.is Workshop With Robin DeRosa

OER in Higher Ed: 'Huge Awareness-Raising Effort Needed'

knowledge becomes a community

Doing it wrong, using ineffective process isn’t really any “faster”.  It’s just the appearance of action but without effective or positive change. It’s more theater.

We see the organization as split into supporters and resisters. — Some people are eagerly following the leader’s direction and pushing for action in implementing this solution. But others, those who question the solution and want to look closer at the “problem” are marginalized and discounted as anti-change resisters. We don’t hear them.  We think we know what they’re feeling, but we’re wrong.

It’s likely not that the people in your institution are resisting your grand vision so much as it’s more likely the uncertainty and the incompleteness of your grand vision engenders fear and concern.

Joyner Library's alternative textbook program benefits faculty and students

Toolkit for Digitally-Literate Teachers

He added that “one of the reasons” for the 2008 financial crisis was that “people lost their ethics, their judgement, and their wisdom” because they were “too disciplinary siloed”.

He said that “timeless” disciplines, such as the Classics and the humanities, often best “withstand rapid periods of change" because they give students a “skill set of enquiry based on evidence, the ability to assimilate lots of rapidly changing information in a curious way and a hunger for learning that remains for them for the rest of their life”. “If [universities] can impart those things, [they’re] in pretty good shape,” he said.

Open education’s long revolution: Cable Green on Future Trends Forum #11

Derrida: a documantary

Punxsutawney Campus Faculty Teaching Resources: Open Educational Resources

After hundreds of emails with developers and peer-reviewers, his open-source book will be ready for use at UConn. Neth began planning for the second version of the book in January and the project has taken more than four months.

While formal education and universities put us in the brackets of specializing at a certain field for 5 or more straight years

diverse learning.

“DUDE YOU MADE A SPLOT FOR THIS!”

Creighton's Ed.D: A Truly Interdisciplinary Program

This is the first of what we are calling Smallest Possible Learning Online Tools (SPLOT!)…

Generally the literatures related to transformational learning hinge on active student engagement in the learning process and on students assuming responsibility for their learning. Transformative learning, self-directed learning, experiential learning, and collaborative learning, each of which aims to enhance students’ engagement,are some of the pedagogical approaches that are widely described and evaluated in the literature. In addition to active student engagement, another key feature of transformational learning is transformational teaching. In order for students’ role to change, the role and responsibility of faculty must change as well.

A NEW FEDERALISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION AFFORDABILITY

College Affordability Diagnosis

Internet Colleagues are Colleagues Too

Third Places & Third Spaces – #DigPed PEI

Our Changing University: Interdisciplinary Students Share Ideas

The machines will need training wheels and the guidance of human minds and hands.

Using annotations layered on top of them, we can begin to make better use of the documents that exist today, while helping us more clearly envision tomorrow’s web of linked data.

a web where the implicit connections among documents become explicit.

In 1968 Doug Engelbart showed a hypertext system that could link to regions within documents. I

as the next incarnation of web comments.

But this idea of a humans and machines working together

I am #IndieEdTech

But I think there is power in the notion of a book, its thingness, and the Web can perhaps learn how to encapsulate, in the way a book does, a discrete thing, a bounded set of ideas.

Books can learn from the web how to be bounded, but open.The web can learn from books how to be open, but bounded.

The five keys to a successful Google team

Active OER: Beyond open licensing policies

“free vs. open”

Free, high-quality education resources from the National Science Digital Library

What Are the Close-to-Best Examples of Blog and Wiki-Based Classes in Each Discipline?

Gephi https://gephi.org/ that created a visual network/graph,

The Garden is what I was doing in the wiki as I added the Gun Control articles, building out a network of often conflicting information into a web that can generate insights, iterating it, allowing that to grow into something bigger than a single event, a single narrative, or single meaning.

Github has taught a generation of programmers that copies are good, not bad, and as we noted, it’s copies that are essential to the Garden.

Clint Lalonde’s Sustainability Plan

Why American higher education faculty tend to resist digital materials: new study

Open Education Resources and Repositories

Paulo Freire believed that pedagogy was always a form of intervention in the world because it was impossible to separate the teaching of content, theories, values and stories about one’s relationship to oneself, each other and the world from how one is formed ethically and politically.

democracy begins to fail and political life becomes impoverished in the absence of those vital public spheres, such as public and higher education, in which civic values, public scholarship and social engagement allow for a more imaginative grasp of a future that takes seriously the demands of justice, equity and civic courage.

educators and others should attempt to create the conditions that give students the opportunity to become autonomous actors who have the knowledge and courage to struggle in order to make desolation and cynicism unconvincing and hope practical.