Today I am discovering the wonderful world of Open Access APCs. I, a poor queer independent researcher, would like to publish my research open access because I believe it should be free to any who need it. The publication we were pointed to as being ideal for publishing our work....wants to charge over $3000USD. I thought I was misreading that at first, but no apparently not. @academicchatter#academicchatter#OER#AcademicPublishing
We have looked to MOOCs, OERs, open access publications, and online education generally to widen access to higher education for those disadvantaged by the digital divide as well as for learners worldwide who are not affluent enough to access f2f higher education.
Hello, everyone!
It's time for a proper #introduction!
I'm Nefeli, a 2nd grade #teacher from Greece.
I'm mostly interested in #education and #edtech 👩🏫👩💻
In my spare time, I'm also building @elemedu, an #OER sharing platform for school #teachers!
I'd love to connect with #educators who share the same interests. @edutooters
About 30,000 words but each chapter is short, and many focus on visual demos.
The last chapters are a little rough. If anyone has comments, or ideas for making it more useful as an #OER, lemme know! #perception#cognition@cognition
"From Attention to Distraction", a textbook formatted for the web with bookdown
psyc2016.whatanimalssee.com
About 30,000 words but each chapter is short, and many focus on visual demos.
The last chapters are a little rough. If anyone has comments, or ideas for making it more useful as an #OER, lemme know! #perception#cognition@cognition
Turns out the University of Illinois Online Instructional Activities Index is now behind a wall. Therefore…
I created a new Online and Hybrid Instructional Activities Index with updated ideas and added a new feature—related Ed Tech tools you might use for those online activities. It won’t disappear from the web. Feel free to share widely or suggest other ideas!
He clarified that he means "textbook-free, not free textbooks." Hence #OpenTextbooks (#OER) won't satisfy him. But he encourages OER as if they would.
Faculty criticized him for “encouraging [them] to invest significant time” in creating “#OpenAccess materials" (OER) rather than using or improving materials from publishers.
@petersuber@academicchatter I'm a big fan of using #OER but it is far from free. Instructors often need to supplement the OER materials with their own homework, videos, or examples to match what comes bundled with many texts from large publishers.
@gabrielfp@petersuber@academicchatter Sorry if I wasn't being clear. My point is that #OER aren't "free" if they require the instructor to do lots of extra labor to provide an equivalent educational experience to students. Especially not if the instructor is an already-criminally-underpaid #adjunct
I recently found a poster on why you should choose Open Educational Practices. I have made a Canva version of the poster if you'd like to remix a copy for yourself.
@Loukas asked: "Is there some kind of open platform where teachers share lesson plans and resources?" Greetings from Japan, and hope this helps:
At Humanities Commons you can set up a free Profile and site that is principally a blog or a Website - like I have at https://japanned.hcommons.org - and they have a repository called CORE to upload all sorts of publications and deliverables, in categories including "Course material or learning objects" (each assigned a DOI and connected to Google Scholar), an example of which you can see under "Work Shared in CORE" at https://hcommons.org/members/stevemccartyinjapan