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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

This article started out with my being bothered by the fact that ‘OER adoption reliably saves students money but does not reliably improve their outcomes.’ ’ For many years OER advocates have told faculty, “When you adopt OER your students save money and get the same or better outcomes!”

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Next Week's "Sustainability in Libraries" Mini-Conference and Schedule #library20 #sustainabilityinlibraries

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This mini-conference will center on the concept of "Sustainable Thinking" which aligns the core values of libraries with the "Triple Bottom Line" definition of sustainability--i.e. She is a co-editor of the upcoming book, Sustainability in Libraries, slated for publication in 2021 by ALA Editions.

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"Sustainability in Libraries" - Accepted Sessions Announced for Library 2.0 Mini-Conference #library20 #sustainabilityinlibraries

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This mini-conference will center on the concept of "Sustainable Thinking" which aligns the core values of libraries with the "Triple Bottom Line" definition of sustainability--i.e. She is a co-editor of the upcoming book, Sustainability in Libraries, slated for publication in 2021 by ALA Editions.

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Final Call - Wednesday's "Sustainability in Libraries" Mini-Conference and Schedule #library20 #sustainabilityinlibraries

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This mini-conference will center on the concept of "Sustainable Thinking" which aligns the core values of libraries with the "Triple Bottom Line" definition of sustainability--i.e. She is a co-editor of the upcoming book, Sustainability in Libraries, slated for publication in 2021 by ALA Editions.

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AI, Instructional Design, and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

And, because you’ve got to play the hits, let’s look at what their impact will be on OER as well. Definitions and Examples That’s not quite right, but it’s far faster to feed a prompt into ChatGPT and then edit the output to make it accurate than it would be to write that from scratch.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Definitely no one I trust more on this topic, no siree. Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “About That Cengage OER Survey.” Anyway, via Venture Beat : “Juniper Research: VR hardware market will hit $50 billion by 2021.” ” Spoiler alert: not enough access to data.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Campus Technology : “ IoT to Represent More Than Half of Connected Device Landscape by 2021.” For top students, taking an online course didn’t definitively have a negative effect on a student’s grade point average. ” “​ OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students.