Tag: open

Most Big Ideas Have Loud Critics

Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #395. Your go-to source for insightful content on education, technology, and the digital landscape. I recently posted the following: Understanding Privilege in Arguments: Principles vs Personal Opinions – Privilege manifests subtly in how we argue during conversations and debates, specifically when the focus shifts away from broader principles to personal…

Multimodal Omnimodel Models

Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #394. Your go-to source for insightful content on education, technology, and the digital landscape. This week I posted the following: Transitioning from Turning on Each Other to Turning Towards Each Other – Turning on each other is an all too common pattern in our relationships and social structures. On the…

Dwell Time

Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #332. I presented three sessions this week at TLT Con 2022. Student Privacy and Pandemics: Understanding and Reducing Privacy and Security Risks – I discuss the different types of student data, how that data is used, and the key policies, practices, and procedures that schools and districts should implement to…

Jon Tennant about need/goals for open science

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The Uncertain Future of OER

The Uncertain Future of OER | Edutopia (Edutopia)

High-quality open educational resources that are freely shared and improved upon have enormous appeal, but they’re not a reality yet—and may never be.

From Edutopia: Open educational resources (OER) have been on the cusp of arriving for more than 15 years, but somehow they never do. So what’s the holdup? In the post, Tom Berger posits that teachers aren’t onboard, with good reason. At the same time, OER are not going away for budgetary reasons. I think Stephen…

Scholars in an increasingly open and digital world: imagined audiences and their impact on scholars’ online participation

Scholars in an increasingly open and digital world: imagined audiences and their impact on scholars’ online participation (Learning, Media and Technology Journal)

Imagined audiences, social media, online networks, networked scholarship, qualitative research

This study investigates the audiences that scholars imagine encountering online and the ways in which these audiences impact scholars’ online participation and presentation of self. Prior research suggests that imagined audiences affect what users share and how they present themselves on social media, but little research has examined this topic in the context of faculty…