Replacing Textbooks with OER

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Congrats to the UMass for their pilot OER program which is saving students over 7x the university’s investment in the very first year. Eight faculty members were awarded a total of 10 grants, $1,000 per course, to adopt a new curricular resource strategy using easily identified digital resources. Under the program, faculty developed a variety … Read more

You’ve Got to Speak Their Language…

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Steve Carson has a terrific proposal on his blog this week: What would happen in the US, I wonder, if US News & WR suddenly began considering transparency and knowledge dissemination as embodied in OCW/OER projects as a part of its formula? I’m sure they are lobbied all the time for changes to the formula, … Read more

Openness + Analytics: Khan Academy Follows CMU OLI Toward Next-Gen OER

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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