Political and technological dislocation have fed off each other since the nation’s founding. Now they are dangerously out of whack.

I believe a model where commercial providers develop and maintain open scholarly communications infrastructure requires four basic principles of openness: Open Source, Open Data, Open Integrations, and Open Contracts.

The plan, which was initiated by Robert Jan Smits, the Open Access Envoy of the European Commission, outlines 10 principles, which can be distilled into four essential actions:

Stakeholder FAQs

Open education resources and perceptions of financial value

Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part II

Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part 1

The College of Social Sciences and Humanities is a leader in the experiential liberal arts.

The Promise of the Experiential Liberal Arts

Between publishers' higher costs of textbooks and students' struggle with large amounts of reading materials, getting students to both access and engage more deeply with texts is a challenge.

most of all, re-establishes education as a force for equity and social mobility — and I think open licensing is a crucial piece of that equation.I’m not content, though, with open licensing being the extent of our vision, and I hope many others feel the same way.

Collaboration started during April, 2018.

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Administrators who are charged with the development of open education policy may not fully understand the opportunities inherent in OER and OEP, partic-ularly for learners.

Open Education: Policies

They clearly align the open education policy with the university’s mission statement and strategic goals.

Open Education: Practices

Open Education: Content

7 Things You Should Know About Open Education: Policies

7 Things You Should Know About Open Education: Content

7 Things You Should Know About Open Education: Practices

The parable of the farmers and the Teleporting Duplicator

Ten Principles of Self-Sovereign Identity

a self-elected “rogue” state

Unfortunately, powerful institutions co-opted their efforts and kept them from fully realizing their goals.

The Practice of Change Joi's Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance PhD Dissertation.

Commentary: At Lansing Community College in Michigan, OER has been transformative. The college's librarian describes what it will take to make OER work long-term.

Applications for New Awards; Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education-Open Textbooks Pilot Program

Teaching Tech Together

The Committee on Coherence at Scale, sponsored by CLIR, analyzes emerging national-scale digital projects and their potential to help transform higher education in terms of scholarly productivity, teaching, cost-efficiency, and sustainability.

Embodying a commitment to learner-driven education, OEP involves students in “active, constructive engagement with [open] content, tools and services in the learning process” in ways designed to help promote learners’ self-management, cre-ativity, and ability to work in teams.

OEP provide the architecture and philosophical underpin-ning for fulfilling the promise of using OER to expand collabora-tive, inclusive, accessible, and active learning and related pedagogy.

A key tenet is the positioning of the learner as a central, active player in the learning experience.

Going forward, practitioners and researchers envision that the focus around OEP will evolve from a relatively narrow emphasis on development, revising, and distribution of OER to further development of related practices, architectures, principles, and policies

an institutional rather than a user focus

e-portfolios did not become the standard form of assessment as proposed

for many students owning their own domain and blog remains a better route to establishing a lifelong digital identity

e-portfolios

What has changed, what remains the same, and what general patterns can be discerned from the past twenty years in the fast-changing field of edtech?

2008: E-Portfolios

StoryEngine is way to listen to, support, and create with the people who matter most to an organization or a cause. It can be used to do research, to monitor or evaluate a program, to generate learning, or facilitate grant reporting. StoryEngine is based in-depth interviews that get transformed into stories. These stories are assets — for communications, advocacy, and more — as well as data. Together the stories create larger dataset that can analyzed to surface insights and learning that inform decision-making.

This report provides institutional leaders with a better understanding of the IT experiences and needs of their faculty who engage in research or seek to expand their research capabilities.

3 Strategies for Overcoming Faculty Resistance to Active Learning Techniques

Building Blocks

OER support the practice of open ed-ucation, an umbrella term for the mix of open content, practices, policies, and communities that, properly leveraged, can provide broad access to effective learning opportunities for everyone.

Working in an open education envi-ronment might better prepare students for work in today’s in-creasingly collaborative and interdisciplinary workplaces.

Many practitioners argue that open education could be positioned as a core education prac-tice, with learners producing, evaluating, using, revising, and shar-ing OER

Open Education: Content

OER support the practice of open ed-ucation, an umbrella term for the mix of open content, practices, policies, and communities that, properly leveraged, can provide broad access to effective learning materials for everyone.

Digital and Information Literacy Framework

The Open Revolution Rewriting the rules of the information age

Reimagining the Higher Education Ecosystem

Transparency agendas are being used to legislate against consortial open-access models even though it has good cost outcomes

Insight & Analysis into Modern Marketing Practices

The Students at the Center Hub is a resource for educators, families, students and communities wanting to learn more about research, best practices, supportive policies, and how to talk about student-centered approaches to learning.

The survey results are most clear in defining how the ORFG should approach openinfrastructure issues, and less clear as to what specific opportunities should be our focus. Asan organization, there is some enthusiasm for concentrating on projects that (1) are notredundant in the landscape, (2) have some track record, (3) require a finite (as opposed toongoing) commitment; and (4) are straightforward to pitch to internal funder stakeholders andgrantees.

Keith Webster and David Scherer

Developing the Scholarly Communication Ecosystem [podcast]

Students have taken the technology and used it for what the technology is able to do."

Are they invested in their own learning?

Students also frequent other online sharing resources

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Harvesting Academic Innovation for Learners

higher education has always existed in the complex domain because it is a human system rather than a mechanical one

George Siemens suggests that the Cynefin framework may be the "best guidance . . . on how to function in our current context."

Although we graduate students into the larger economy, we educate them not to serve it but to shape it.

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The Open Education Tools Symposium, hosted by Hypothes.is in January 2017—with the support of the HewlettFoundation—for the express purpose of identifying the gaps and needs in OER technical infrastructure foundthat “even with the close focus on OER technical infrastructure, the conversations over the two-day event were wide ranging and often lingered on broader questions facing the OER movement: who exactly are we building for; is it really working?....no complete picture of the gaps in OER tooling became apparent during the symposium...”.

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A purpose that is vague or general, such as for instance ‘Improving users’ experience’, ‘marketing purposes’, or ‘future research’ will – without further detail – usually not meet the criteria of being ‘specific’”.[

The GDPR permits the opt-out approach when the purposes that the companies want to use the data for are “compatible” with the original purpose for which personal data were shared by users.[6] In addition to the opt-out notice, users also have to be told of their right to object at any time to the use of their data for direct marketing.[7]

Big ‘Open’ Educational Resources Provider Joins Forces With Microsoft

An Open Approach to Scholarly Reading and Knowledge Management

Today, while many benefit from the past contributions of members of the OER community, the sustainability of the movement itself is directly related to the future health and vibrancy of new community contributions.

Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship

commercial OER publishers

the OER movement benefits and is itself enriched from the broad participation of individuals

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Locating people at the center of the CARE Framework serves to remind us first and foremost of the broader social context and purpose of the OER movement.

the predominant business models of the educational technology and publishing industries have been predicated on the concept of access limitations and scarcity

reused, adapted, and shared

It aims to address the question of how an individual, institution, or organization seeking to be a good steward can contribute to the growth and sustainability of the OER movement consistent with the community’s values.

how we might sustainably scale the movement over time and across diverse contexts, while still staying true to the values of openness that attracted so many to OER in the first place

analogous “open” efforts

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unrestricted by traditional copyright

Lisa Petrides

C. Edward Watson

Douglas Levin

A Guide to Good OER Stewardship

Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship

The CARE Framework

The CARE Framework

OER, CARE, Stewardship, and the Commons

Inaugural Study Finds Nearly 15 Million Americans Earning Billions in the New Creative Economy

Most of the world’s most intractable problems have not gone unsolved because of a lack of ingenuity. They’ve gone unsolved because they exist within complex, interlocking systems that must be healed concurrently over generations.

OA Publishing Tools

An A-Z list of scholarly publishing platforms (Updated 10 Feb 2018)

Decision-making criteria

K-12 Media Literacy No Panacea for Fake News, Report Argues

A better marketing plan for your open source software project The history and evolution of marketing in open source demonstrates a need for new approaches.

Stringing beads: from tool combinations to workflows

Teaching, Learning, and IT Issues: Points of Intersection

The IT and the T&L visions are thus fairly congruent: integrating disparate applications so that they offer our communities a consolidated environment and more customizable functionality. These are invigorating and also daunting challenges.

with more data comes more responsibility

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Key Issues in Teaching and Learning surveys

EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues

Strategic Planning with Remote Teams: Does it really work?

“If we just reward content based on raw clicks and engagement, we might actually see content that is increasingly sensationalist, clickbaity, polarizing, and divisive,” she says. A social network that rewards only clicks, not subscriptions, is like a dating service that encourages one-night stands but not marriages.

“Social networks enable malicious actors to operate at platform scale, because they were designed for fast information flows and virality,”

Zuckerberg’s conference room (called the Aquarium) and Sandberg’s (called Only Good News)

Simultaneously, authority over the algorithm shifted to a team of engineers based in Seattle. Very quickly the module started to surface lies and fiction.

“We traced the creation of the Facebook accounts to IP addresses at the Apple store a block away from the MySpace offices in Santa Monica,”

If Facebook didn’t start offering a better deal to the publishing industry, Thomson and Murdoch conveyed in stark terms, Zuckerberg could expect News Corp executives to become much more public in their denunciations and much more open in their lobbying.

whether News Feed should be modified to better deal with some of the most complex issues facing the product. Does it favor posts that make people angry? Does it favor simple or even false ideas over complex and true ones?

As often happens when outsiders meet with Facebook, people used the time to try to figure out how they could get more followers for their own pages.

Facebook decided, too, that it had to extend an olive branch to the entire American right wing, much of which was raging about the company’s supposed perfidy.

But it’s hard to argue that this wasn’t an editorial decision. It may be one of the biggest ever made.

Facebook has long seemed to think it has immunity from those debates because it is just a technology company—one that has built a “platform for all ideas.”

When new recruits come in, they are treated to an orientation lecture by Chris Cox, the company’s chief product officer, who tells them Facebook is an entirely new communications platform for the 21st century, as the telephone was for the 20th. But if anyone inside Facebook is unconvinced by religion, there is also Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act to recommend the idea.

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Top 10 IT Issues, 2018: The Remaking of Higher Education

IT organizations will be focusing on four areas this year: Institutional adaptiveness IT adaptiveness Improved student outcomes Improved decision-making

But Alphabet did flag “misleading” information and “objectionable content” as risks to the company’s financial performance in its annual report this week, for the first time ever.

Remote collaboration pain? Try a dash of Google Drawings!

competency-based education and new methods of assessment (from #5 to #16)

See how the results of the latest ELI Key Issues in Teaching and Learning Survey stack up against responses from years past.

Key Issues in Teaching and Learning

Open Education

Digital and Information Literacies

Digital Literacy

Digital Literacyin Higher Education, Part II

Policy Recommendations on Open Education in Europe (OpenEdu Policies)

The Commission proposes to fund a European Commission Open Research Publishing Platform ('the platform') The main aim of the platform is to offer Horizon 2020 beneficiaries a free and fast publication possibility for peer reviewed articlesas well as pre-prints resulting from Horizon 2020 funding.

Antigonish 2.0: A Way for Higher Ed to Help Save the Web

In global terms, digital inequalities continue to be well-documented and, in many instances, divides across lines of geography, gender, age, physical abilities, socio-economic status, language, and educational attainment are growing.

Higher Education, Digital Divides, and a Balkanized Internet

the first and second digital divides

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