What is “Connected Learning?”

Teacher DIY Professional Development

Education Is Sharing

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

A Journey to discover what is Indie Ed-tech

Cluster-Hiring Cluster &%*#?

Students are even designing programming solutions to problems that arise in class.

“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.”

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

But if we can continue to help faculty move along the spectrum—perhaps from the multi-user eBook to an open textbook, and eventually to their students editing and re-sharing improvements to that open textbook—isn’t it worth our time and effort to pursue these projects too?

The Classroom of the Future

#IndieEdTech: The Compilation

How to Master Microsoft Office Outlook

A personal API

Designing Next-Generation Universities

Often you will need to work closely with technical experts on your campus, not simply as resources, but as co-creators. Take advantage of opportunities to collaborate with staff and faculty across the disciplines in different ways, experimenting and brainstorming in the new vocabulary of DH that accommodates insights and approaches from all fields.

At the core of the personal API is the radical mission to put control over data (and its access) in the hands of students. This is both a pedagogical act and a creative opportunity, informing students that they can access their own information as well as create interfaces to do with that data what they please. It gives them a seat at the tables where the edtech powers sit, moving them one step closer to a status of equality rather than that of a passive consumer.

Digital Overtakes Print

Researchers have ‘ethical obligation’ to share data

this new API will also aid in furthering education and “help[ing] students understand their personal identities

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

 I am definitely intrigued by the idea that now there could be this extra layer of annotations on any webpage - and that communities

Academic Publishing is a Goddamned Exploitative Farce

the use of networks is gradually nudging aside more traditional problem-solving approaches based on the marketplace and the choice of a small leadership group or “hierarchies.”

As Fung explains, wicked problems require “multi-sectoral problem-solving” and ways to remove the barriers to “pooling knowledge and coordinating action” through the formation of networks that connect organizations.7

Working in a transdisciplinary mode requires deep cultural and structural changes in any organization, including a college or university. Over the past twenty years or so, postsecondary institutions have been slowly embracing a culture of engagement that supports the new kinds of relationships and collaborations that will be needed to address the “big questions” and challenges that shape our era.

Altmetrics as a Potential Solution

Teachers who encourage kids to collect and build on ideas over time, because it’s fun to watch books or pictures or film projects or paintings develop and improve with practice, have the potential to boost creativity and learning. Teachers who encourage kids to build a portfolio solely for college admissions risk cultivating myopia and narcissism, as well as a kid who is overly focused on other people’s assessment of his or her self-worth.”

What Will Digital Portfolios Mean for College-Bound Students?

Knowing the Difference Between Digital Skills and Digital Literacies, and Teaching Both

But I see some promising changes that align with the emphasis in the Framework on creating rather than consuming, on understanding systems of information rather than how to find stuff, on context and making critical judgments that go beyond making convenient consumer choices. If we think about information as something communities create in conversation within a social and economic context rather than as a consumer good, we may put less emphasis on being local franchises for big information conglomerates and put more time, resources, and creativity into supporting local creativity and discovery. We may begin to do better at working across boundaries to support and fund open access to research rather than focusing most of our efforts on paying the rent and maintaining the security of our walled gardens. And as we make this shift, we may be able to stop teaching students how to shop efficiently for information that won’t be available once they graduate. We may help them think more critically about where knowledge comes from and how they can participate in making sense of things.

And this leads me to another thought- it seems like in our field there is this desire to go big, to scale, to teach hundreds of thousands, to affect an entire sector. Scale at the dimension is really only achieved by a process of mass duplication where the level of heart-felt connectivity is probably low.

The Personal in Indie

Team-based, contextualized learning underlies the instruction for each track;

“We wanted to create threads between courses so that students can understand connections,”

Ranty Blog Post about Big Data, Learning Analytics, & Higher Ed

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.

13 Possible Higher Ed Ideas from ‘Under New Management’

Park Hyatt Hadahaa

There is a human story behind every data point and as educators and innovators we have to shine a light on it.

Why not fashion creative writing studies out of individual scholars from many fields—creative writing, lit-erature, composition, but also psychology, neurology, communication studies, educational studies, business, and so on—and make it a true interdiscipline?

evolving field of creative writing. We’re changing the landscape of creative writing in part because we’re working in its midst and vibrantly so

So much good work in pedagogy is now being done that they had a three-year lag between article acceptance and publication

What Are the Impacts of Adopting OER?

The easiest way to take notes synchronized with videos!

Amazon Education working on new platform that offers free learning resources

Data Truth

How not to promote technology in teaching: An open letter

Lippman cites similar issues: “I definitely agree that quality is the biggest issue.  The faculty are always going to say ‘what’s the best material for class,’ and if the free material isn’t the best, than that’s going to raise issues.”

Open EducationalResources Policy

Connected Learning & Integrative Thinking: Teaching History at Virginia Tech

But grade inflation, and thus grades’ diminishing importance, is real. The question is whether we can see in this trend something better.

David Wiley of Lumen Learning calls this “content as infrastructure,”

ELA teachers can have their students analyze the rhetorical strategies in that same debate using an application like Hypothes.is. Looking at this speech through the lens of two different perspectives can deepen students’ knowledge.

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?

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

Textbook Cost Research Results

What makes a successful OER initiative?

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

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NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: 2016 Hohonu Moana: Exploring Deep Waters off Hawaiʻi

Rebus Open Webbooks Building knowledge to build on

The future of learning analytics, a future in which it is not passé, is one in which learning comes before management

Are We Finally Ready To Annotate The Entire Internet? – Fast Company

3 Keys to Designing Learner-Centered Spaces

“This was a resolution in support of Open Educational Resource textbooks as an option for both professors and students to decrease the financial burden that is placed increasingly on students in textbook costs,” O’Dea said. “This is something that the College and absolutely the Student Assembly should get behind and I think the student body will support this bill.”

Are We Finally Ready To Annotate The Entire Internet?

Last semester, students from Plymouth State University in New Hampshire were asked to annotate Sigmund Freud's work as a group, and they responded much like they would on a Facebook wall. "You could see the students rolling their eyes. They were saying things like, 'Oh my God, this guy! What is his deal with women and his mother?'" Dean says. "Some of it was joking around, and some of it was high engagement with the text. That's something you would only normally see inside a really well-managed class discussion in a brick and mortar classroom."

Annotation makes the reading process visible," Hanley says. "I encourage my students to annotate their texts to show them that the relationship between the reader and a text is a two-way conversation. It forces them to wrestle with the words on the page."

When I saw my students working in this hybrid fashion with the book, I realized that I have shifted into reading much the same way. Audio is for multitasking. Kindle is for quick reading and convenient reading. Print reading is for serious reading and studying.

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

The New England Daily Snow

Crafting Connected Courses

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.

Students say textbooks are too expensive – could an open access model be the answer?

“students whose faculty chose OER generally performed as well or better than students whose faculty assigned commercial textbooks.

“We see kids in their cars in the parking lot at night and on weekends,” says Buddy Berry, superintendent of Eminence Independent Schools. They’re there, he says, because they can access the Internet using the school’s wireless network—something many don’t have at home.

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

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

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.

unclear licensing information making it difficult to distinguish OER from other digital content

This under-utilization is attributed to the confusing multitude of repositories and distribution channels on the Web that make it time consuming or impractical to locate OER

Elon University is continuing development on its Experiences Transcript, which shows student involvement in extracurricular activities such as interning, service and study abroad. The university is working on a digital version of that transcript, which Green said resembles “a large infographic.”

OER is only really OER (inasmuch as it depends on its openness) if it is a process, in movement, embedded in pedagogy, and deeply engaged in a reciprocal relationship with its users” (para 15)

SOAR program,

Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Ithaca College SGA passes bill to utilize open textbooks

Inquiry Learning Vs. Standardized Content: Can They Coexist?

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

Resolution Supporting the Affordable College Textbook Act

Sci-Hub: the debate continues

The most ambitious Raspberry Pi projects

25 fun things to do with a Raspberry Pi

As Big-Data Companies Come to Teaching, a Pioneer Issues a Warning

Semantic Mapping vs. Pictorial Cues

playful annotation in the open.

This format [Hypothesis] is much better for me as far as encouraging participation. With the old discussion format that listed all the readings then posed questions for group discussion, I felt a bit overwhelmed by the long responses people offered and had a hard time jumping into the conversation. With Hypothes.is, I can offer my thoughts as I go, which I find to be much more effective in my assimilation of the information.

Academic freedom is for students, too

Faculty members skeptical of digital course materials, unfamiliar with OER

Provocation one: The death of the digital native

The power of open

This week you are invited to open the door and:

Teaching in a Digital Age

Twitter’s missing manual

What do we know about sharing?

Research  looking  at  the  learner  experience  of  Open  Education  Resources  (OERs)  is  sparse

Liberal arts colleges are increasingly exploring interdisciplinary connections to find a place for computer science on their campuses.

Slack is communication software popular for handling workplace information flow, project management, customer support, and all kinds of other things.

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