Coursera for Schools tells us a lot about the failure of MOOCs and what comes after.
Curricular-Materials
This category includes digital curricular materials, including adaptive learning, assessments, OER, etc., as well as the vendors who sell them.
Content as an Instrument of Inquiry
Content design isn’t just valuable for more effective learning. It’s specifically valuable for more effective learning about teaching.
The Affordances of Content Design
Content is infrastructure. David Wiley I opened my first post in this series with a statement about courseware and content design: An unbelievable number of words have been written about the technology affordances of courseware—progress indicators, nudges, analytics, adaptive algorithms, and so on. But what seems to have gone completely unnoticed in all this analysis […]
The Content Revolution
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.
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.