student success

How Generative AI Affects Open Educational Resources

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This is the middle section of my September 19, 2024 presentation, Why Open Education Will Become Generative AI Education. I’m pre-posting some of the presentation content due to the very active conversation the announcement of the presentation has created. Next week I hope to post the first section of the presentation, which outlines the reasons … Read more

Pervasive Threats to Validity in the OER Adoption Research; or, Three Questions to Ask When You Read OER Adoption Research

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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

All work is group work now: Collaborative learning as a pedagogical and assessment framework for learning with generative AI

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One of the main concerns about generative AI is “cheating,” or students getting credit for work they didn’t do. This is actually a problem that collaborative learning has been grappling with for decades. In fact, if you think of generative AI as a collaborator in a group project, there’s actually quite a lot of existing practice … Read more