Techno-News Blog. Eighty-two percent of institutions say open educational resources (OER) will be an important source of course content in 5 years, according to a survey of CIOs detailed in an annual report that takes a look at campus IT. [Read last year’s Campus Computing results here “CIOS: 5 campus IT priorities for 2016 and beyond.“] The results of the report were released during the recent EDUCAUSE 2017 conference held in Philadelphia, Pa. More...
OpenStax Launches Learning Platform
Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed, 2017/07/11
Rice University's OpenStax, which once upon a time was known as a free textbook site called Connexions, has launched Tutor Beta, an online learning platform that will make three courses -- biology, physics and sociology -- available this fall. I'm thinking that the textbook project felt it was missing out on the MOOC phenomenon (MOOCS: still not dead). More...
Pragmatism vs. Idealism and the Identity Crisis of OER Advocacy
Rajiv Sunil Jhangiani, Open Praxis, 2017/06/30
This article describes pretty accurately the identity crisis in open education (OE) "as it is pulled towards both pragmatism (marked by an emphasis on cost savings, resources, and incremental change) and idealism (marked by an emphasis on permissions, practices, and radical change)." I think the divisions have always existed. More...
Preparation for Open Ed SIG webinar on shared values of the open community
Teresa MacKinnon, JISC Open Ed Sig, 2017/06/23
In view of the conflicts between open education communities in recent months JISC's Open Ed Sig is planning a webinar. More...
Iris.ai
Iris AI AS, 2017/06/23
The idea behind Iris.ai is that you provide it with the URL of a research paper and it provides you with a set or related papers (from a database of 60 million open access papers) organized by category. For example, I gave it New Models of Open and Distributed Learning and got 259 related papers grouped by concept. More...
Open University jobs at risk in £100m 'root and branch' overhaul
Sally Weale, The Guardian, 2017/06/16
I'm sorry to read this. I'm taking it to reflect the impact of the transition from more traditional approaches to digital delivery (maybe with a bit of FutureLearn thrown in). More...
10 recommendations on HE from OEB Mid-Summit (Reykjavik)
Donald Clark, Donald Clark Plan B, 2017/06/13
The recommendations in this post are mostly unremarkable, but there is interesting reading ion the section critiquing the keynote by Audrey Watters at the same conference. More...
By Maina Waruru. The African Academy of Sciences, or AAS, is launching its own publication platform early next year that guarantees researchers immediate publication of articles and other research outputs without editorial bias, and a transparent post-publication peer review. More...
5 Tips For Choosing The Right Open Source Code
Jonathan Saring, ReadWrite, 2017/06/08
Ignore for the moment the fact that this article is about open source code, and pretend it's about open educational resources or something similar. The advice it give becomes spot-on. More...
Open Learning, Open Networks
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, 2017/06/07
Open online learning entered the mainstream with the growth and popularity of MOOCs, but while interest in open online courses has never been greater MOOCs represent only the first step in a broader open learning infrastructure. More...
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