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I wanted to include a reading summarizing my current thinking on ‘evaluating the impact of OER’ in the course, so I’m letting some thoughts spill out below. In the past I’ve written frequently about how we evaluate the impact of OER use. and more OER impact research should follow that lead. versus 2.6).
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.
She’s just made the jump from provost to a senior academic innovation fellow, tasked with looking to big new ideas in learning and experimental efforts in both teaching and student success. The rub with OER, though, is that some people feel these free materials aren’t as good as published textbooks. This was huge. We went big.
Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. If it doesn’t, it won’t, and it won’t deserve to.
My field was ArtificialIntelligence , but I started experimenting with online tutor groups, producing web pages, etc and migrated into educational technology (as many people did). blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. 2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011.
platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. Would there even be “learninganalytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) “At the most general level,” Srnicek writes.
” 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. ” Via The Intercept : “Chinese Corporation Alibaba Joins Group Ghostwriting American Laws.” Government Will Travel to Latin America.”
. “ How Not to Study Donald Trump ” – “To make sense of Trumpism, and to put Trump in his historical context, The Chronicle of Higher Education asked a mostly white group of scholars to suggest readings for a syllabus for a mock course in Trump Studies. ” Will for-profit higher ed be an election issue? .”
Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Republican Tax Proposal Gets Failing Grade From Higher-Ed Groups.” Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of LearningAnalytics.” The company is co-founded by Nick Ducoff, formerly of the OER textbook startup Boundless. ” tl;dr: He doesn’t like it. .”
Tagged on: March 8, 2017 New Solutions—Not Just New Winners—In the Curriculum Marketplace | New America → Innovative uses of OER offer an entirely new way of answering the question of how we solve for inefficiencies in the curriculum marketplace, rather than just advocating for new winners. Case in point: Chrome extensions gone bad.
” The chain in question: Celerity Educational Group. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Most certainly food for thought touting the power of “ learninganalytics.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “The New Gold Rush?
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?”. Altius Education.
Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. Elsewhere in for-profit higher ed: “ Veterans Groups Seek a Crackdown on Deceptive Colleges,” The New York Times reports.
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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