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Reflections on Open Education and the Path Forward
There’s been a lot of discussion about open textbooks, efficacy research, and student cost savings in the wake of this year’s #OpenEd15. The general theme of the conversation has been a concern that a...
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Books I Read in 2015
Martin’s post has inspired me to share the books I read in 2015, though I have not made the time to produce useless charts like he did. I must say that, after staying healthy, the biggest benefit of...
View ArticleA Biological Bloom’s Taxonomy
Last week I read a really incredible paper published as OA in Nature titled, The global landscape of cognition: hierarchical aggregation as an organizational principle of human cortical networks and...
View ArticleThe Consensus Around “Open”
Yesterday EdSurge published an opinion piece by Stephen Laster, the Chief Digital Officer at McGraw-Hill Education, titled The Future of Education Isn’t Free. It’s Open. The article makes a strong...
View ArticleA Little Thought Experiment
Suppose a faculty member decides she wants to provide some positive reinforcement to students in her class next semester. She decides that each time a student scores 80% or higher on an exam, she’ll...
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Slow or Sophisticated? Squandered or Sustainable?
There’s an AP story about open textbooks making the rounds in a variety of outlets over the last few days (e.g., ABC News). The story includes some quotes from David Anderson, executive director for...
View ArticleFrom One to Many: OER-based Degree Programs
Several years ago I was speaking about OER at a conference in Virginia. There was a great feeling in the room, and though I hadn’t planned to speak about the topic, I felt prompted to end my remarks by...
View ArticleWho Pays for Supplemental Materials?
One of the reasons faculty can be slow to switch from commercial textbooks to OER is a perceived lack of open supplemental materials like powerpoint presentations, lab books, and test banks. There are...
View ArticleMusings on the Economics of Commercial and Open Educational Resources
I have a chapter about open educational resources that will be appearing in a book on trends and issues in instructional design and technology later this year. The chapter will be openly licensed and...
View ArticleNotes on Open Pedagogy
Mary and Amanda wrote a great post yesterday about BCCampus’ upcoming plans around open pedagogy. It reminded me that I meant to post the notes I developed for my workshop on open pedagogy at the...
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