Preparing Students to Lose Their Jobs
Longevity + change rates = lifelong learning expertise to agility
Preparing Students to Lose Their Jobs
Longevity + change rates = lifelong learning expertise to agility
deemed taxable income
taxable income
Consciousness Creates Reality
From Learner Centered to Learner Experience (LX)
Supporting DoOO
Yavapai College offers free tuition for recent GED recipients
The Open Faculty Patchbook
The Open Faculty Patchbook: An OER on Pedagogy
Higher education is a public good we all embrace and we promote. That cannot be said enough.”
Amen!
Research universities need to do a better job of explaining to the public the impact and importance of research, and the role it plays improving lives
How about not just research unis.?
The Pedagogy of Boredom
Seventeen instructors offer guidance for colleagues teaching an online course for the first time
Boosting Faculty Buy-In for Online Learning
Call for Proposals: PSU Library Seeks Faculty to Author Open Textbooks
OER Playbook
Project Connect is a non-profit working to map every school in the world. Our goal is to provide real-time data assessing the quality of each school’s Internet connectivity, eventually creating an observable metric of society’s progress towards enabling educational access and opportunity for every student on Earth.
Once students understand their roles as knowledge producers in the classroom, they can apply those reflections to other coursework and throughout their careers
Could the data lead colleges to rethink how they operate to serve students?
Hold the player’s hand too much and she disengages out of boredom. Ask too much of her too soon and she quits in frustration.
Thinking how this relates to course design...
“It has contributed to the abandonment of the notion of higher education as a public good in favor of it being viewed as a private commodity.”
“I think the biggest challenge [with] higher education today is the growing economic and racial segregation,” Pasquerella said.
damn
Whatever Happened To MOOCs?
More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access
User Experience Design
On August 24, 2016 Reveal Digital announced that they were temporarily removing access to the OOB content. The main reason they gave was took this collection down citing minors access to pornography, the privacy concerns I raised and the need to consult with community.
I wonder what the implications are for sites who maintain copies of old sites.
OER You Not Inspired?
Deleting tweets (non-techie starts her personal information environmentalism journey–with lots of help)
Tuition and Fees Aren’t Enough to Cover College Expenses
This database is a searchable resource of academic studies on the learning outcomes of online and/or hybrid education in comparison to face-to-face environments.
Critically Evaluating Digital Tools
“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
the Big Ideas classroom mirrors the interdisciplinary research teams that exist across campus—and, importantly, the workplace of the future.
“The role of the teacher is not to deposit bits and bytes of knowledge into students. Rather, teachers must recognize their role as one as one of mentor, even peer, on the journey towards greater justice in society,” the pair write.
I see someone who is trying to destroy open pedagogy, by destroying communities and replacing them with companies.
The difference arises essentially because I consider learning and pedagogy to be non-commercial enterprises.
and there it is...
UH OER Training
Franklin also identifies holistic technology as “…associated with the notion of craft” and involving decisions that can only be made while the work is in process, by the artisan themselves.
holistic, in which the skilled crafts-person could make almost every tool needed, and had much creative control over the entire process, and prescriptive, in which the control is shifted to a hierarchy of managers, and the human is part of a larger machinery. It is the latter meaning of technology that we probably most often encounter, and in my estimation, one that needs to be balanced with the holistic meaning.
holistic vs. prescriptive
Online Learning Designer
The Campus Computing Survey
instructors are more likely to work to meet deadlines and goals when they know they’re being judged alongside a team of their peers.
Trial and Error: Online Course Development, Better Together
In addition, the courses are more varied and faculty driven than they were before
They wanted to give faculty members a more active role in creating courses, speed up the process and fully utilize instructional designers.
active role. ownership.
Instructional designers had also developed a reputation on campus for completing repetitive tasks that instructors preferred not to tackle, such as creating folders in the learning management system and printing documents. Bond describes the dynamic as a “conversionist mentality: here's my stuff, put it online.”
converisonist mentality
“Every course looked like every other course, regardless of the discipline,”
“free” as in “free and unfettered markets”
My blossoming hope is that we can use some of the tools and rhetoric of open to build a public response to the crisis in American public higher education. OER can help us conceive of how the public can generate the materials it needs to support its education, and can help us center access as a key component of any equitable learning environment.
How can or will institutions better internally support public education in ways that improve access and equity VS. outsourcing personnel, services, platforms, etc. which further adds to the problematic privatization issue.
OER: Bigger Than Affordability
I am most interested to see how the concepts around working open can help us find a way to talk about the value -- in particular the nonmarket social value -- of public higher education, and imagine a sustainable future for our public institutions.
non-market social value
If OER is appealing because they can help make knowledge more accessible, then we must care about the myriad issues -- from child care to transportation -- that prevent our potential students from even coming to our classrooms in the first place.
Broader concept of access to education.
two types of learning in a professional development context; transactional and transformational
instructional designers and academic research
Should Online Instructors Be Online Students?
To bridge the digital divide is to figure out ways to do things that make it smart for all Kansas City citizens.”
Digital Assignment Student Beta Testers
Students beta-testing instructors assignments
a study by the Connecticut Board of Governors for Higher Education published in 2006 found that only 58 percent of Connecticut state schools’ faculty knew how much the books they selected for their classes cost.
Faculty aren't aware or don't care about textbook expenses. I think this is slowly changing for the better, but 58% is pretty bad.
Is Scholarly Knowledge Good for the Public?
Debunking the top myths about OER in North American higher education
Competing Models Among OPM Providers
Now every full- and part-time instructor is required to participate in the university’s formal virtual faculty academy before teaching online.
Course Evaluations
Best Practices for Administrative Evaluation of Online Faculty
A Peer Review Guide for Online Courses at Penn State
Online Course Design Evaluation
Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses
While increasing numbers of people are online with mobile devices, the digital divide has widened.
OER repackaging that Cengage is engaging
I talk a little about openwrapping here: http://scottrobison.net/openeducation/a-not-so-direct-opened17-reflection-openwrapping/
Memory Machines and Collective Memory: How We Remember the History of the Future of Technological Change
Most of today's educational technology depends on users having Internet access. Students, staff, and faculty must be online in order to participate in learning management systems, digital tests, student information systems, licensed databases, and the entire web. They not only must be reliably online but also need to do so through high-speed connectivity. The digitally networked world is increasingly predicated on users having broadband access.
This textbook innovation will save your college student a lot of money
Providing students with multiple means of perceiving, comprehending, and expressing their learning not only allows for students to engage with the material in a way that most benefits them
Accessibility vs. Accommodation... Building accessible courses helps ALL students, regardless of their status of ability, as opposed to accommodating to meet the needs of one student.
Helpful overview of UDL.
Questions on Quality of Online Learning
Openwashing
On tuition, college debt and effect on real estate market
They know words like constructivism and problem-based learning, but they have never heard of open pedagogy. They know service learning and communities of practice, but they don’t know how to get started in the digital space to make that work connect to others. They don’t know what a domain is but they know it’s a real pain in the ass when you lose access to your teaching materials. They have adopted an Open course, but they haven’t edited anything yet and they have no idea why that matters so much to some people. They know Reading, Writing, and ‘Rithmetic, but they may not know the 5Rs. They don’t care about the theories and ideas I care about. What you may care about.
The common missing link: institutional support of professional staff to help instructors navigate these water. Why this isn't a priority is mind blowing. The evidence of the impact on students is clearly there, but most of the work to enact this change is falling on contingent labor (primarily at CCs).
I’ve been to 67 schools in one year.
Holy eff.
I had the privilege of having breakfast with that student panel, and they were even more lovely before they got up on stage.
Absolutely one of the highlights of #opened17!
A New Open Ed Experiment
grant full voting rights to student trustee
more emphasis should be on appointing people that know how to run a nonprofit or government organization that ensures a focus on educational integrity.
Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
"They said it's coming any day now, but they've been saying that for a couple weeks now," said James Martello, a freshman at UAlbany who applied to the four-year state school because of the scholarship. "We already paid the bill, so I assume we'll get it refunded in some way or another."
seems a little disconcerting...
Using Active Learning Techniques in Large Classes
Conference on Teaching Large Classes
Learning Design for Innovation
Using Big Data to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates
face an urgent need to increase access and success when it comes to education
#3: Online learning is “less than.”
Climate-based Web Literacy Activity
Accessibility Support
Free tuition among new OSAP updates
Using Design-Based Research in Higher Education Innovation
The Environmental Cost of Misinformation: Why the Recommendation to Use Elevated Temperatures for Handwashing is Problematic.
OpenMed Course
CC Licensing Guide
Newfield’s The Great Mistake: The Big Picture (2)
Christopher Newfield’s The Great Mistake—Part One: The Big Picture
Destroying Public Education
A survey by e-textbook provider VitalSource has found that 50 percent of students who delayed buying textbooks because of high prices saw their grades suffer as a result.
The Great LMS Review Adventure
Analysis of LMS Categories of Function
reTHINK PSU
About Provost's Challenge
Southern New Hampshire University Selects D2L’s Brightspace as Its New Learning Management System
Here are the major product announcements / new functionality as of this summer:
D2L product announcements
The proportions of LMS and SIS are not necessarily representative of market share. We simply took a subset of institutions that had both a SIS and a LMS system listed in our database.
Globally, Instructure’s market share is much smaller as shown in our recent analysis
LMS market share
“a higher education professional who is engaged in course design and development and who provides faculty support to aid in the adoption of academic technologies and effective teaching strategies across face-to-face, blended and online modalities.”
ID definition
If it is public money, it should be public code as well.
Right?!?
Open Source and the NGDLE
Scaling Solutions to Higher Education’s Biggest Challenges
Getting Started with Copyright, Fair Use, The Public Domain, and Creative Commons
19INSIDE HIGHER ED2016 SURVEY OF FACULTY ATTITUDES ON TECHNOLOGYONLINE EDUCATION QUALITY
Quality of online courses
Getting Students to “Own” Their Education
Higher education has atomized knowledge by dividing it into disciplines, subdisciplines, and sub-subdisciplines — breaking it up into smaller and smaller unconnected fragments of academic specialization, even as the world looks to colleges for help in integrating and synthesizing the exponential increases in information brought about by technological advances
Conundrum around increasing specializations and specialized generalists.
Evelyn: Never get on the bad side of small minded people who have a little power.
How To Participate In Digipo
Becoming Interdisciplinary
Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment
News Release: Rice University-based OpenStax partners with UK Open Textbooks
experience the clusters model of learning outside the traditional classroom.
textbook prices vs. consumer prices
the 2016 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology.
Library Publications
List of OER textbooks Search for Open Educational Resource 2017 Textbook List at library site
The Liminal Role of Instructional Designers
If the revolutionary part of social media lies in its potential to help marginalized people find a community & to organize, then we need to teach kids where and how to look.
Yes!
To have them look at their information environments not as vehicles of just self-expression, but as ways to transcend their own prejudices. To read and listen much much more than we speak. And to see what is needed through the lens of privilege – teaching the beauty of deference to the students with self-confidence and social capital, while teaching marginalized students to find communities that can provide them with the self-confidence they need.
Golden, Holden!
Cluster Curriculum is General Education
Four Tools of Clusters
The thing is, I struggle with self-doubt quite a bit. And the way you conquer self-doubt is to convince yourself that you do belong in the center of the story, that you’ve earned what you’ve got, and in fact you should strive for more. If you walk around thinking that everything you have is illegitimate and that you are not central to some meaningful narrative you’ll never find the energy to make positive change. That doesn’t help anyone. It gets worse: as a male raised in this patriarchal society, that sense of displacement from the center of the narrative can quickly turn inward and gnaw at you. It's a cancer. Heck, even deferring to the expertise of others can feel like failure. So how do privileged men find a new sort of manhood, that can be powerful and driven without being exclusionary? How do I, as a white male, make my peace with deference to others, with being told, occasionally, what to do by people who know better? With stepping aside? With being a bit player in a story where we are sure we could get the lead role?
Couldn't agree more. Support group, please. At wits end.
Activity: Choose the Best Source of the Top Google Results
What’s social media for?
Digital Sanctuary
The magic is in you. “I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing.”
Submission Form for Student Work
waiver form allowing uni to use students' work
Why not just use CC license?
It intentionally values what is being brought to a design conversation (a user’s experiences, previous design work, etc) rather than trying to always disrupt, destroy, or replace what was previously created
IntegratIng InterdIscIplInarIty
Purpose of Online Teaching Readiness Assessment
What many of these individuals likely mean when they call higher education a public good is that higher education has positive externalities.
public good vs. positive externalities
To qualify as a public good, a good must be both nonexcludable and nonrivalrous
Trend Watch 2017: Which IT Trends Is Higher Education Responding To?
Can an 'Open' Math Curriculum Compete With Commercial Publishers?
OER and the Course Throughput Rate
Incentives and barriers to OER adoption: A qualitative analysis of faculty perceptions
Drones
ONLINE COLLEGE STUDENTS 2017
InstructureCon 2017: Culture as a competitive weapon
Online Education Handbook
Other Nations with Highest Numbers of Students in US Colleges and Universities
EPortfolio (Digital Portfolio) Rubric
Finding Our Footing for OER Training: Information and Digital Literacies
Most sporting goods stores or any CO2 gas provider will fill these paintball cylinders for less than $5 (instead of the $25-30 exchange cost with Sodastream)
Find a Speaker For Your Open Event
People To Pay Attention To
What Matters to You in Counting Distance Education Activities?
We haven’t really trained people to do that
This is the kicker...
2016 Student Textbookand Course Materials
How do I help students engage productively in active learning classrooms?
Report: Students Spending Less on Course Materials
Without question, there is still value in reducing learning data to symbols for ease and speed of interpretation.
Annie Dillard's Classic Essay: 'Total Eclipse'
Purpose and Pedagogy: A Conceptual Model for anePortfolio
ePortfolio Pedagogy
What Difference Does ePortfolio Make?
This is a tool to help you build attributions. Click the About box to learn more. As you fill out the form, the app automatically generates the attribution for you.
Is this just-in-time support or something else?
For me, the majority of it is this. Not last second, frantic JIT, but "I want/need support at the time I will actually use what you help me understand, build, use, plan, etc."
And reflection is the key to integrative ePortfolio pedagogy and practice. In her essay, “Reflection and Electronic Portfolios: Inventing the Self and Reinventing the University,” Kathleen Blake Yancey defines reflection as the centerpiece of powerful ePortfolio learning.iiReflective pedagogy transforms ePortfolio from a push-button technology into an engaging process of connection, integrating academic learning, life experience, and profound processes of personal growth
so interesting how this is emerging from the use of a tool
Catalyst for LearningePortfolio Resources and Researchhttp://www.c2l.mcnrc.org
Reflective and Social Pedagogies to Advance Integrative ePortfolio Learning
Current UBC Learning Technology Ecosystem Snapshot, as viewed by LT Users
Aiding the Writing-Stalled Professor
Pacific Northwest OER Directory
people, resources, communication
Breaking free: To save students money, colleges are looking to the Open Educational Resources movement
University of Southern New Hampshire's academic steering technology committee
Edit: University System of New Hampshire's Academic Technology Steering Committee
SAMUEL TENENBAUMCarl R. Rogers and Non-Directive Teaching
A Googler's Would-Be Manifesto Reveals Tech's Rotten Core
Basic Needs Security and the Syllabus
which is a new term for me
new for me too. glad i'm not alone! :)
they may actually restrict thesubsequent educational outcomes.
limit students' pursuing/exploring. emerging learning outcomes.
he ‘preciseterms’ are only precise if interpreted by means of the background under-standing and experience. Without this they are largely vacuous.
need background to understand
220The trouble withlearningoutcomes
COMMON GOOD FORECASTER™
DesigningEffectiveMultimediaforPhysicsEducation
this acquisition will position Elsevier as an increasingly dominant player in preprints, continuing its march to adopt and coopt open access.
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