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  • artificial intelligence, open content, politics, teaching

OER / ZTC Advocates Have an AI Problem

At some point over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) advocacy in US higher education became zero textbook costs (ZTC) advocacy. The two are intertwined now in a manner that would be difficult to disentangle even if you wanted…

  • david
  • March 21, 2023
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  • artificial intelligence, research

Emerging Standards for Using LLMs Like ChatGPT in Research Publications

The journal Nature, and all other Springer Nature titles, have updated their Guide to Authors with rules for using LLMs like ChatGPT when writing research articles for the publication. To summarize, the rules say: 1. DO NOT list the LLM…

  • david
  • January 25, 2023
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  • artificial intelligence, instructional design, open content, sustainability

AI, Instructional Design, and OER

2022 saw some significant advancements in artificial intelligence. My threshold for “significant” here being that the advances moved out of labs and arXiv.org preprints and into tools that many people were using and talking about. Lots of people thought text-to-image…

  • david
  • January 23, 2023
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  • open content

Faculty are Losing Interest in Adopting OER

I missed this when it was first published, but a few months ago Ithaka S+R shared the results of their Ithaka S+R  US Faculty Survey 2021. The survey went out to 145,099 randomly selected faculty members across the US and…

  • david
  • January 19, 2023
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  • equity, improving learning, instructional design, research, student success

Lessons from Treadmills and Owls: The Most Important Feature in Educational Technology Products

Treadmills are iconic pieces of exercise equipment for the wrong reason. They’re famous  primarily for sitting unused in basements and spare bedrooms all across the country. These treadmills go unused despite having some pretty sophisticated features, including embedded video trainers…

  • david
  • November 2, 2022
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