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OER Brings Affordable Learning to More Students
The average college student pays more than $1,100 every year for textbooks, reported the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). PIRG also reported that textbook costs are 26 percent of tuition at public universities and 72 percent of tuition at community colleges, according to estimates by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
What I’m Seeing: Apps Reinventing Learning Experiences
There are apps that are reinventing the learning experiences. Here's a few examples of how video is revolutionizing teaching, how apps are making science more engaging, and how mobile technology helps students navigate higher ed.
How Formative Assessment Supports Writing to Learn
One MIT prof thinks he can game one engine and the New York Times and NPR do stories on his anecdotal claims and miss the evidence of many large scientific studies including the study released this month. ASAP was designed to create evidence that supports the use of automated essay scoring to affordably incorporate more writing on their annual tests and avoid tests limited to multiple choice items. ASAP has provided sufficient evidence to support widespread use of automated scoring.
Oklahoma Dialog on Digital Learning Now
The shift to digital learning adds benefits but increases complexity. And, in most places, there’s no more money. In fact we’re dealing with what Marguerite Roza calls the Decade of Deficits.
Q&A: CK-12 Says OER & Tech Can Unlock Cheaper, Better Learning
Neeru Khosla, the Co-founder and Chair behind the growing open educational resources (OER) nonprofit CK-12 Foundation, joins us today to share her motivation, aspirations and goals in bringing higher quality educational materials to more educators and students across the globe – for free. Khosla attended Stanford University’s education and…
Good Work: Leave a Legacy, Teach
M. Scott Peck suggests that love is extending yourself to serve another person’s growth. In this sense, teaching is the essence of love. To teach is to leave a legacy of expanded human potential. It is a calling that every man, women and child has the opportunity to participate in - the highest calling of human existence and the greatest gift of the human spirit.
Welcome to the Education Renaissance
Today's disruptive changes in education -- from the proliferation of digital devices to the availability of open educational resources, online universities, and badge-based certification -- have the field abuzz like never before. Recently I had the opportunity to give a talk at WNET's Celebration of Teaching and Learning on creating the conditions for innovation in education.
10 Open & Free Educational Resources
In honor of Open Education Week, the Getting Smart team has compiled ten great open and free educational resources for students and educators.
First-Ever Open Education Week Launches Today
The first-ever Open Education Week kicks off today online and at locally-hosted events around the globe. The event, which will run through March 10, 2012, is intended to raise awareness around the benefit, impact, and success of open education resources (OER) around the world. The open education movement strives…
Welcome to the Post Textbook World: Ten Elements
A friend asked what I thought about Jay Mathew’s post on textbooks. I thought the rear view mirror critique of a process to pick better textbooks read more like a 1982, not a 2012 discussion – and certainly not the 2015 conversation we should be having.