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.
Bits & Bytes
"Bits and Bytes" includes recommended reading on other sites, editorial and web site updates, and other ephemera.
Revisiting 2012 Post on Barriers That MOOCs Would Face
Saying “I told you so” can be so petty. But I’ll get over it this time – MOOCs aren’t magical after all, and reality continues to intrude.
Disclosure Update
e-Literate is no longer receiving funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Empirical Educator Project Webinar on Monday
We’re moderating a webinar about the Empirical Educator Project hosted by ELI on Monday, April 9th at 1 PT ET.
If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try To Be An OPM: Conversion of for-profits and MOOCs
Purdue/ Kaplan, Grand Canyon, Ashford U all going “nonprofit”, Coursera focuses on degrees – the common theme of recent for-profit and MOOC news? The OPM market.
Personalized Learning: What It Really Is and Why It Really Matters
Re-post of our 2016 article from EDUCAUSE Review framing personalized learning as family of teaching practices that are intended to help reach students in the metaphorical back row.
An Alternative to the Engineering Model of Personalized Learning
Description in EdWeek about the ‘engineering model’ of personalized learning shows one side of a battle, and the antidote is improving teaching practices