Comments on: Educational and Cost Effectiveness: OER vs Traditional Textbooks http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1537 pragmatism over zeal Fri, 18 May 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: OER vs. Traditional Textbooks Study « http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1537/comment-page-1#comment-46733 OER vs. Traditional Textbooks Study « Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:59:15 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/?p=1537#comment-46733 [...] 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment David Wiley has a new post announcing that a study to compare students learning from traditional textbooks [...] [...] 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment David Wiley has a new post announcing that a study to compare students learning from traditional textbooks [...]

]]> By: Glen http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1537/comment-page-1#comment-46731 Glen Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:55:18 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/?p=1537#comment-46731 Excellent! Congrats on the grant. Looking forward to seeing the data. Excellent! Congrats on the grant. Looking forward to seeing the data.

]]> By: David Porter http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1537/comment-page-1#comment-46717 David Porter Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:14:30 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/?p=1537#comment-46717 I like and support this initiative because it takes the OER movement onto a more practical track. Even if the study was limited to further demonstrating the efficacy of the financial savings approach, it would be worthwhle. By including self-regulation practices like annotation and highlighting as a part of the research, the potential synergies should provide a pretty compelling wedge to drive into the middle assuptions about current practices in the textbook realm. Bravo. d. I like and support this initiative because it takes the OER movement onto a more practical track.

Even if the study was limited to further demonstrating the efficacy of the financial savings approach, it would be worthwhle. By including self-regulation practices like annotation and highlighting as a part of the research, the potential synergies should provide a pretty compelling wedge to drive into the middle assuptions about current practices in the textbook realm.

Bravo.

d.

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