gonzalo, to academicchatter
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Happy to share that today I received the Instructional Innovator of the Year trophy at Morgan State University.

I guess my work with virtual language exchanges and open educational resources have also contributed to this award.

I am excited about it as this is only my third year at Morgan. I wanted to share my happiness with you. #academia @academicchatter #OER #VirtualExchange

MsMerope,
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EVDHmn,
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@gonzalo @academicchatter
Congratulations! That’s cool! So how do you feel about the award? I just mean, did you always have these goals, what are your hobbies? How do you pace yourself? I’m just curious I always like to hear perspectives, if you don’t mind, if you do mind I apologize. I mean no disrespect.

KestrelSWard, to academicchatter
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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

KestrelSWard,
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@PaquitoBernard @academicchatter I don’t, I’m just starting to explore options right now!

thatdnaguy,
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@KestrelSWard @academicchatter gotta pad those meager profits somewhere

SteveMcCarty, to academicchatter
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College for intergenerational mobility provides another perspective with which to champion higher education: "The deep inequity of the anti-college movement," Jose Luis Alvarado (The Hill, 10/28/23): https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4281108-the-deep-inequity-of-the-anti-college-movement

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.

Although Dr. Alvarado's article is closer to my experience than you'd imagine, I relied upon the merits of millenia of academia for a series on the academic life, including "The Idea of the University"; download from: https://hcommons.org/deposits/download/hc:26460/CONTENT/academic_life_series.pdf

Comments on Dr. Alvarado's article or the above?

@edutooter @academicchatter @OnlineEducation

RefocusOpenScience,

@SteveMcCarty @edutooter @academicchatter @OnlineEducation Steve McCarty, It’s the tools that we have in our daily possession that allow us to have daily access to Higher Education. Ideas have not changed that much from allowing general public access to published books at Carnegie Mellon Libraries, University Repository Library Depositories, Public Broadcast System (PBS/NPR) via TV & radio, World Wide Web/Internet via personal computers & SMART phones. New tools improve general public HE access.

nefkostak, to edutooters
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Hello, everyone!
It's time for a proper !
I'm Nefeli, a 2nd grade from Greece.
I'm mostly interested in and 👩‍🏫👩‍💻
In my spare time, I'm also building @elemedu, an sharing platform for school !
I'd love to connect with who share the same interests. @edutooters

citc,

Nice web site, well produced! :)
It would be appreciated if an ATOM/RSS feed for the blog was made available, to subscribe via my RSS reader.

theappletree,
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@nefkostak @elemedu @edutooters Welcome Nefeli!

alexh, to cognition
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"From Attention to Distraction", a textbook formatted for the web with bookdown

http://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 , lemme know! @cognition

alexh,
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@tomstafford @cognition thank you Tom! Yes I think I gradually worked out how to use bookdown well, just in time for it to be superseded(?) by Quarto books!

johnntowse,
@johnntowse@mstdn.social avatar

@alexh @cognition
This is a fantastic resource, thanks!

BTW, chapter 5, the link to see the circled mountain-lion generates a not found message.

petersuber, to academicchatter
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The prez of West Texas A&M Uni has a confusing proposal for a "textbook-free campus".
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2023/08/29/west-texas-am-says-it-wont-charge-textbooks-next

He clarified that he means "textbook-free, not free textbooks." Hence () won't satisfy him. But he encourages OER as if they would.

Faculty criticized him for “encouraging [them] to invest significant time” in creating “ materials" (OER) rather than using or improving materials from publishers.

His response? Use .


@academicchatter

marcusgreen,

@fronch @gabrielfp @petersuber @academicchatter

During my time as a teacher in the mid noughties I never had access to OER material and the commercial resources required lots of extra labour to use them for lessons.

I had assumed it was just how teaching resources work. Is that me or a common experience?

fronch,
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@marcusgreen @gabrielfp @petersuber @academicchatter In my experience, instructors (in math) tend to have an easy time using the prebuilt materials that come with books from big publishers

rmrahal, to random
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The community is building a second home on . Are you over there, looking for others who care about , , , , + all other things Open? Join this list so we can find each other! https://germanrepro.github.io/Mastodon-OpenScience/

alexh, to cognition
@alexh@fediscience.org avatar

"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 , lemme know! @cognition

donwatkins, to edutooters
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drjacannon, to edutooters

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!

https://sites.google.com/view/drjacannon/online-instructional-activities-index

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