- Apr 2021
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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series of open resources
Combining the OER push with some unbundling, perhaps?
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- Sep 2020
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www.ben-evans.com www.ben-evans.com
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There’s lots of bundling and unbundling coming, as always. Everything will be ‘video’ and then it will disappear inside.
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- Nov 2017
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www.educause.edu www.educause.edu
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Courses are severely limited in the ability to access other courses even within the institution (so much for "connecting silos"), and when courses end, students are typically cast out, unable to refer to past activity in their ongoing studies or in their lives (so much for "promoting lifelong learning").
Which is where a different type of unbundling can happen. “Courses” may limit our thinking.
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opencontent.org opencontent.org
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When you think the problem to be solved is the high cost of textbooks, inclusive access programs and OER adoption are just two competing approaches to solving the problem.
There was an interesting example of this during a short conference on digital textbooks, back in late 2014. Cindy Ives interim VP Academic at Athabasca (!) presented the etext pilot project in partnership with publishers. Ives’s approach was quite pragmatic and there’s nothing wrong with doing a pilot project on something like this. By that time, Ives was already involved in OER projects. It still struck a chord with those of us who care about OER, including Éric Francoeur who took an active part in the event and did work to create a free textbook through international and interlinguistic collaboration.
To me, a key notion from the ‘r’ in “OER” is the distinction with those content bundles we still call “textbooks”. Sure, it’s already in the 5-R model. But the “Remix” idea in music is to a large extent about unbundling.
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- Sep 2016
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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We might also blur the lines separating the campus from the outside world, by integrating more experiential learning into educational pathways, whether in the form of internships or e-internships, clinical or field experiences, or service learning, and further blur the line between high school and post-secondary education by integrating foundational courses, tightly aligned with college expectations, into secondary school.
A fair amount to unpack, here. But it sounds like the core idea of the piece relate to “The Great Unbundling of Education”, with nods to informal learning and cross-sector training.
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- Jul 2016
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www.seattletimes.com www.seattletimes.com
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That competency profile is part of a transformation Craig sees coming, “the great unbundling of higher education,” to borrow his 2015 book’s subtitle.
Oh, yeah, right… Almost forgot about this 2015 term…
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- Jan 2016
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www.talkingnewmedia.com www.talkingnewmedia.com
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deconstructed and re-created
Sounds like a time-consuming process, but maybe there’s value in chunking the content to be adapted to diverse contexts.
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- Dec 2015
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www.tonybates.ca www.tonybates.ca
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Lego approach
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www.knewton.com www.knewton.com
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the unit size of higher ed will begin to change from a traditional four-year on-campus bundled experience to more of a course-based experience
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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In every industry, the early successful products and services often have an interdependent architecture—meaning that they tend to be proprietary and bundled.
The idea that there’s a “Great Unbundling of (Higher) Education” needs not be restricted to the business side of things, but it’s partly driven by those who perceive education as an “industry”. Producing… graduates?
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- Nov 2015
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www.edsurge.com www.edsurge.com
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check off on your way to an institution-defined collection of competencies that they call a “degree.”
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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approach of breaking learning down into teeny, tiny bits, tied to fine-grained competencies and micro-assessments
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