In all the many discussions about the technological advancements in courseware, from learning analytics to adaptive learning, we are missing the invisible yet critical and ubiquitous revolution in content design that makes all the technological advances possible.
Curricular-Materials
This category includes digital curricular materials, including adaptive learning, assessments, OER, etc., as well as the vendors who sell them.
Pearson’s Born-Digital Move and Frequency of Updates
Pearson is going digital first and updating its editions more frequently. According to the higher ed press, frequent updates to a software product is now a bad thing.
OER Survey and Adoption Growth: It pays to check source material
Chronicle coverage of BSRG OER survey confuses key data on OER adoption. #informationliteracy
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.
Some Thoughts on OER
Open licenses, open scholarship, open hearts, and open wounds.
Top Hat’s OER Announcement: Doubling down on faculty engagement
Top Hat further expands, or subdivides the OER movement; and the move doubles down on the company’s bet on faculty engagement
Short eLiterate Course on Analytics and Adaptive Learning
We’ve released a new short course of six animated explainers that introduce educators to basic concepts related to learning analytics and adaptive learning.