Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 27, 2025
Or, in which Generative AI meets OER meets Reusable Learning Objects. However, it is wildly different to try to imagine creating learning activities without making any specific references to content. For example, how would you write a practice quiz without referring to any content? How would that even work?
Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 21, 2023
At some point over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) advocacy in US higher education became zero textbook costs (ZTC) advocacy. But OER / ZTC advocates have had a fundamental problem simmering for many years now, and the recent advent of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 will quickly bring that simmer to a boil.
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Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
There’s great news out of the recent UNESCO meeting in Paris, where member states unanimously adopted the draft Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER). This dramatically simplifies understanding what is and isn’t OER. Resources in the public domain or released under an open license are OER.
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
I read an article back in June (reference below) that prompted some memories and catalyzed some additional thoughts. Student: I’ll study whether students learn better with OER than with traditional course materials! You’ve likely crossed over into the realm of OER-enabled pedagogy.). Me: Let’s hear it! Me: Let’s hear it!
Iterating Toward Openness
DECEMBER 2, 2019
I recently wrote a brief essay about the wonderful new UNESCO OER Recommendation. For those of you who don’t want to read the full analysis below, here’s the key takeaway: Imagine what would happen if making copies of OER was illegal. Under the definition of OER now adopted unanimously by UNESCO member states, it can be.
Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 9, 2020
In this first bite-sized installment I’m going to address the major flaw in the OER definition provided as part of the recent UNESCO OER Recommendation. I’ve written about this in general terms before, but with more time to ponder I now have a much clearer – and simpler – understanding of the problem.
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
At OpenEd18 I gave a presentation titled “Questioning the OER Orthodoxy: Is the Commons the Right Metaphor for our Work?” After this brief discussion, I asked “what if the commons is the wrong metaphor for our work with OER?” During the presentation, I shared the following contrasts between a commons and OER.
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