California is supporting the research-backed practice of emergency financial support, which is good. But they don’t appear to be approaching it in a research-minded way, which is bad.
Policy
"Policy" covers legislation and regulation that impact technology enabled education initiatives.
The Cengage-MHE Merger and Data Danger
PIRG’s SPARC group filed a brief with the Department of Justice opposing the merger between Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education. The section on data danger is worth a close read.
Flawed AEI Report on Online Education: The good, the bad, and the ugly
At what point does a theme become a schtick? These ‘deeply flawed’ reports on online education are pushing towards the latter.
EEP News: Carnegie Mellon and Duke Lower Barriers to Conducting Educational Research
I’m thrilled to announce our first Empirical Educator Project contribution. From the press release: Carnegie Mellon University and Duke University have shared newly available free tools that will significantly lower the barriers to conducting ethical educational research. The two universities contributed the tools through e-Literate’s Empirical Educator Project (EEP), an effort to promote broader adoption […]
Deeply Flawed GMU Report on Online Education Asks Good Questions But Provides Misguided Analysis
Unlike Hoxby report, new GMU study of online education asks good questions and describes research accurately (for the most part), but like past report this one is also deeply flawed and causes more harm than good.
Welcome Change: OpenStax using more accurate data on student textbook expenditures
How do you save students money that they weren’t already spending? You can’t, and OpenStax adjusts their savings data in a welcome move in the OER community.
Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day
Disastrous senate bill in Hawai’i that would have mandated usage of OER for all UH courses is changed in committee hearings