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Tina Ulrich

Call for Reviewers | BCcampus OpenEd Resources - 0 views

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  • Tina Ulrich on 24 Jul 14
     
    BC Open Textbook Project asking for faculty to review available open textbooks.
Tina Ulrich

College Open Textbooks - Who are we? - 2 views

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  • Tina Ulrich on 21 Jan 14
     
    29 colleges working together to train faculty in using open textbooks and create an easy-to-use repository. Peer reviews textbooks for community colleges.
Tina Ulrich

No reservations - 1 views

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  • For students, a textbook reserve system is an encouragement not to buy textbooks
  • At the root of the textbook problem is an in unfair economic model in which end consumers (students) must purchase textbooks chosen for them by intermediaries (instructors) who are insulated from textbook costs
  • instructors who, unfortunately and perversely, have been disincentivized from taking serious, concerted action about textbook costs thanks, in part, to the existence of textbook reserve systems. No need for an instructor to worry about students’ ability to afford textbooks when, “There’s a copy in the library.” Let them eat cake.
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  • Use the power of academic promotion and tenure to reward academic colleagues who invest time, intellect, and effort into writing, editing, and peer reviewing open-access textbooks rather than writing textbooks on behalf of for-profit publishers.
  • Take advantage of the growing number of library-based programs that provide grants to instructors who adopt open-access course texts.
  • Make use of the growing corpus of open-access, peer-reviewed course materials
  • Fully exercise the right of fair use to make as much course material as possible digitally available to students via course-management or library systems.
  • Quit assigning over-priced textbooks,
  • Tina Ulrich on 05 Jun 15
     
    Textbooks on reserve programs are counter-productive.
Tina Ulrich

The Review Project - 1 views

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OER research john.hilton.iii Open.Education.Group

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  • Tina Ulrich on 13 Jan 16
     
    Summary of all research on OER impacts to date.
Joelle Hannert

Opening up education through innovation | Open Education Europa - 0 views

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  • Joelle Hannert on 21 Sep 15
     
    Reviewed in Choice, August 2015: Open Education Europa, from the European Commission. http://openeducationeuropa.eu/ [Visited May'15] Open Education Europa offers a single gateway to more than 170 MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) offerings, nearly 800 courses, and a wealth of freely accessible educational resources in the European Union. The project grew out of the EU-supported Opening up Education Initiative calling for more innovative teaching, new technologies, and open-access learning options for EU citizens. Information is delivered in a simple, easy-to-use manner via the content areas displayed across the tops of pages and a giant search bar below the display; advanced searching reveals the website's total number of results under each filter type. Though the main content of the site is in English, the search bar and browsing buttons can be set to the languages of the EU via a drop-down menu. Browsing through content is simple, with filters set to refine by content type (e.g., MOOCs, courses, articles, events) and help differentiate areas of study by subject or level of materials, language, and special features of the materials (e.g., video lectures, forum, assessment tools). There is also an option to filter content that requires prerequisite courses or experience. The search results are set out much like an online-shopping site-sortable by posting date, alphabetically by title, or relevance. Returns can be hit-or-miss, however, with some filters failing to restrict specific content, e.g., retrieving Spanish and German materials even after setting the English-language filter or returning the same results in different languages. Though the browsing and search algorithms might require a bit more fine-tuning, the creators have designed a handy aggregator that should help increase access to new and innovative educational content for all EU citizens. Open Education Europa is also a convenient way for US citizens, students, or faculty to discover
Tina Ulrich

2 Senators Offer Bill Promoting Open-Access Textbooks - Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chro... - 1 views

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  • A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday would encourage the creation of free online textbooks by offering grants for pilot projects that produce high-quality open-access textbooks, especially for courses with large enrollments.
  • Grant money would also be available to help faculty members find and review such textbooks, as well as to conduct research on how well open-access textbooks meet students’ and faculty members’ needs.
  • Affordable College Textbook Act, was introduced by two Democratic senators, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois and Al Franken of Minnesota.
Tina Ulrich

2 Senators Offer Bill Promoting Open-Access Textbooks - Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chro... - 0 views

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  • encourage the creation of free online textbooks by offering grants for pilot projects that produce high-quality open-access textbooks, especially for courses with large enrollments.
  • Grant money would also be available to help faculty members find and review such textbooks
Tina Ulrich

Reflections on Open Education and the Path Forward - 1 views

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  • We need to tell the OER story in a wide range of ways. Most importantly, we have to know who we’re talking to and what language they speak. For some audiences, we will need to speak the language of experimental design and quantitative efficacy studies published in peer reviewed outlets. For others, we will need to use the language of anecdotes combined with first hand student accounts. Legislators and administrators will care about funding, costs, and parent and student attitudes. Faculty will care about efficacy and academic freedom. Students will care about costs, grades, and time to graduation. As a community we must be conversant in these different languages so that the stories we tell are both comprehensible and compelling.
  • I cannot stress this point enough – telling the OER story in terms that speak to us personally will only work on those rare occasions when we’re speaking to other people just like us. We can only create recognition of the value of OER by telling the OER story in terms of the values of our immediate audience.
  • Who controls the incentive architectures for faculty and students? How might we nudge them toward adjusting incentives to become supportive of OER-related work? Once they have recognized the value of OER, we need to provide them with models for the kinds of incentives they might include in their broader incentive architectures.
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  • My greatest fear regarding this work – the greatest risk to all of our efforts – is the constant, never-ending drumbeat of those working to dilute the concept of “open” into merely “free” or “affordable.”
  • If we hope to facilitate internet-like levels of innovation in education, experimentation must be permissionless.
  • Joelle Hannert on 09 Dec 15
     
    Great article, and a good reminder! It's easy just to talk about OER in terms of cost.
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