- Openness in education refers to making educational materials like textbooks, courses, and resources freely available and allowing them to be reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed.
- When educational materials are openly shared, expertise can be given without being given away as knowledge is nonrivalrous. This unprecedented sharing allows for education to occur on a greater scale than ever before.
- Analytics of student interaction data from open educational resources and courses can help identify struggling students and curricular areas needing improvement, enabling continuous quality improvement of education through an ongoing cycle of assessment and refinement.
Openness, Learning Analytics, and Continuous Quality Improvement
1. Openness, Analytics, and Continuous Quality Improvement David Wiley, PhD Department of Instructional Psychology & Technology Brigham Young University
32. “ He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.” Thomas Jefferson
As paper became more affordable, dictations became the common form in early universities, and students hand wrote their own copies of texts.
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With the “lecture text” we get wide margins, so that faculty can now dictate their annotations to students. Though universities temporarily ban dictations, students demand them and they continue.
And this is still our primary mode of instruction, 3000 years later.
Allan Collins talked about customization, learner control, production – technology enables these, but the law does not allow them.