Blogs on Improving Learning

Recently I’ve been thinking about the difference between an informational resource and an educational resource.

It was a striking moment of cognitive dissonance for me.

I was recently invited to participate in a Three Days of Focus conversation including the reusability paradox on the OE Global platform.

Helping people adopt evidence-based practices is notoriously difficult.

I absolutely love people who make the Herculean effort necessary to view well-known things from a distinctly different point of view.

There’s a really terrific conversation happening on the cc-openedu listserv.

My blog has changed names twice over the years.

Curt Bonk and I recently published a Preface for a special issue of ETR&D on Systematic Reviews of Research on Learning Environments and Technologies.

Dashboards in educational contexts are usually comprised of visualizations of educational data.

UPDATE: I borrowed the “community based” language in the title of this post from Martin’s blog, which reminded me of Yochai’s article and prompted this post.

Reposting this message I sent to the Learning Analytics mailing list earlier this morning.

This fall I’m once again teaching IPT 531: Introduction to Open Education at BYU (check it out - it’s designed so anyone can participate) and today I’m beginning a pilot run-through of the course redesign with a small number of students.

Long-time readers will be familiar with “learning objects” and the “reusability paradox.”

I submitted the following comment today on the Department of Education’s proposed rule “Open Textbook Pilot Program.”

It’s well established in the educational research literature that explicitly connecting new information to prior knowledge improves learning.

This week on the blog I’m serializing a talk I gave for CSU Channel Islands last week as part of their Open Education Week festivities.

This week on the blog I’m serializing a talk I gave for CSU Channel Islands last week as part of their Open Education Week festivities.

This week on the blog I’m serializing a talk I gave for CSU Channel Islands last week as part of their Open Education Week festivities.

Last October Doc Searls gave the Ostrom Memorial Lecture for the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University.

Last week I promised I would write a few posts about reducing friction with regard to OER.

I’m going to write a post or three about some of the friction that exists around using OER.

Despite my best efforts, I spent much of the recent holiday break thinking about the eviscerated definition of OER in the final version of the UNESCO OER Recommendation.

Last year I created an un-styled, (hopefully) easy-to-reuse slide deck about Creative Commons, the 5Rs, and OER.

I suppose it’s time for end of year reflections.

The tl;dr I recently wrote a brief essay about the wonderful new UNESCO OER Recommendation.

I’m leaving this post online solely for historical / archive purposes.

Preface Here’s a trivia question for you: which American organization has produced the largest number of open textbooks?

I read an article back in June (reference below) that prompted some memories and catalyzed some additional thoughts.

[caption id=“attachment_6160” align=“aligncenter” width=“800”] Cropped photo by Ameer Basheer on Unsplash[/caption] I think Michael Feldstein is directionally correct in his analysis of what has been happening to “open education” for the past several year…

After two amazing keynotes at #OpenEd19 this morning, I read the following statement to conference attendees: In 2003 I invited a small group of about forty people interested in open content and open courseware to Logan, Utah.

For the first decade of the modern open education movement (1998 - 2007), the distinguishing feature of our work - the thing we cared most about and talked most about - was the open licensing we applied to educational materials.

It’s a world of laughter A world of tears It’s a world of hopes And a world of fears There’s so much that we share That it’s time we’re aware It’s a long game after all.

There’s much to learn from history.

You should read this post by Cable Green before proceeding below.

Open Up Resources posted a short article yesterday expressing their frustration that people are violating the terms of the CC BY license under which they make their work available.

The most recent issue of IRRODL included an article titled Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance: A Case Study, by Juan I.

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space.

I was a music major as an undergraduate.

Over the last 24 hours there’s been a short Twitter thread about whether or not materials released under a CC license with the NC condition can be used in a college classroom safely.

This post is rather long.

Maha has written a brief but powerful post about how people’s contributions can go unacknowledged.

At the OpenEd Conference in 2013, Nicole Allen and I challenged the OER community to save students one billion dollars.

At OpenEd18 I gave a presentation titled “Questioning the OER Orthodoxy: Is the Commons the Right Metaphor for our Work?”

The Wordpress REST API is awesome.

Is open a means to an end, or is open its own end?

UPDATE: It’s been brought to my attention that some readers of my blog read this post as a criticism of Creative Commons and its licenses.

Recently I’ve been doing both more thinking and more roll-up-your-sleeves working on continuous improvement of OER.

As a general rule, I don’t believe that colleges and universities understand why students are willing to go tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt to attend them.

Matt Crosslin has posted a thoughtful response to our RISE article from last year.

Yesterday, Phil Hill wrote about OpenStax’s new method for calculating the savings students see when their faculty adopt OER. https://mfeldstein.com/welcome-change-openstax-using-more-accurate-data-on-student-textbook-expenditures/ His article highlights…