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As I’ve been (re-)reading OER adoption research through a more critical lens I’m seeing a recurring pattern of significant threats to validity in the designs of studies purporting to measure the impact of OER adoption on student outcomes. While there are numerous methodological issues to consider, in this essay I’ll discuss three. Specifically, I’ll share: … Read more
I’ve found this to be a useful analogy for understanding what it means for generative AI to be “open”: Operating systems can be proprietary or open source. Device drivers and other kernel modules that change the behavior of the operating system can be proprietary or open source. Software programs that run on an operating system … Read more
If you can remember the web of 30 years ago(!), you can remember a time when all it took to make a website was a little knowledge of HTML and a tilde account on the university VAXcluster (e.g., /~wiley6/). While it’s still possible to make a simple website today with just HTML, making modern websites … Read more