A persistent, progressive profile that builds a universal transcript
personal cyber infrastructure
A persistent, progressive profile that builds a universal transcript
personal cyber infrastructure
Director of Digital Engagement
MOOCs haven't lived up to the hopes and the hype, Stanford participants say
The Moodle Gradebook
On weak ties and faculty OER research
Annotation, too, might change
give Hypothes.is a try
Here's a very rough overview video of Hypothesis in action (3 min). Video
Holiday Harmonies

Bob Hlasny
Who is this?
This could be reading a book, free writing, or exercise.
Any other suggestions for stress-relieving activities?
The No. 1 Predictor Of Career Success According To Network Science
2 in 1 devices
Supporting Open Textbook Adoption in British Columbia
At the fall of the Roman Empire (ca. 420), the Romantroops were called back to the continent, and Britainwas left undefended.
Why were the Romans called back?
Bag Of Gold
Gooru, a Redwood City, Calif.-based nonprofit that relies on educators as "crowdsourcers." The Gooru platform is geared toward teachers building collections of open-ed multimedia resources and students directing their own learning.
Flood of Open Education Resources Challenges Educators
Open Education Resources provide cheaper textbook alternative
Eight Ways to Experiment With Annotation Using The New York Times
Digital Storytelling Syllabus
Introduction to Sociology 2e
5 key lessons learned through the B.C. Open Textbook Project
Reclaim the Portfolio
eportfolio
“What we’re seeing is that the general public wants to read scholarly papers.”
Steelcase & GVSU
Stanford d.school
Dutch universities and Elsevier reach deal over open access
Faculty Stipends for Open Educational Resources and Open Pedagogy
BCcampus estimates that students have saved nearly $1 million dollars already on textbook costs thanks to open textbooks.
BC Open Textbook Authoring Guide
vocab
Open education is a means, a way of doing something; it isn’t something. That something is for individuals to arrive at however they want to get there–that’s the point of making it all “open.” I hope they share that awesomeness when they arrive at it, but they don’t have to.
Process not product.
Textbooks Out of Step With Scientists on Climate Change, Study Says
About Blackboard Collaborate with the Ultra Experience
Defining the "Open" in Open Content
Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup
Open Education Resources (OERs) Primer: Introduction
UNDERSTANDINGOPEN ACCESS
The real problem with textbooks, though, is that focusing on them is focusing on content. When learning, and open education, should focus more on process (a conversation on this from a year ago across my blog, Jim Groom’s, Mike Caulfield’s and David Wiley’s).
“why textbooks?”
Is That What We Meant?
The limitations of access alone: Moving towards open processes in education technology
SPLOT on Open Ed 2015
tru writer
SPLOT
splots
ns cloner
openedtech
Nanodegree Program Summary Machine learning represents a key evolution in the fields of computer science, data analysis, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. It has quickly become industry's preferred way to make sense of the staggering volume of data our modern world produces. Machine learning engineers build programs that dynamically perform the analyses that data scientists used to perform manually. These programs can “learn” based on millions of experiences, all rigorously and numerically defined.
Google is merely interested sharing the code. As Dean says, this will help the company improve this code. But at the same time, says Monga, it will also help improve machine learning as a whole, breeding all sorts of new ideas. And, well, these too will find their way back into Google. “Any advances in machine learning,” he says, “will be advances for us as well.”
U Wisconsin Stout Gets Grant for Open Textbook Pilot
All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua, one of the top journals in linguistics, last week resigned to protest Elsevier’s policies on pricing and its refusal to convert the journal to an open-access publication that would be free online. As soon as January, when the departing editors’ noncompete contracts expire, they plan to start a new open-access journal to be called Glossa.”
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Pinterest board
Better Lesson: A Common Core Aligned OER
USD 501 teachers looking to replace science textbooks with Web-based instruction
What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs
This article included an estimate from the system that further backs up the $530 – $640 figures. [Hanley’s] rough estimate: As of a few years ago, learners at the 23-campus, 460,200-student university system were spending $300 million a year on course materials — about $651 per student per school year.
This graph is the kicker. It is NOT about textbook costs, it's about how much students can afford to spend. The amount hasn't changed, or has gone down, since '02!
Open Education Handbook 2014
All about open education
Open Education We believe that educational opportunities should be available to all learners. Creating an open education ecosystem involves making learning materials, data, and educational opportunities available without restrictions imposed by copyright laws, access barriers, or exclusive proprietary systems that lack interoperability and limit the free exchange of information.
DOE office of ed tech
“Instead of having one prescribed way to do things that comes from a textbook, kids can do things where they’re truly interested,” says Lori Secrist. “When they’re truly interested, they’re engaged. And when they’re engaged, they learn.”
On Campus: North Dakota University System to continue support for open textbook initiative
dakota OER initiative
North Dakota OER initiative
dakota
OER Research
Discover, Search and Find
Affordable Georgia OER
TRENDS INCOLLEGEPRICING2015
tuition
OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ASSESSMENTPurdue University
Canvas vs. Bb
Mobile Internet Usage Skyrockets in Past 4 Years to Overtake Desktop as Most Used Digital Platform
Center Priorities
priorities
Most centers (81%) report up through the Provost or Academic Affairs Office. The remainder report to the CIO (6%), the library (2%) or “other” units such as a special learning or innovation
Technology is often not the leading focus of most of these efforts, but rather viewed as a tool to potentially help achieve desired outcomes. UT-‐Austin, for example, has created an Associate Vice Provost for Learning Sciences position that oversees a Learning Sciences group that includes faculty developers, digital content developers, technologists, and a unified learning analytics infrastructure. Duke’s center, which is the only one among the 17 that reports up through the library, works very hard to take faculty who come in wanting to test a new technology and get them thinking, instead, about transforming their course. This is also true for Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center, which grounds any technical solutions in the desired learning outcomes
In the past few years, many colleges have expanded the scale and scope of centers that support teaching and learning with technology, as part of an effort to build a new “innovation infrastructure” for instruction.
Innovation infrastructure
In other words, supporting teaching with technology is becoming less about offering training sessions for professors about how to use clickers and course-management systems, and more about coordinating bigger-impact projects like redesigning large introductory courses or leading the creation of a new online-degree program.
Agreed, but ed tech support is still a basic need of faculty. Though things are changing (at least philosophically), there are sound digital pedagogical approaches that rely on knowledgeable and innovative instructional technologists and designers.
The 10 Ed-Tech Companies That Are Raising the Most Money
U.S. Education Department Proposes Open Licensing Policy As Part of #GoOpen
The Coming of OERRelated to the enthusiasm for digital instructional resources,four-fifths (81percent) of the survey participants agreethat “Open Source textbooks/Open Education Resource(OER) content “will be an important source for instructional resources in five yea
artificial intelligence
Superintelligence
Technology Won’t Save Our Schools
This chapter suggests two ways to make the grading of writing easier,fairer, and more helpful for students: using minimal grades or fewerlevels of quality, and using criteria that spell out the features of goodwriting that we are looking for in the assignment.Grading Student Writing: MakingIt Simpler, Fairer, Clearer
At William & Mary, one way Swem Library is leading the way is by bringing open educational resources (OER) to the campus.
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Letter: Legislators should stand up for students
The Impact of Open Textbooks on Secondary Science Learning Outcomes
A&M University Libraries Working To Solve Problem Of Expensive Textbooks
Educational Technology on Trial | From the Bell Tower
Our Agenda for Technology Integration: It’s Time to Choose
technocentrism
Does Integrating Computers into Lessons Mean That Teaching Has Changed?
So let’s take #fedwiki. I love Mike Caulfield. I love that he invited me to join the first #fedwikihappening which I truly enjoyed and learned SO MUCH from.
The #dlrn15 Discourse #Resonated #NotResonated
U of M's Open Textbook Network reports student savings of $1.5 million from open textbooks
Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative
Of the two textbooks Mr. Bourget chose as replacements, one cost $76 and the other was free.
new textbook initiative
And we see that develop into the web as we know it today. A web of “hey this is cool” one-hop links. A web where where links are used to create a conversational trail (a sort of “read this if you want to understand what I am riffing on” link) instead of associations of ideas.
Serial stream.
And it’s about getting back to the idea that our Personal Learning Network isn’t just our twitter followers, but is an effort to connect work together not just people. And maybe to understand the process of connecting and building and extending the work of others is as human and engaging as the conversational Stream.
Personal Learning Network - not just about people
Your machine is a library not a publication device. You have copies of documents is there that you control directly, that you can annotate, change, add links to, summarize, and this is because the memex is a tool to think with, not a tool to publish with.
Now when people talk about Bush’s article, they are usually talking about the portion that starts around section six, which seems so prescient, so predictive of the web to come.
Ha. That's exactly what I focused in on!
To understand a statement you must go back to things before, you must find out what it was replying to, you must know the person who wrote it and their speech context. To understand your statement I must reconstruct your entire stream.
With little confidence you will find all the parts to fully reconstruct in a manner reflective of the intention in the past, let alone the current perspective.
It’s not that you are passive in the Stream. You can be active. But your actions in there — your blog posts, @ mentions, forum comments — exist in a context that is collapsed down to a simple timeline of events that together form a narrative.
And so much of that narrative can be missed, or difficult to reconstruct, once it is down stream.
Over time these things you write up start to form a deep network that helps you think.
Section 6. The root of our problem with selection is the inadequacy of the indexing systems. Records are sorted alphabetically or numerically, this classification being inadequate to the human mind, which is associative by nature. Selection by association may be mechanized, improving (not the speed and flexibility) but the permanence and clarity of the stored informations.
Root of the problem...
Open educational resources
OER Dynamic Search Engine
Find OER
Finding OERs
MOOC News
toronto moocs
College Textbooks: Do You Get What You Pay For?
Open Research MOOC
The second level of Open Access is Gold Open Access, which requires the author to pay the publishing platform a fee to have their work placed somewhere it can be accessed for free. These fees can range in the hundreds to thousands of dollars.
Not necessarily true. This is a misconception. "About 70 percent of OA journals charge no APCs at all. We’ve known this for a decade but it’s still widely overlooked by people who should know better." -Suber http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/09/opinion/not-dead-yet/an-interview-with-peter-suber-on-open-access-not-dead-yet/#_
Faculty Senate wants work published through Open Access
67. In the Loop Year: 2009 Director: Armando Iannucci If clever verbal humor were easy, we’d have more comedies like In the Loop. But it’s not, and this one stands in a class of its own. It’s the most quotable film of the decade—by miles—and the cynical potty mouths on screen are so articulate and creative that, after the avalanche of witticisms, you’re left with the lingering sense that you’ve seen not just a funny movie but also a wicked political satire of the highest order, the kind where the absurdity speaks for itself.—Robert Davis
Web Literacy Competencies
CIOs think they should provide porftolios
Emergingn Learning Design
OERu feed
Wiki for OERu
OERu strategic planning
destroy the university
Periscope tutorial
Education websites.
actual cost of college
emory
From knowing to learning An immediate outcome of this transition is that we no longer ask, “Do students know this?” Instead, we can ask, “How do students learn this?” Giving students learning activities as an assessment has the benefit of assessing a meaningful aspect of their learning, that is, their ability to make sense of new challenges. This paradigm is often termed preparation for future learning assessment, or PFL.
My favorite feature though is the control over privacy. I have always kept my class streams private. Before Known I used Google+, but now I can have a public stream that empowers students to make decisions over their privacy.Students not only control what they share but where they share it. I subscribe to Known’s Convoy feature
Can students' continue to use Known after the course is over and morph it into their own blog? What if they have other classes that use Known too? Does the student use the same space? Copy over content to their main Known account?
Dear Universities everywhere, building a portfolio and a presence are not the same thing
university portfolios vs. personal domains?
Known offers great hosting packages for students
So does ReclaimHosting.com. Students can install and run WP, Known, Mahara, etc.
Many of my students have chosen Known as their blogging platform.
Would anyone care to share examples of students' Known blogs?
First I review the benefits of learning in the open to build a web presence.
What is your favorite phrase to describe what this process is (e.t. digital identity, open learning, digital literacy, etc.)?
Greg's P&T portfolio
ECDS: 2016 Digital Scholarship Residency
Open Access - The book.
What Is Open Access?
Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes
timeline
We need to rely on a network of people
RFP
And believe me, my temperament is very good, very calm. But we will be respected outside of this country. We are not respected now.
Frightening.
The rankings appear to be dead.
rankings
If you have a Centre for Teaching and Learning or a Learning Technology unit, they should have such specialists. It would also be sensible to make sure that an instructional designer also attends your first meeting, as their skills are somewhat different, although related.
However, the dynamic of post-secondary institutions is such that this direction could and probably will change dramatically. In the future, we will need instructors who have the skills to decide when and how to use online learning as part of their jobs, and not see online learning as a specialty of someone else.
PowerPointless 24.4k 3.5k 109 Digital slideshows are the scourge of higher education.
Some college presidents have pointed to interdisciplinarity to justify the elimination of separate disciplinary departments or programs. What do you make of these moves?
For one thing, inspired since childhood by Carl Sagan’s vivid explanations of the cosmos, he had dreamed of leaving academe to become a public educator.
Interesting choice of words... leaving Iowa State University/academe to become a "public" educator.
The more interesting challenge for an open learning architecture is how to scale agile and distinct environments across and among many courses — or even better, across several institutions and across the web itself. This moves us back toward a network of networks, a foundational principle of the Internet.
Perhaps a "flipped MOOC" might work?
But as David Kernohan remarks, sometimes innovation can be "the art of circumventing large monolithic systems to actually get some stuff done."
Amen!
Five Arguments against the Learning Management System
Indeed, it was often unclear from the level of engagement which participants were physically present at DPL and which were watching from afar. The present-absent-present dance was fascinating to observe.
As a "virtual attendee" or "lurker" or "scoper," it was difficult to follow and frustrating at times, but super helpful and fun too, especially as resources (images, links, quotes) were shared out. Communicating the context of those resources is still a pretty tricky thing to do well.
Bennett Merriman, young entrepreneur and director of a workforce management company, told a recent higher education conference that connectivity in our work place is important. He recommended that students should spend time developing their networks throughout their studies.
They should focus on learning through experience and the cycle of failure inherent in creative endeavours. Rather than defining measurable learning outcomes, curricula should support aspirational outcomes that ignite lifelong learning and encourage inquiry beyond the classroom.
Universities must also get comfortable with the idea of providing an education focused on the whole person rather than only acquiring discipline-specific knowledge and skills. This has been accomplished at Stanford University where students undertake “missions not majors”.
…move away from measuring academic success according to rigid marking criteria. They should focus on learning through experience and the cycle of failure inherent in creative endeavours.
do we focus on creating students who are ‘job ready’ for today, or who are ‘entrepreneurially spirited’ for the world which is likely to be on their doorstep within the next twenty years?
"What really is our role as professors?" he asks. "Is our role to simply give out information and people will use it as they wish? Or is our role to honestly and truly help guide people to be who they are and how they will live their life?"
77 cents of every dollar spent on textbooks go to publishers. Of those 77 cents, the publishing company makes about 18 cents in pure profit, while spending 15 cents on marketing, and roughly 32 percent to cover costs (paper, printing, employee salaries, etc). At the same time, the author - the person who dedicated hundreds of hours of research to write the book – only gets about 12 cents on the dollar on average.
learning is the act of recognizing patterns shaped by complex networks
Knowledge is, on this theory, literally the set of connections formed by actions and experience.
the learning is the network
Learning is considered a “. . . knowledge creation process . . . not only knowledge consumption.”
The capacity to know is more critical than what is actually known
Secondly,instructionaldesigners,duetothedevelopingcomplexityoftoolsandavailabilityofopeneducationresources,playaneducationalroleofdirectingeducatorstotoolsandresources.Thesetwofoundationalchanges,whilepresentedhereasaconceptualdiscussionandinneedofadditionalexperimentationandevaluation,mayserveasleversforbroaderchangeswithintheacademy
Is Your Performance Review System Outdated
outcome
manifesto
We’ll have an even more humane, ethical, productive, and effective version of the courseware when we come out of the pilot in Spring term.
Yikes. Sounds a little scary.
Resource Roundup. Great collection of OER resources.
Promoting digital ownership is different than assigning work in publicly accessible spaces.