This is part 2 of my post #opened15 brain dump on the role of open textbooks in higher education, prompted by many discussions about textbooks in the wake of #opened15. In my first post, I touched on the role that open textbooks can play in bringing new people into the open community. This one is […]
The OER Research Hub has published a new study in OpenPraxis looking at the impact of OER on teaching & learning practice. The Hub has been working with numerous OER and open education projects around the world, gathering data clustered around their 11 hypothesis, and this report pulls data from 15 open projects, including the […]
If there is one way to kill technology generativity, lock the technology up to such an extent that you can’t even repair it, let alone hack at it to do something new and innovative. I’ve written about generativity before (in the context of open textbooks). Briefly, generativity is the capacity a system has to be […]
This is post 1 of a 2 part #opened15 brain dump about open textbooks (part 2 here). I’m post-conference OpenEd15 metaphorically hungover, so forgive me if this goes astray or meanders. Textbooks. Ugh. Who needs them. The one hazard of organizing a conference is that you don’t actually get to attend a number of sessions, […]
We’re just a few days away from the kickoff to the 2015 Open Education conference in Vancouver, Nov 18-20. The plans have all been planned and all that is left is the doing. If you are not coming to Vancouver next week, we still have opportunities for you to participate. First, the conference Twitter hashtag […]
Grant Potter and Brian Lamb have been cooking up some open edtech goodness. Earlier this week, Grant sent me a tweet with a link to a project that he and Brian have been working on, and it is exactly in line with my musings lately around an open web edtech infrastructure. What Grant and Brian […]
