The OER Hub team prepare for launch July marked the end of the initial phase of the OER Research Hub. It’s been a great three years, and Beck has pulled out some of the highlights. But what ne...
https://blog.openassembly.com/2015/09/03/future-direction-of-the-oer-research-hub/
The question of whether a college degree–especially a four-year college degree–is still “worth it” is being asked by many graduating students as they discover sobering truths about the co...
https://blog.openassembly.com/2015/07/30/career-pathways-part-1/
Sarah Pearson and Paul Stacey of Creative Commons have created a case study for the very substance of the book project they are crowdfunding on Kickstarter: they’re raising funds to support the...
https://blog.openassembly.com/2015/07/30/made-with-creative-commons-on-kickstarter/
During National Adjunct Action Week, Feb. 23-27, union-represented adjuncts joined with actions that ranged from creative picketing to teach-ins to in-class explanations of adjunct issues. These ...
Developing education technology that truly serves the everyday needs of college educators and learners is not an easy task. It’s actually an incredibly humbling undertaking, and you need to ...
https://blog.openassembly.com/2014/12/03/open-assembly-oer-meets-web-20/
It gives me great pleasure to announce that OER Research Hub is now ready to release the first of its dissemination reports. The ‘OER Evidence Report 2013-2014’ brings together a range of evi...
https://blog.openassembly.com/2014/11/19/oerrh-oer-evidence-report-2013-2014/
As John Rindele pointed out in his presentation at Open Education 11, “a key factor in OER uptake is the ability of resources to be easily accessed, combined with other course materials, and pr...
https://blog.openassembly.com/2014/11/16/the-oer-lms-oxymoron/
Originally posted on Bryan Alexander : Congratulations to the Chronicle of Higher Education for running a very convincing hoax. They recently published a “letter to the editor”, entitled “...
https://blog.openassembly.com/2014/08/29/a-fine-hoax-of-attitudes-towards-adjuncts-in-the-chronicle/
To better engage her students, this adjunct details how she used our platform to track their progress (and find out whether they were really paying attention in class). This summer I had the ...
https://blog.openassembly.com/2014/08/25/open-assembly-test-drive/
For all kinds of learners, summer offers an extended stretch of time to discover new ideas and skills on an informal basis. With the fall semester approaching, this got Open Assembly intern Eli...
https://blog.openassembly.com/2014/08/18/informal-education-learning/
The University of Greenland and its institute for educational sciences, Inerisaavik, have been leading a project to make information communication and technology (ICT) standard in European school...
With the fall semester upon us, students are already asking themselves which textbook option will best serve their learning needs and their wallets: is it print, digital, or open? Because when ...
https://blog.openassembly.com/2014/08/08/textbook-buck-print-digital-open/
Earlier this month Congress made its first moves in rewriting the Higher Education Act, including the House of Representatives’ passing a bill that would create greater federal support for and...
https://blog.openassembly.com/2014/07/25/competency-based-education-higher-ed-act/
A pedagogical experiment conducted by a professor at the University of Zurich upset his institution, many of his students, and Coursera headquarters. The debacle surrounding his tinkering wi...
https://blog.openassembly.com/2014/07/23/a-mooc-runs-amok-update/
Happy Public Domain Month! Our open resource colleagues in Europe are especially busy this month promoting the Public Domain standard for shared European cultural resources: Here at Europeana, we...
https://blog.openassembly.com/2014/07/23/europeana-july-is-public-domain-month/