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  1. Oct 2018
    1. Universal education is now widely viewed as one of the basic requirements for a modern society and it serves as a chief catalyst for socio-economic and personal development.
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    1. OER is an equity strategy for higher education: providing all students with access to course materials on the first day of class serves to level the academic playing field in course settings

      OER and equity

    1. "The study indicates that, based on two years of implementation across scores of colleges, OER can be an important tool in helping more students — and particularly low-income and underrepresented students — afford college, engage actively in their learning, persist in their studies and ultimately complete,"
    1. We don’t measure the hard things. So we measure the easy things, and what you measure is what you value, we know that, so what are we measuring? We’re measuring admissions; we’re measuring retention; we’re measuring graduation; we’re measuring in a micro form the regurgitation of information…

      Pretty much sums it up...

    1. This kind of project, Paige said, decentralizes power. “I tell students I don’t have complete ownership of this knowledge,” she said.

      student agency, ownership, relevancy

    1. The expansion of publishers into course platforms, online homework packages, and course-in-a-box represents more of the same expansion of the publisher’s realm.

      Expansion, yes, but also a shift in their model. They are beginning to realize content/information is less marketable (thanks to internet, OER, CC license) and they are now increasingly selling the services mentioned wrapped around OER (openwrapping).

    2. The permission to revise or remix is meaningless if source code or source marked up texts or the original creation platform is not available. If it’s impossible or impractical to exercise the permissions, then they are useless virtue-signaling.

      The nut yet to be cracked and it pretty much has been eating away at me for years. On the plus side, I think we are getting closer to solutions, especially with open textbooks and PressBooks.

    1. For all the talk about data and learning, Essa offered this blunt assessment: “Pretty much all edtech sucks. And machine learning is not going to improve edtech.” So what’s missing? “It’s not about the data, but how do we apply it. The reason why this technology sucks is because we don’t do good design. We need good design people to understand how this works.”

      I'm pretty sure this doesn't make any sense. Also, it is pretty funny.

    1. Section 110-2 allows "the performance of a nondramatic literary or musical work or reasonable and limited portions of any other work, or display of a work in an amount comparable to that which is typically displayed in the course of a live classroom session" (emphasis added).The strict interpretation of this is that only "reasonable and limited portions" of a theatrical (dramatic) film may be presented online, that is, clips or perhaps longer scenes, but never whole works. However, since film studies courses frequently do involve live screenings of a series of theatrical films in a classroon setting, it is possible to interpret the law as allowing digital streaming of the film to be discussed, so that the students have the same opportunity to see the entire work as their on-campus counterparts.

      comparable to f2f experience

    1. The former law often permitted educational institutions to record and retain copies of the distance-education transmission, even if it included copyrighted content owned by others. The new law continues that possibility. The law also explicitly allows retention of the content and student access for a brief period of time, and it permits copying and storage that is incidental or necessary to the technical aspects of digital transmission systems.

      making copies

    2. Librarians may retain in the library collections copies of distance-education transmissions that the institution may make and hold consistent with the law. In turn, the librarians will need to develop collection polices, usage guidelines, and retention standards consistent with limits in the law.

      storing copies

    3. Displays of any work "in an amount comparable to that which is typically displayed in the course of a live classroom session."
    1. The materials on this course website are only for the use of students enrolled in this course for purposes associated with this course and may not be retained or further disseminated.  The materials on this course website may be protected by copyright; any further use of this material may be in violation of federal copyright law.

      TEACH Act

    1. "People will have to make their choices."

      Do all people have the same privilege of choice?

    2. just 28 percent of the 3,000 Facebook users surveyed by the organization believe Facebook is committed to privacy.
    1. We can involve students in the process of curating content for courses, either by offering them limited choices between different texts or by offering them solid time to curate a future unit more or less on their own (or in a group) as a research project.

      Content is a process, not a product.

  3. Sep 2018
    1. Stay on top of their courses anytime and anywhere, Easily connect with students via email filtering mechanisms, Monitor courses and view recently submitted assignments, Review due dates and items that need attention, Reply to discussion board postings, access adaptive learning technology, and post announcements while on the go
    1. “The survey’s results should be a wake-up call for everybody involved in higher education. This is especially true for the publishing industry, including our own company, as we historically contributed to the problem of college affordability,”

      Cengage Survey

    1. The 2017 report The Next Era of Human/Machine Partnerships states that 85 percent of the jobs that will be available in 2030 haven't even been invented yet.

      Hugely contested figure, BTW.

  4. Aug 2018
    1. YouTube Lectures by Kevin

      If you hold down the CMD or CTRL key while clicking the video links, the video will open up in a new tab. Otherwise, when you go "back" to the book from the video, you'll be sent back to the beginning of the book. Not great.

    1. View this animation to learn more about metabolic processes.

      Don't forget to check out this animation. How did this animation help you better understand metabolic processes? Are there any ways you would improve it?

    1. Educators – across disciplines, grade levels, and institutional contexts – appear interested in annotating their syllabi with their students
    1. Wineburg invokes the environmental movement, saying we need to cultivate an awareness of “digital pollution” on the Internet. “We have to get people to think that they are littering,”

      Come on... not even a nod to Mike's work.

    2. “Once you start getting kids to question information,” says Stanford’s Sarah McGrew, “they can fall into this attitude where nothing is reliable anymore.”

      I've heard Mike say THIS a bunch of times too.

    3. Wineburg has dubbed this lateral reading: if a person never leaves a site–as the professor failed to do–they are essentially wearing blinders.

      Dubbed? Hmmm...

    1. Still, over and above replacing expensive industry textbooks, OER proponents contemplate how the virtues inherent to open materials necessitate new kinds of teaching and learning, methods that embrace the open ethos to reuse, remix, revise, and redistribute in content and practice. David Wiley, for example, has challenged[4] instructors to discard the “disposable” individual assignment in favor of collaborative and “renewable” open projects. Gardner Campbell recently called[5] for an Open Pedagogy centered on producing insight, where educators turn design over to students, encouraging them to take responsibility for their own learning. The discourse spoke to me.

      Shifting roles. Increased agency, relevancy, and purpose.

    1. However, as admirable as James’ philanthropic efforts are, they are not a solution to the problems in public education.

      I don't think James ever claimed he was solving "the problems in public education." How about he's shining a light on ways increased public funding could stimulate public education?

    1. Progressive wisdom now seems to converge around the idea that students sharing their work beyond the classroom provides them with meaningful motivation to do that work and a greater sense of purpose than is available within the classroom alone.

      I've seen so many examples of increased motivation and care for the work they publicly share.

    1. Contributions to the practice and theory of teaching and learning literature, including publications in peer-reviewed and professional journals, conference publications, book chapters, textbooks and open education repositories/resources.

      P&T language supporting Open activities

  5. Jul 2018
    1. I wanted to share some of the amazing experiences we had, but I’m trying to wrestle the diary of my life out from the grips of problematic platforms like Facebook. I’m not much for personal blogging (most of my blog posts focus on teaching and learning), but I am trying it out to see if it seems like a workable alternative to sharing my life through mediated commercial channels.

      Thanks so much for sharing! Through your words and pictures, I feel like I've had a enchanting little holiday right from my desk! And also, thanks for not giving it to FB! :)

    1. Figure 2. Student Impact Regarding the Cost of Textbooks

      Wow. Solve textbook problem and you put a big dent in retention problem

    1. In terms of withdrawals, there were proportionally fewer withdrawals for the semester with the open-source textbook compared to the semester with the commercial textbook, a finding that was highly statistically significant (p < .001)

      withdrawls and open texts

    1. There is no global OER repository search, though there have been a number of attempts.

      This one is pretty robust at the moment... George Mason Metafinder

    1. The so-called “tired old model” of teaching a group of students the same thing in the same way is easy to dismiss, but it is still mainly what students will encounter after high school.

      Sheesh. A little depressing. What if they didn't encounter the same "tired old model" in college....

    2. Personalized learning

  6. Jun 2018
    1. The vast majority of studies on online versus face-to-face courses have concluded that purely online and hybrid courses are at least as effective as traditional face-to-face courses at facilitating learning of course content and/or in promoting student satisfaction.

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    1. he polling was nearly unani-mous that acquiring informationwas the easiest to do alone and thatthe other two goals seemed morecomplicated and would profit frompeer and instructor influence. This,then, led to a discussion of how topursue goals 2 and 3. These goalsare not achieved by reading orlistening to a lecturer—studentsmust actively do things in order tolearn. Students learn best (Davis,1993) when they take an active role:• When they discuss what theyare reading• When they practice what theyare learning• When they apply practices andideas
    2. Learner-Centered Classroom
    1. ou need to design structures that themselves are equal. If you do not, you end up replicating inequality, no matter how good your intention.

      Aren't we really meaning to be talking about equity in the classroom. Treating all learners equally usually doesn't lead to engaging all learners, it can certainly exclude some.

    2. Structuring Equality

    1. The Uncertain Future of OER

      I get it, but totally misses impact on teaching and learning; impact on student experience and success; impact on roles of teacher and learner in the classroom; students as creators and curators of information rather than passive consumers of it.

  8. May 2018
    1. “In short, they have no history of supporting the machine learning research community and instead they are viewed as part of the disreputable ecosystem of people hoping to hype machine learning to make money.”

      Whew. Hot.

    1. Fostering an accountable, inclusive and stimulating environment requires an instructor to be acutely sensitive to individual differences between learners and the emotional dimensions of learning. In an online environment, in the majority of cases, the instructors cannot see the students’ facial expressions, they cannot hear the tone of their voices or capture any unwritten reactions, thoughts or feelings; therefore, we should choose our words carefully, and be aware of how the message may be miscommunicated and misunderstood.

      So much of this depends on course design and faculty presence. Makes all the difference in the world. Frankly, I've been in face-to-face courses that felt far less inclusive than well-designed and facilitated online courses.

    1. “The fear of sharing has been drilled early on in our careers, and faculty members are so cognizant of being rated and ranked and looked over that it’s affecting our ability to share what we know [to the public].”

      tradition/culture of fear

    2. “OER are not typically counted toward research requirements, because they are seen as lacking the vetting process that comes with, for example, peer-reviewed articles.”
    3. “won’t help in securing tenure.”
    4. But staying on top of innovative teaching methods and adopting new course materials is not at the center of every faculty member’s work.

      old dog, new tricks

    1. UCF students who take at least 40 percent of their courses online complete their degrees an average of four months faster than other students, saving the students both time and money.
    1. Being able to wrap great OER content with technology that offers instructors the ability to personalize the learning experience, while also providing analytics, is key for OER to have a permanent place in learning.