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AI, Instructional Design, and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

And, because you’ve got to play the hits, let’s look at what their impact will be on OER as well. Instructional design is the process of leveraging what we understand about how people learn to create experiences that maximize the likelihood that the people who participate in those experiences will learn.

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Some Lessons Learned Supporting OER Adoption

Iterating Toward Openness

The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. If OER adoption were to become widespread among the majority of faculty, it became clear that someone would need to do something more than create OER, post it on a website, and give conference talks about it. Background and Some Problems.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. It offers a more experiential learning experience. This past two weeks also saw seven (7!)

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Making AI a More Effective Teacher: Lessons from TPACK

Iterating Toward Openness

Why, then, do we constantly act surprised when we select a random generative AI model, try to use it to support student learning, and find that it isnt particularly effective? Because effective teaching requires a great deal of knowledge and skill, and the person you pulled off the street most likely had no relevant training.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. It offers a more experiential learning experience. This past two weeks also saw seven (7!)

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How do we talk about “open” in the context of courseware?

Iterating Toward Openness

In another article , he includes examples of “courseware” ranging from Cengage MindTap and Pearson CourseConnect to Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative and Lumen’s Waymaker. When we ask whether or not content is open, we mean is it openly licensed (is it OER)? Likewise, putting OER (e.g.,

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Live Tuesday August 16th with Gary Lopez on HippoCampus.org and Teaching with the Power of Open, Digital Resources

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].