addressed the way we treat student writing as the waste product of assessment.

If texts — content — are at the heart of a course, and content is now shaped into a process that depends on learner engagement in order to function fully, then OER propels us into truly student-centered territory.

the learning-analytics industry still lacks the kinds of standards and protocols that would make it easy to extract, organize, and share such data among institutions for research purposes.

Sakai development is actually accelerating.

Preamble Share We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

educators and students alike have found themselves more and more flummoxed by a system that values assessment over engagement, learning management over discovery, content over community, outcomes over epiphanies

talking about open pedagogy as the “second power of open.”

talking about open pedagogy as the “second power of open.”

Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it?

the LMS’s institutionally friendly attributes have an important role in shaping our thinking about teaching and learning.

In considering considerations, I think it’s important to begin with a thinking (or erasing?) exercise that asks you to forget everything you know or think you know about ed tech and start over.  

Designing for Open Pedagogy with CCCOER

List of publications on open access research data

The essay competition will run until June 15th and will be judged by a committee of scientists, librarians, members of industry, and students based on the following criteria. 

SSRN had one of the early freemium business models for an open access service.

that OER can provide benefits to some schools, but that commercial resources will continue to have value because of the tech-based enhancements, in analytics and adaptive learning and other areas, that they offer beyond academic content.

Wiggins and McTighe’s solutions—backward design, sharing detailed rubrics with students, etc.—are certainly the right way to do teacher-centered, standards-driven education based on measurable outcomes.

Input feed: lkfitz's bookmarks

5 billion reasons for open access

FLEXspace is a repository and open online education resource institutions can use to research and share information about successful learning space design.

To me, this is what OER for the web should start to reflect.

Open access is not fully realized without open peer review, which would provide opportunities for scholarly dialogue and critique throughout the writing process and beyond, argues Alex Mueller.

Work on exploitation arising from asymmetries of information is an important example.

A public must allow for new members to join as the old fade away. A public must not die every semester. 

Around 40% of Swiss research is open access

first MOOC was open in the sense articulated by the Open Education Consortium: knowledge, insights, and information were shared between students, and new knowledge, skills, ideas, and understanding built through sharing. This is perhaps the purest form of open education, in which the instructor is a facilitator, and the students collaborate to create a shared understanding.

Cape Town Open Education Declaration (n.d.) declares that the promise of open education is that “each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge.

Jenkins’ argument is that cultural progress is necessarily the result of freedom

material objects that may be patentable, rather than copyrightable, may be open. The Open Design Definition, for example, was developed in 2000 by the Open Design Foundation for the world of manufacturing design

My experimentation with open pedagogy – and my attempts to guide students’ learning with/in and across open platforms – was a social endeavor that invited reciprocal networking.

I can be in Egypt and in my home office at the same time. And because I can communicate with her at any moment, unexpectedly, I am always in Egypt and in my home office.

Writing and submission. The process of compiling findings, writing accompanying narrative and making this available for public view and scrutiny can be simplified by the use of new improved software. These tools can help identify relevant papers through increasingly powerful learning algorithms (e.g. F1000Workspace, Mendeley, Readcube). They can also enable collaborative authoring (e.g. F1000Workspace, Overleaf, Google docs), and provide formatting tools to simplify the process of structuring an article to ensure all the necessary underlying information has been captured (e.g. F1000Workspace, EndNote). Submission for posting as a preprint, and/or for formal publication and peer review, should be as simple as a single click.

After hundreds of emails with developers and peer-reviewers, his open-source book will be ready for use at UConn. Neth began planning for the second version of the book in January and the project has taken more than four months.

SocialBoost — is a tech NGO that promotes open data and coordinates the activities of more than 1,000 IT-enthusiasts, biggest IT-companies and government bodies in Ukraine through hackathons for socially meaningful IT-projects, related to e-government, e-services, data visualization and open government data. SocialBoost has developed dozens of public services, interactive maps, websites for niche communities, as well as state projects such as data.gov.ua, ogp.gov.ua. SocialBoost builds the bridge between civic activists, government and IT-industry through technology. Main goal is to make government more open by crowdsourcing the creation of innovative public services with the help of civic society.

I utilize some of the useful critiques OA has generated to inform the discussion of OER creation and practice.

Books can learn from the web how to be bounded, but open.The web can learn from books how to be open, but bounded.

Active OER: Beyond open licensing policies

“free vs. open”

Blogs tend towards conversational and quotative reuse, which is great for some subject areas, but not so great for others. Wiki feeds forward into a consensus process that provides a high level of remix and reuse, but at the expense of personal control and the preservation of divergent goals. Wikity takes lessons from federated wiki, combining the individual control of blogging with the permissionless improvement of wiki.

Do we mean free open access?

the hyperlink provided a diversity and decentralisation that the real world lacked

We’re also losing the organic and open shape of the web. It’s becoming something much more rigid and more hierarchical.

The hyperlink was a way to abandon centralization — all the links, lines and hierarchies — and replace them with something more distributed, a system of nodes and networks.

Open Education Resources and Repositories

what we sell in the Open Textbook movement is not just reduced cost.

Those students that bought the cheap version of the text back in 1991? They were pill-splitters. And they failed at pill-splitting (and maybe at the course). Do we own that failure? What we’ve learned over the past five years or so in OER is that what we sell in the Open Textbook movement is not just reduced cost. It’s the simplicity that you can get when you’re not working with an industry trying to milk every last dollar out of students. It’s every student having their materials on day one, for as long as they like, without having to navigate “simple” questions of what to buy, what to rent, and when-is-the-book-on-the-syllabus-that’s-required-not-really-required.

Asking What Students Spend on Textbooks Is the Wrong Question

Pedagogy in Public: Open Education Unbound

Is it possible to add information to a resource without touching it?

The University of New Hampshire Open Educational Resources Ambassador Pilot

To maximize its utility

“In the last 15 years, we’ve seen a massive transition in the way academic publishing is being done,” said Jules Blais, an environmental scientist at the University of Ottawa and editor of FACETS.

Students Should Demand Their Colleges Produce Free Open Textbooks to End the Textbook Racket

To date 5'-cytosine methylation (5mC) has not been reported in Caenorhabditis elegans, and using ultra-performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) the existence of DNA methylation in T. spiralis was detected, making it the first 5mC reported in any species of nematode.

Giga Science Database

Scholarly communication is the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use.” –Association of College and Research Libraries

networked discovery of connections would be at the center of both the learning environment as designed by faculty and the learning environment as experienced by students

When you see young people as agents of change, rather than objects to be changed,

Students as Authors: Why Students Should Publish Their Class Essays Online

It also arguably just shifts the costs of a broken system from students to the library.

involving students throughout the entire process

it sometimes isn’t enough just to say “this will save students money so we should do it.

“While we have the ‘must do’ layer, there’s also that little bit of subversion here, giving kids that little bit of creativity and maybe a ray of hope,” Reisinger said. “I want them to learn that learning is not all about what someone else preordains for you. It’s OK to tinker and play with things.”

Researchers have ‘ethical obligation’ to share data

The Battle for Open: How openness won and why it doesn't feel like victory

Academic Publishing is a Goddamned Exploitative Farce

A Framework for Identifying and Evaluating Openly Networked Connected Learning Course Designs

In the MIT Libraries we’ve just launched a new and innovative approach for our scholarly communications program — and for our collections budget: the collections budget is now part of the scholarly communications program.

What occurs when we decide that agency and not expertise is the core principle of learning is that we must, as teachers, learn to see the very best in students.

Imagine having at least part of your virtual learning environment (VLE) open, not just for current students (and even current students usually can't see all the teaching that might be useful to them) but for non-students, prospective students, or staff members who want to know what's happening down the road, across the country, in that academic department that interests them. NetworkED 2020 Watch Donna at NetworkED 2020: The London University, as she asks 'what if all of London were a networked University?'There would be so much potential for seeing the different ways in which departments are teaching, for instance. Which departments of biology are doing what in their labs? What theoretical approaches are they taking?

Open data

Open Learning

Think about that, a student speaks up to represent her class.

The Open Stuff that I am interested in, is not just that anyone can walk through the door, as there are often ONLY IFs. They can walk through the door ONLY IF they create an account and login. They can walk through the door ONLY IF they are in certain parts of the world (geographic limits on media). Openness is not just a door.

you do not always know who is there with what class, or on their own.

inner cynic

open – that is, to make public, transparent, and participatory

As of fall 2015, the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) no longer expects any undergraduate to spend money on textbooks.

What is a business model?

open annotation.

Faculty want to share their life’s work with others that care about their niche too.

Textbook Cost Research Results

Many times, the work we do as educators is actually taking away some of the most powerful learning from our students.

Rebus Open Webbooks Building knowledge to build on

3 Keys to Designing Learner-Centered Spaces

Thoughts on using open eBooks as textbooks

Who Pays for Supplemental Materials?

Open educational resources and college textbook choices: a review of research on efficacy and perceptions

If the average college student spends approximately $1000 per year on textbooks and yet performs scholastically no better than the student who utilizes free OER, what exactly is being purchased with that $1000?

A multi-institutional study of the impact of opentextbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students

Rhizomatic learning as an open pedagogy

Alongside the Dutch government, which is using its presidency of the EU to push the case for open access, only Hungary, Romania, Sweden and the UK, share the view that academic publishers should stop charging readers a subscription and instead charge authors for publishing their papers.

The peer-reviewed journal marks a new era in academic journal publishing. Discrete Analysis will follow the "diamond open access" model - free to read and free to publish in - and will be entirely editor-owned with no publisher middleman.

right to privacy, while allowing them to make an informed choice about taking reasonable risks to their privacy in order to help advance research

OCW Educator: Sharing teaching approaches and materials from MIT with educators everywhere, for free

Open Pedagogy: Moving Forward

A Pre-flight Check: Response to Wiley’s Open Pedagogy Challenge

Notes on Open Pedagogy

A framework for assessing fitness for purpose in open educational resources

The OER is used to devise interactive ways of using OER to promote students’ engagement in the problem-solving process.

Pedagogy

Learners are engaged in solving real-world problems. Existing knowledge is activated as a foundation for new knowledge. New knowledge is demonstrated to the learner. New knowledge is applied by the learner. New knowledge is integrated into the learner’s world.

1) Providing open, accessible and quality content for a wider community of teachers and learners.  2) Sharing best practice and helping to avoid re-inventing the wheel.  3) Helping developing countries improve and expand learning for development opportunities.  4) Offering flexible non-formal and informal knowledge and skills accumulation pathways to formal study.  5) Providing learning opportunities for geographically, socially or economically excluded students and non-traditional and work-based learners.  6) Improving the quality of conventional and online education by achieving greater awareness of open and inclusive educational practices and varied perspectives on fields of study.  7) Enabling collaboration between institutions, sectors, disciplines and countries.

Inquiry Learning Vs. Standardized Content: Can They Coexist?

The feed is how stuff enters their content system. But the feed itself is outside, leaving it available for other services to use. It's great when this happens, rather than doing it via a WG that tend to go on for years, and create stuff that's super-complicated, why not design something that works for you, put it out there with no restrictions and let whatever's going to happen happen.

Re-Envisioning Paulo Freire's "Banking Concept of Education"

Sci-Hub: the debate continues

Academic freedom is for students, too

The power of open

High academic journal prices justify sharing of illegal articles

Framing our Open EdTech project

The university must promote teaching excellence and the use of open learning methods

We don’t know if content will be interoperable – that is, usable beyond the Amazon (Kindle) ecosystem – or if there’ll be integration with other software systems.

federally funded research publicly accessible are becoming the norm

BC Open Textbook Authoring Guide

the MLA Commons is built on top of Commons in a Box

An Open Education Reader