Yesterday I wrote a post on the 20 Million Minds blog about Martin Weller’s new book The Battle for Open: How openness won and why it doesn’t feel like victory. Exploring different aspects of open in higher education – open access, MOOCs, open education resources and open scholarship – Weller shows how far the concept of openness […]
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Three Makes a Movement: Branson creates youth panel for student voice in ed tech
Based on my involvement in the Evolve conference sponsored by the 20 Million Minds Foundation, held in January, I wrote a series of posts covering the discussions around online education and educational technology. The three main posts: Evolve Conference Analysis: Move Past Status Quo and Focus on Student Success Evolve Analysis: Student Success in Online Requires […]
Links to External Articles and Interviews
Last week I was off the grid (not just lack of Internet but also lack of electricity), but thanks to publishing cycles I managed to stay artificially productive: two blog posts and one interview for an article. Post at 20MM on Textbook Preference Report: It’s Difficult to Prefer What You Can’t Access Last week brought […]
The Right to Educational Access Paper, Part IV
Update: This paper can be found at the 20MM site and has also been broken into four separate posts on e-Literate: Part I: Introduction & Current Initiatives from Three Systems Part II: Three Basic Approaches Part III: Focus on Student Rights and Perspectives & Metrics to Collect Part IV: Recommendations Recommendations The scope of this position paper is […]
The Right to Educational Access Paper, Part III
Update: This paper can be found at the 20MM site and has also been broken into four separate posts on e-Literate: Part I: Introduction & Current Initiatives from Three Systems Part II: Three Basic Approaches Part III: Focus on Student Rights and Perspectives & Metrics to Collect Part IV: Recommendations Focus on Student Rights and Perspectives Given these […]
The Right to Educational Access Paper, Part II
Update: This paper can be found at the 20MM site and has also been broken into four separate posts on e-Literate: Part I: Introduction & Current Initiatives from Three Systems Part II: Three Basic Approaches Part III: Focus on Student Rights and Perspectives & Metrics to Collect Part IV: Recommendations Three Basic Approaches By its very nature, the […]
Right to Educational Access Paper, Part I
Update: This paper can be found at the 20MM site and has also been broken into four separate posts on e-Literate: Part I: Introduction & Current Initiatives from Three Systems Part II: Three Basic Approaches Part III: Focus on Student Rights and Perspectives & Metrics to Collect Part IV: Recommendations Introduction When the Master Plan […]