Iterating Toward Openness
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Recently I’ve been doing both more thinking and more roll-up-your-sleeves working on continuous improvement of OER. And this process of making OER more effective every semester – also known as “continuous improvement” – is where we see some of the most exciting opportunities to collaborate with faculty.
IT Bill
JULY 13, 2018
The reason sports teams switch sides at half-time has to do with ensuring both teams have an equal advantage in the event one side of the field has a higher slope than the other, or one team maybe faces the sun, or runs against the wind, and so on. The study considered student income, ethnicity, gender, and full vs part-time status.
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Edsurge
JULY 15, 2019
These changes usually incorporate new findings in a field of study, or reflect recent events. billion in revenue from higher ed courseware sales in 2018 came from digital, and that digital rental sales grew by 25 percent over 2017. But each new edition comes with a higher sticker price. It doesn’t matter what a publisher wants to sell.
Edsurge
JANUARY 22, 2020
One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018. That’s because the deal coincides with another momentous event on the company’s horizon—one that Ben-Naim says his team and customers have been preparing for. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. million in 2018.
Edsurge
JANUARY 9, 2018
One crucial part of the decision is out of the students’ hands, of course, since it is the professor who decides what textbook or material to assign—or whether to skip commercial textbooks altogether and assign a free or low-cost open educational resource, or OER. a semester. I thought it was just as helpful as any other textbook.”
Edsurge
DECEMBER 22, 2017
Looking ahead to 2018, here are three predictions: First, we will probably see more work on the many ways automation (AI, robotics, etc.) Lastly, I forecast continued incremental growth of open educational resources (OER) and open access in scholarly publication. Resistance to deportation enforcement could galvanize or divide campuses.
ProfHacker
APRIL 26, 2017
The conference may be over, but there have been several virtual events continuing the conversation, such as the Virtually Connecting Missed Conversation Towards Openness , led by Christian Friedrich and Kate Green and an OpenEdSIG follow-up webinar organized by Teresa MacKinnon. Here is more of what I look forward to in 2017/2018.
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