Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 11, 2020
In the first installment on Monday, I explained how a fundamental failure to understand copyright makes the definition of OER in the new UNESCO recommendation nonsensical. In the second installment yesterday, I described how it appears that many in the OER community have taken their eye off the ball of student learning.
Edsurge
JUNE 22, 2017
Tuition increased 89 percent from 2002 to 2012, and textbook prices—which cost anywhere from $600 to $1300 today—rose 82 percent over the same period, according to U.S. And that’s been the driver behind nonprofit Achieving the Dream ’s (ATD) OER Degree Initiative , where 38 U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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Iterating Toward Openness
JUNE 28, 2021
If you didn’t make it all the way through my 2002 article linked above (and I wouldn’t blame you!), the Reusability Paradox can be stated in its simplest form as follows: There is an inverse relationship between the amount a student can learn from a resource and the reusability of the resource. Problem solved, right? : ).
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
In 2002, UNESCO followed those leads choosing to name the subset of open content that was useful for teaching and learning “open educational resources,” instead of a name with “free” in the title.). Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model. And a switch to OER would help publishers solve both of them.
Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 29, 2018
In mid-1998 I moved to Utah to attend graduate school at Brigham Young University, where I planned to continue thinking and learning about how the internet could improve education. My book The Instructional Use of Learning Objects was jointly published by AIT and AECT under the OPL. I was a music major from West Virginia. Freeriders!
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Instructional Designers, technologists, and online learning specialists are in high demand across all levels of education as it shifts online. He writes and speaks about academic librarianship, learning technologies, library leadership, textbook affordability, higher education, design thinking and user experience.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
AUGUST 13, 2011
Lopez is also the former President and CEO of NETg (1997-2002), a pioneer in providing e-Learning solutions to many of the largest corporations in the world, including Shell, IBM, AT&T, Honeywell and Motorola. Archipelago also produced nationally-broadcast television programming for PBS and The Cousteau Society.
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