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I recently blogged about the Apple announcement and how it amounted to publishers ceding the “traditional” textbook market (whether print or digital) to OER makers. One way to interpret that concession is as a win for open education. And it is a win – temporarily. Another way to interpret the concession by publishers is to … Read more
I frequently describe openness and analytics as chocolate and peanut butter – both are tasty individually, but together their synergy is truly remarkable. Until recently we only had one example – CMU’s OLI – where this synergy was really running at full steam: openness providing permission to make improvements to curriculum and analytics providing empirical … Read more
As part of my work on the NGLC-funded Kaleidoscope Project I’ve been thinking about practical learning analytics. Why “practical”? My goal with practical learning analytics is to provide access to data in ways that an average teacher, with no special training, can leverage in order to help her students succeed. This is, of course, an … Read more