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Recently I’ve been doing both more thinking and more roll-up-your-sleeves working on continuous improvement of OER. And this process of making OER more effective every semester – also known as “continuous improvement” – is where we see some of the most exciting opportunities to collaborate with faculty.
By definition, open educational resources (OER) are licensed in a manner that gives you permission to change, update, and improve them. Learninganalytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning.
“learninganalytics” give you information about what needs improving in your course but doesn’t give you permission to make the changes. ? to do continuous improvement in education, you need OER (permission to change) plus analytics (info about what to change).
Fallon official pointed a response by the company that argued that the EdReports analysis was flawed, and he said Pearson’s overall record in aligning its materials to the common core is “very good,” overall. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core. If it doesn’t, it won’t, and it won’t deserve to.
I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. Would there even be “learninganalytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe.
” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” “ OER , CARE , Stewardship, and the Commons” by “Econproph” Jim Luke. Government Will Travel to Latin America.”
More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives. “Examining ethical and privacy issues surrounding learninganalytics ” by Tony Bates. From this article, I learned that Sal Khan earns more than $540,000 a year. .” “ $80 Million Hack Shows the Dangers of Programmable Money.”
At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. As we move forward with new technologies in learninganalytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”. Course Signals.
Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.” ” “What You Need to Know About LearningAnalytics ,” according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Via New America : “The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education.”
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