Efficacy vs Effectiveness

I know I’ve written about efficacy, student success per dollar, and related topics before, but my mind continues to be drawn back to the issue. I can’t adequately express how important I believe this conversation to be. Consider the following fictitious scenario: A pharmaceutical company is developing a drug to cure a rare form cancer. … Read more

Personalization in Lumen’s “Next Gen” OER Courseware Pilot

For almost three years Lumen Learning has been helping faculty, departments, and entire degree programs adopt OER in place of expensive commercial textbooks. In addition to saving students enormous amounts of money we’ve helped improve the effectiveness of courses we’ve supported, as we’re demonstrating in publications in peer-reviewed journals co-authored both with faculty from our … Read more

MHA Convocation Address, June 2015

Back in June I had the great privilege of speaking at the Mountain Heights Academy Convocation Ceremony. This is largely the talk I to gave, except a few paragraphs at the end I skipped over as I ran out of time. I’ve been speaking about this theme more and more recently, starting with my 2013 … Read more