Don Gorges May 1 to August 25

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Don Gorges

Don Gorges April 8 to May 1

Posted on May 2, 2017 by Don Gorges

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Robin DeRosa and Dan Blickensderfer Key principles of Open Labs

What Makes an Open Lab ‘Open’?

As public universities divert resources into new kinds of learning spaces, they should promote collaborative and mutually enriching connections among students and institutions, write Robin DeRosa and Dan Blickensderfer.

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May 2, 2017

__#OER_ Blackboard Classroom delivers a comprehensive digital learning environment designed specifically to address the needs of K-12 education _ Teachers have numerous options for engaging students with interactive content and a global, cross-platform learning object repository. The repository includes open education resources (OER) such as CK-12, Khan Academy, and SAS Curriculum Pathways, and gives users the ability to create and share content with a global network of educators.

Blackboard provides solutions for districts and schools to help ensure the safety and security of your students. Find the answers to your questions today!

Blackboard Classroom: Blackboard Classroom | Blackboard; New Solution from Blackboard Helps K-12 School Districts Make Learning More Engaging, Personalized

__#OER _ Michael Geist contributed his expert opinions on Canadian Copyright law in Education at the CCSummit over the weekend. He offers his thoughts on the Ontario government’s support for eCampus Ontario OER initiatives, as described by Deb Matthews, Ontario Minister for Advanced Education and Skills Development, in her opening remarks _

Michael Geist CCSummit Ontario Government Placing Big Bet on Open Textbooks: Ontario Government Placing Big Bet on Open Textbooks – Michael Geist

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__#OER #CCSummit Creative Commons has produced a 200 pound, 7.5 feet tall 3D rendering of one of the Palmyra Tetrapylons. Ryan Merkley, Creative Commons CEO, “Creative Commons wanted to bring the commons to life for its 2017 Summit in Toronto. CC brought Austin-based re:3D together with the #NEWPALMYRA project team. _ https://lnkd.in/eQzWUR5 _ Awesome!

CCSummit, CC, 3-D Printing, re:3d, New Palmyra project: Sharing a lost city: An innovative collaboration with re:3d and the New Palmyra project – Creative Commons

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__HMH has essentially dismantled its paperback program for the children’s division. In its place, according to a company spokesperson, HMH has created a structure for editors to oversee the entire publication process of their books, from hardcover acquisition through to paperback publication. “At HMH BFYR we’re positioning ourselves to build on our tremendous legacy and successes and invest in new opportunities,” Cat Onder, senior v-p and publisher of HMH Books for Young Readers, said in a statement. “Our moving forward strategy is to empower editors to oversee all editions of their books for a more focused and streamlined publishing process.” The layoffs also affected editors and marketing, licensing, and publicity staff in the adult trade, culinary, and reference divisions. Cuts were anticipated this week in the educational publishing group. An initial round of layoffs began in March. via HMH Lays Off 11 from Children’s Division _

HMH Lays Off 11 from Children’s Division: HMH Lays Off 11 from Children’s Division

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Tom Dart Senior Production/Layout Specialist

A few of the projects that I completed in 2016 in my role as a Long Document Layout Specialist (typesetter in old vernacular). Last year I had the pleasure of creating the tech art and layout on a number of textbooks, PowerPoints, and new a new skill for 2016 conversion of print to fully-accessible website. My resume now includes conversion from Epub to print and from print to web. Thanks to my clients for all the great projects. If you need any help, just get in touch!!!

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__Statistics Canada has released data on the number and salaries of full-time teaching staff at Canadian universities. In 2016-17, the median salary for full professors was $124,325, followed by associate professors at $97,423, assistant professors at $77,169 and those at ranks below assistant professors at $71,060 _ https://lnkd.in/euye-MA

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__Peter Cohen has served as Executive Vice President of McGraw-Hill Education since December 2016, and previously was Group President of U.S. Education, overseeing the company’s U.S. K-12 and higher education businesses. Cohen joined McGraw-Hill Education in 2013 as president of the McGraw-Hill School Education Group. Prior to McGraw-Hill, Cohen served as chief executive officer of Pearson Education’s School division, where he was instrumental in shifting the company’s focus toward digital resources and expanding its school services. He also served as chief executive officer of Sylvan Learning Center and Educate, Inc., driving the organization’s expansion in the K-12 education space. __

University of Phoenix Announces Peter Cohen as New University President

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University of Phoenix today announced that the institution’s board of trustees has named Peter Cohen as the new president of the University. As the eighth University of Phoenix president, Cohen succeeds Timothy P.

Peter Cohen, University of Phoenix, Apollo Education Group: University of Phoenix Announces Peter Cohen as New University President; University of Phoenix Hires New President

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__Related: In February, the Apollo Education Group, which owns the University of Phoenix, was acquired by McGraw-Hill Education owner, Apollo Global Management (no relation to Apollo Education Group), with The Vistria Group and Najafi Companies completing the consortium. _ https://thepienews.com/news/apollo-education-group-acquired-apollo-global-management/

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__Discussion on definition of open pedagogy involving David Wiley, Catherine Cronin, Robin DeRosa, Sheila MacNeill, Sukaina Walji, Viv Rolfe, David Kernohan, Tannis Morgan, Mike Caulfield and Maha Bali. Joined by Sue Higgins and Mary Lou Forward from OEConsortium __Note the differences in their positions’ and perspectives’ are very well contrasted with one businessman’s vision __

Open Pedagogy Open Discussion #YearOfOpen

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Clive Powell Principal Consultant 1w

The Ryerson Press Collection, a collection of some 3000 titles dating back to 1862, was officially donated to Ryerson University Library Archives and Special Collections. To find out more about this amazing collection, check out my blog at https://lnkd.in/eBQWw-h

The Ryerson Press Collection Archive 1862-1970, Clive Powell, McGraw-Hill Ryerson: The Ryerson Archive | The Ryerson Press Archive 1862-1970; The Ryerson Archive | The Ryerson Press Archive 1862-1970; The Ryerson Archive | The Ryerson Press Archive 1862-1970; The Ryerson Archive | The Ryerson Press Archive 1862-1970; The Ryerson Archive | The Ryerson Press Archive 1862-1970; The Ryerson Archive | The Ryerson Press Archive 1862-1970; dsc_0044.jpg; img_0229.jpg; The Ryerson Archive | The Ryerson Press Archive 1862-1970; cropped-dsc_00311.jpg; About | The Ryerson Archive

2017 04 23

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__A book about sharing and open business models “We analyzed the revenue models, customer segments, and value propositions of each endeavor. We searched for ways that putting their content under Creative Commons licenses helped boost sales or increase reach. Using traditional measures of economic success, we tried to map these business models in a way that meaningfully incorporated the impact of Creative Commons. In our interviews, we dug into the motivations, the role of CC licenses, modes of revenue generation, definitions of success.” _ https://lnkd.in/eSii83g

Made with Creative Commons: Available at the CC Summit – Creative Commons: Made with Creative Commons: Available at the CC Summit – Creative Commons

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Cable Green, PhD Director of Open Education at Creative Commons 1w

#OER movement is growing fast! @opencontent welcomes growing pains as oppty to make a great movement even greater:

2017 04 21

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__Berkeley, Calif.-based digital artist Bert Monroy has built a reputation for photorealistic works that are panoramic, as well as seemingly infinitely detailed. On his website, when viewing works such as “Times Square” and “Amsterdam Mist”, you can zoom in to reveal layers upon layers of detail, all painstakingly hand-drawn. __

An Eye for Detail: The Many Layers of Digital Artist Bert Monroy: An Eye for Detail: The Many Layers of Digital Artist Bert Monroy – WhatTheyThink; Times Square

2017 04 21

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__There are three features of high-converting images that you need to be aware of. __

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__”Artscape Daniels Launchpad’s goal is to help artists and designers build thriving careers, organizations and businesses. It will be a unique place where creatives have access to a multi-disciplinary environment full of tools, equipment and technology, entrepreneurship programs and activities, and a marketplace of services, resources and opportunities.” __

Art and design hub Artscape Daniels Launchpad receives $21.4 million to support creative: Art and design hub Artscape Daniels Launchpad receives $21.4 million to support creative

2017 04 21

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__”Pearson and a subsidiary of the National Association of College Stores, indiCo, announced a new partnership to expand Pearson’s recently announced textbook rental program to up to 1,500 independent campus bookstores. Beginning this fall, 50 popular Pearson titles will be available via a “rental-only” model, which will provide students with affordable access to the selected titles.” __

Pearson and indiCo Partner to Bring Students More Affordable Textbooks in Campus Stores

Pearson Strikes Textbook Rental Deal with NACS National Association of College Stores subsidiary, indiCo.: Pearson Strikes Textbook Rental Deal with NACS; National College Store Association Gears Up to Fight for Independent Campus Bookstores; Pearson and indiCo Partner to Bring Students More Affordable Textbooks in Campus Stores; Home

2017 04 21

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Textbook Time: New Books Approved for Collier School District – Naples Herald (this is either a really GOOD idea, or a BAD idea.

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__”Changes in [Florida] state law have meant changes to the [K-12] book buying process for school districts around the state. Districts are required to publish proposed materials for a 30-day review period, during which parents can look over them and file any objections with the district if they see issues within any materials on accuracy or bias.” __Some may be interested to know there are no OER materials listed, in fact, likely one would find that these very same textbooks appeared on the 2007 list. The list of current K-12 textbooks is posted here _ http://www.collierschools.com/Page/7565

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Cara Yarzab Director, Product Development (Digital Media and Education Solutions) at TVOntario 2w

Hi Folks! One week left to apply for a product manager role on my team. Really looking for someone with digital media experience. If you have worked in broadcast or journalism I’m really, really interested in talking to you. At a time when journalism has been threatened by economic forces – with an estimated 10,000 jobs lost in the past decade – TVO provides more context and analysis on the issues that matter. It’s also a great place to work!

Current Opportunities

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2017 04 20

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Faculty will not volunteer to create #OER that For-Profits package-up for sale to students, likely?

__”The open education community is not unified around goals and priorities. It will be interesting to see how various participants react to the commercial success of Lumen (and, for that matter, OpenStax). Interesting times.” Michael Feldstein _ Lumen and Follett: _ https://lnkd.in/emvQPqS _ Stephen Downes posts _ https://lnkd.in/edJbfma and _ https://lnkd.in/eadhDKk _

__Follett and Lumen Learning today announced a partnership to lower costs and improve student success through the use of academic content and courseware based entirely on open educational resources (OER). Standard pricing for Lumen course support fees is $25 per student enrolled in course sections using Waymaker and Lumen OHM. Students pay Lumen’s course support fees through Follett’s IncludED™ program. Dedicated, workshop-style training services are available upon request, and may be recommended for larger groups. _ http://follett.com/lumen/ _ In his Blog today, David Wiley fleshes out specifics of the new option which makes it possible for individual faculty to choose to work with Lumen, which hasn’t been possible due to Lumen’s institutional-focus model _ https://lnkd.in/edmjcVG _

Follett and Lumen Learning to Expand Adoption of OER Courseware: Follett and Lumen; Announcement 2017.04.17 Follett | Lumen Learning; Portland higher education startup snags $3.8M, national partnership – Portland Business Journal; Follett, Lumen Learning announce OER partnership; Follett to Integrate Lumen Learning OER Courseware — Campus Technology

2017 04 17

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__Publishers and Open-Resource Advocates Square Off on the Future of Course Content By Goldie Blumenstyk April 17, 2017 At a friendly yet spirited debate last month over the pros and cons of open educational resources, publishers and OER advocates agreed on at least one thing: The “old” textbook market is broken. But that’s pretty much where the common ground ended. _Article in The Chronicle of Higher Education _ https://lnkd.in/ePKb7Up _ Listen to the Debate _ https://lnkd.in/e7QuWhz _

Goldie Blumenstyk – Publishers and Open-Resource Advocates Square Off on the Future of Course Content: A Debate on “Open” Educational Resources – SXSWedu 2017 by SXSWedu | SXSWedu | Free Listening on SoundCloud; Goldie Blumenstyk discusses the future of higher education – YouTube; Publishers and Open-Resource Advocates Square Off on the Future of Course Content – The Chronicle of Higher Education; Goldie Blumenstyk, A Debate on Open Educational Resources, SXSWedu 2017; Special Program hosted by The Chronicle of Higher Education | SXSWedu.com; SXSWedu Schedule

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__In this presentation, George Veletsianos says these findings should lead us to question the value of traditional textbooks [4:08] _ https://lnkd.in/eTksdRp __Yes, an #OER Research Lab – online resources required to enable personal review of the referred-to material which has been studied and compared in each of these OER studies posted at The Review Project _ https://lnkd.in/eSVEdMr _

George Veletsianos – YouTube, OER Research John Hilton, A Review of the Effectiveness & Perceptions of Open Educational Resources As Compared to Textbooks: A Review of the Effectiveness & Perceptions of Open Educational Resources As Compared to Textbooks – YouTube; Maintaining Momentum Toward Graduation: OER and the Course Throughput Rate | Hilton III | The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning; Research Shorts – YouTube; Open educational resources and college textbook choices: a review of research on efficacy and perceptions | SpringerLink

__#OER Research Labs online platform: Would enable accessing all resources being studied and enable personal review and user design research _1. Method “First, the resource(s) examined in the study needed to be OER that were the primary learning resource(s) used in a higher education setting and be compared with traditional learning resources.” and 2. Method “Non-Z sections (sections requiring commercial publisher materials) were labeled control, while Z-sections (OER) were considered treatment.”

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__@DonGorges Twitter Posts #OER to April 16 _ https://lnkd.in/eqGchPz _

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__CUNY, SUNY plan major expansion of OER efforts #OER $8M = annual salary of 100 Open Librarians and Editors _ go ahead and invest in 100 expert OER curators/editors

__ CUNY, SUNY plan big #OER expansion. The only problem: They’ve gotta find a way to spend $8M in one year. Carl Straumsheim‏ @carlstraumsheim __ https://lnkd.in/es4dvaW _ GOV _ https://lnkd.in/e2ExtqV _ “They’ve gotta find a way to spend $8M in one year” = annual salary of 100 Open Librarians and Editors _ go ahead and invest in expert OER curators/editors

__”Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that the Excelsior Scholarship, a first-of-its-kind in the nation program will provide tuition-free college at New York’s public colleges and universities to families making up to $125,000 a year, and is included in the FY 2018 Budget agreement. The Budget additionally includes $8 million to provide open educational resources, including e-books, to students at SUNY and CUNY colleges to help defray the prohibitive cost of textbooks.” __

New York State OER Budget $8M Open Textbooks CUNY, SUNY plan major expansion of OER efforts: CUNY, SUNY plan major expansion of OER efforts; Staff Directory – The City University of New York; Governor Cuomo Announces First-in-the-Nation Excelsior Scholarship Program Will Provide Tuition-Free College to Middle-Class Families | Governor Andrew M. Cuomo; New York State reaches deal to provide free tuition for SUNY and CUNY students; Agreement reached on NY budget; Senate to vote Sunday night – News – Uticaod – Utica, NY; FY 2018 Executive Budget Briefing Book – BriefingBook.pdf; New York Budget Passes; First-In-The-Nation Tuition-Free College Plan Approved : Political_Revolution; NYS DOB: Governor Cuomo and Legislative Leaders Announce Agreement on FY 2018 State Budget; Mr. Cuomo’s Free* College Plan – The New York Times; openalexis – Open Educational Resources on the frontlines; This Week In Education: DeVos Hires; NY Announces Free College And Free Textbooks : NPR Ed : NPR; Washington Square News : NYU Bookstore to Be Leased to Follett Higher Education

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__Ontario Teachers Sunshine List _ The number of Ontario teachers earning more than $100,000 a year has nearly tripled – As a result, taxpayers were left with a $765-million bill to pay the salaries of the teachers who made the list in 2016, compared with $263 million in 2014. via National Post _ https://lnkd.in/ez3AkfH

Ontario Teachers on Sunshine List nearly tripled, costing taxpayers $765M | National Post: Since Wynne became premier number of teachers on Sunshine List nearly tripled, costing taxpayers $765M | National Post

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__The [Ontario Ministry of Education] announcement commits $879 million in additional funds bringing the total GSN funding for 2017-2018 to just over $23 billion. The additional funding is allocated in part to support the nine successfully negotiated collective agreements, which provide for sector stability and positive learning environments for students, as well as funds for school boards to support their delivery of education programs and services. Today’s announcement of increased funds to support Special Education, Indigenous student achievement, school infrastructure, and student transportation is welcomed. _ OPSBA Brief _ https://lnkd.in/eCv9nZD __ https://lnkd.in/eZ5NWXT

Ontario Students Benefit from Stable Funding – Ontario Public School Boards’ Association OPSBA: Students Benefit from Stable Funding; OPSBASubmission2017-18GSN.pdf; Students Benefit from Stable Funding – Allows Boards to Deliver Education Programs and Services

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__The Eyeopener is Ryerson University’s independent student newspaper, and has been since 1967. [am recalling the ’70s as a Ryerson student – The Eyeopener was always a great read for Ryerson students] __Note: Katie Maitland is a first-year English student at the University of Toronto Scarborough. For her program, tuition averages at about $8,000. Maitland avoids extra costs by buying used textbooks and using Amazon trials for free shipping. She also sells her old books on Kijiji. __

Ryerson University – How much more does living in Toronto cost now compared to the ’90s? | The Eyeopener: How much more does living in Toronto cost now compared to the ’90s? | The Eyeopener; Our story | The Eyeopener

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__To bridge the gap between OER and traditional learning materials, the California State University (CSU) system and VitalSource Technologies LLC® today announced a collaboration designed to increase the adoption and use of OER. “This collaboration is directly in line with our mission to help the creation and delivery of affordable, high quality course materials. Professors and instructors are investing a great amount of time and energy into creating OER,” said Mike Hale, VitalSource’s VP of Education for North America. “This new arrangement gives this quality OER content the same discoverability, ease of use, market reach, and dependable platform that more than 1,000 commercial publishers rely on with VitalSource Bookshelf®.” __

OER adoption made easy through VitalSource and California State University

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Raleigh, N.C. (April 6, 2017) – Open educational resources (OER) have gained popularity over the past decade to provide students with affordable course materials that are easily customizable to meet the needs of individual instructors. However, these…

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OER mini grants from the University System of Maryland: University System of Maryland gives 21 grants to promote open-source textbook use – The Diamondback

University of Calgary, UCalgary University-wide network aims to increase awareness and support for OER: University-wide network aims to increase awareness and support for open education resources | UToday | University of Calgary

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges 44m44 minutes ago

Don Gorges Retweeted SUNY OER Services

SUNY and CUNY will use this funding to target high-enrollment courses, [OpenStax MERLOT BCcampus titles], to maximize student savings #OER

Don Gorges added,

SUNY OER Services @SUNYOERServices

What’s going on with #OER @SUNY, you ask? Read up on support for OER expansion provided by the #excelsiorscholarship https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/04/14/cuny-suny-plan-major-expansion-oer-efforts …

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Replying to @SUNYOERServices @SUNY

“SUNY and CUNY will use this funding to target high-enrollment courses, [OpenStax MERLOT BCcampus titles], to maximize student savings” #OER

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges 23h23 hours ago

__CUNY, SUNY plan major expansion of OER efforts #OER $8M = annual salary of 100 Open Librarians and Editors _ go…https://lnkd.in/ecVSwjQ

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges 23h23 hours ago

Don Gorges Retweeted Carl Straumsheim

#OER They’ve gotta find a way to spend $8M in one year = annual salary of 100 Open Librarians and Editors _ invest in expert OER curation

Don Gorges added,

Carl Straumsheim @carlstraumsheim

CUNY, SUNY plan big #OER expansion. The only problem: They’ve gotta find a way to spend $8M in one year. http://bit.ly/2p3ad3V

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 14

Don Gorges Retweeted Doug Lederman

#OER approx 1M US faculty – 450,000 full time

Don Gorges added,

Doug Lederman @dougledIHE

BREAKING: Faculty pay at 1,022 colleges, collected by AAUP and only @insidehighered: http://ihenow.com/2ovokh8 Check out your institution now.

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 13

Don Gorges Retweeted Michael Geist

#OER #CCSummit

Don Gorges added,

Michael GeistVerified account @mgeist

My contribution to @CIGIonline innovation series: essay on copyright https://www.cigionline.org/articles/how-trolls-are-stifling-innovators-gamers-and-netflix-junkies … + video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzyz48ycEAQ …

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 13

Don Gorges Retweeted Don Gorges

#OER #CCSummit __Don Gorges WordPress _ March 22 to April 08 _ https://dongorges.wordpress.com/ _

Don Gorges added,

Don Gorges @DonGorges

__Don Gorges WordPress _ March 22 to April 08 _ https://dongorges.wordpress.com/ _ #OER #CCSummit

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 13

Don Gorges Retweeted Jamison Miller

#OER – pls add ISBN & full title to spreadsheet to enable confirmation of posted data _ ie. “Biology w/Mindtap Access” = $487.75 _ error?

Don Gorges added,

Jamison Miller @MillerJamison

Here are slides + links to data from our #VCCSNH study on #textbook costs in VA. #openva #goopen @Kim_Grewe #OER http://www.slideshare.net/JamisonMiller/horizons-2017-establishing-the-actual-costs-of-textbooks …

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 13

Replying to @MillerJamison @Kim_Grewe

#OER – pls add ISBN & full title to spreadsheet to enable confirmation of posted data _ ie. “Biology w/Mindtap Access” = $487.75 _ error?

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 12

Don Gorges Retweeted Alek Tarkowski

#OER

Don Gorges added,

Alek Tarkowski @atarkowski

Five ideas about Politics of Open, as I’m wrapping up the #OER17 experience. https://medium.com/@atarkowski/politics-of-open-my-thoughts-for-the-oer17-conference-bd03d716cc8e … #OER #opened

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 10

Replying to @OERdigest @UBC

#OER wondering – is there additional info on the OEP changes made to criteria? – changes are not obvious to me in this screen shot

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 10

__Don Gorges WordPress _ March 22 to April 08 _ https://dongorges.wordpress.com/ _ #OER #CCSummit

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 10

Replying to @DonGorges

Jim Groom – I Don’t Need Permission to be Open | bavatuesdays _ http://bavatuesdays.com/i-dont-need-permission-to-be-open/ … #OER #OER17

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 10

Replying to @DonGorges

‘Good vs Devil’ slide in Dr Rory McGreal video 2 – Comparing Commercial and OER.png _ https://contactnorth.ca/tips-tools/open-educational-resources/videos … #OER #OER17

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 9

__@jimgroom on ‘the tweet onslaught’ from @opencontent @holden _ @brlamb 5Rs #OER #oer17 https://lnkd.in/eteJjmE

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 9

Replying to @holden @jimgroom @opencontent

Brian Lamb @brlamb Hey @opencontent! We love the 5 R’s, so we came up with 5×5 R’s of Ours about learning #OER #oer17 @mkinchina, @IrwinDev

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 8

Replying to @jimgroom @opencontent

I Don’t Need Permission to be Open_ http://bavatuesdays.com/i-dont-need-permission-to-be-open/ … _ this may mean we have to move away from the term open _ #OER eCampusOntario

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 8

Don Gorges Retweeted Jim Groom

#OER

Don Gorges added,

Jim Groom @jimgroom

Finally, a blog post: “I Don’t Need Permission to be Open” http://bavatuesdays.com/i-dont-need-permission-to-be-open/ …

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 8

Replying to @LushDigitalHQ

Features Video/Slide for #CCSummit April 2017 in a Lush, Creative Commons UK Presentation _ #OER @eCampusOntario @creativecommons

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Apr 6

Don Gorges Retweeted Phil Hill

@CengageLearning #OER _ https://bccampus.ca/2017/03/21/pioneering-open-education-through-collaboration-with-bccampus-and-ecampusontario/ … _ “[OER Movement] really is in an acculturation process. . . ” David Porter @eCampusOntario

Don Gorges added,

Phil Hill @PhilOnEdTech

Cengage and OER Podcast Series: Two steps forward and one step back http://ow.ly/bBQN30aBOFC New post at e-Literate

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 27

#OEOSummit #OEORangers #OER notes 09 _ @lpatter10 @fernfeed Thank you for unblocking @eCampusOntario _ why I was blocked this morning?

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 27

#OEOSummit #OEORangers #OER notes 08 _ it’s odd to find I’m being blocked from following @eCampusOntario – @lpatter10 @fernfeed pls fix it

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 27

#OEOSummit #OEORangers #OER notes 07 _ it’s weird to find I’m being blocked from following @eCampusOntario – Someone pls ask them to fix it

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 27

#OEOSummit #OEORangers #OER notes 06 _ it’s weird to find that I’m being blocked from following @eCampusOntario _ Who can fix that?

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 27

#OEOSummit #OEORangers #OER notes 05 _ oops, someone has blocked me from following @eCampusOntario _ that’s strange – can someone fix that?

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 27

@eCampusOntario #OEOSummit #OEORangers #OER notes 04_ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/App_Content/Resource/docs/03a38a56-a05e-4523-aff4-7ac79764cee8/Open%20Textbooks%20Print%20on%20Demand%20RFP%20FINALdocx.pdf …

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 27

@eCampusOntario #OEOSummit #OEORangers #OER notes 03_ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/App_Content/Resource/docs/2e42dfa1-457a-44e4-87cb-1bbaeedeba15/eCO%20EOI%20Open%20Publishing%20Infrastructure%20EN.pdf …

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 27

@eCampusOntario #OEOSummit #OEORangers #OER notes 02_ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/news/ecampusontario-announces-open-textbook-library-for-ontario-post-secondary-education …

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 27

@eCampusOntario #OEOSummit #OEORangers #OER notes 01_ https://bccampus.ca/2017/03/21/pioneering-open-education-through-collaboration-with-bccampus-and-ecampusontario/ …

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 26

Replying to @opencontent

#OEOSummit #OEORangers _ @AlysonIndrunas of @LumenLearning offers #OER insights Q&A suggestions for @BCcampus @eCampusOntario @opencontent

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 26

Replying to @LaurenmAnstey

pls see if @eCampusOntario opts for #OEORangers at #OEOSummit __ aka #OER Rangers #OpenRanger

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 25

Replying to @DonGorges

_ https://marketbrief.edweek.org/marketplace-k-12/open-ed-provider-steps-englishlanguage-arts-market/ … _ #OEORangers #OER @BCcampus @eCampusOntario #OEOSummit @openupresources @OpenStax

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 25

Replying to @DonGorges

_ https://marketbrief.edweek.org/marketplace-k-12/open-ed-provider-steps-englishlanguage-arts-market/ … _ http://www.pcmag.com/commentary/346309/free-textbooks-from-rice-openstax-too-good-to-be-true … _ #OEORangers #OER @BCcampus @eCampusOntario #OEOSummit @openupresources @OpenStax

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 25

THX for encouraging #OEORangers to ask questions about #OER Business Models @BCcampus @eCampusOntario #OEOSummit @openupresources @OpenStax

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 25

Replying to @DonGorges

#OEORangers @BCcampus @eCampusOntario #OEOSummit #OER _ http://www.algonquincollege.com/etexts/files/2015/04/eText-at-Algonquin-Digital-Solution.pdf … _ https://teachonline.ca/sites/default/files/pdfs/etextstory.pdf … _ https://www.pearson.com/content/dam/one-dot-com/one-dot-com/global/standalone/annual-report-16/01_Pearson_AR16_FULL.pdf …

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 25

THX for encouraging #OEORangers to ask questions @BCcampus @eCampusOntario #OEOSummit #OER _eText Initiative Algonquin College Strategic Man

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 25

Pearson Reports _ John Fallon total remuneration rose from £1.26m in 2015 to £1.5m in 2016 _ https://www.pearson.com/content/dam/one-dot-com/one-dot-com/global/standalone/annual-report-16/01_Pearson_AR16_FULL.pdf … _ #OER

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 24

Replying to @thatpsychprof

interesting ways The Pencil Metaphor has been adapted 4 times over 5 yrs – see typo Slide 28 credit Lindy McKeown link #OER

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 21

Replying to @BCcampus

THX to @BCcampus for encouraging all #OEORangers to review BC #OER Textbooks & be prepared to ask questions @eCampusOntario #OEOSummit

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 19

__Welcome BCcampus to @eCampusOntario on Mar 27 #OEOSummit #OER speaker series with Wiley, DeRosa, Jhangiani, Coolid…https://lnkd.in/eUZ3hFB

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 19

Seeking Opportunities to connect the dots bridging academia and industry? @OCEinnovation pls see @eCampusOntario EOI & RFP #OER #OEOSummit

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 16

Replying to @lpatter10

@eCampusOntario #OER @SFU Info+specs via BCcampus Open Textbook PoD Partner – SFU Document Solutions _ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject= …

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 13

Replying to @txtbks

NDLA- the Norwegian Digital Learning Arena presented at OECD Paris Jan 2015 _ https://www.slideshare.net/ivindHines1/ndla-oecd-jan-2015?related=1OECD … _ @txtbks @ndla_no #OER #OEGlobal

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 6

Replying to @DonGorges

#OER #oeglobal

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 6

#OER #oeglobal Open Education Global Conference _ #SXSWedu Conference & Festival – This week there are 2 distinct Co…https://lnkd.in/eDTRzkh

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 6

Replying to @joeranEN

@thatpsychprof #OER #OEGlobal http://thatpsychprof.com/pragmatism-vs-idealism-and-the-identity-crisis-of-oer-advocacy/ … blog post is a preview of some of the ideas I will discuss during my talk

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 5

Replying to @actualham

#OEGlobal #OER link _ https://dongorges.wordpress.com/2016/10/10/fact-checking-how-much-do-college-students-actually-pay-for-textbooks-2015-2016-phil-hill/ … _

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 5

Replying to @matthematician

@cmuirmath @matthematician @actualham #OER #OEGlobal _ another suggestion _ https://dongorges.wordpress.com/2016/10/10/fact-checking-how-much-do-college-students-actually-pay-for-textbooks-2015-2016-phil-hill/ …

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 4

Replying to @OERdigest @NJPIRGStudents

Details about the #OER Courseware offered by each $1000 Grant Recipient _ https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/news/2017/02/Open%20and%20Affordable%20Textbook%20Project%20Grant%20Recipients.pdf … … _

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Mar 1

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Q&A: CC Ryan Merkley on CC Search _ http://www.shareable.net/blog/qa-creative-commons-ceo-ryan-merkley-on-new-cc-search-feature … _ @Downes @OERdigest #OER @BCcampus @eCampusOntario @creativecommons

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Replying to @ryanmerkley @catjohnson

Help Creators of CC works identify and add missing data – Enable indexing & discovery of online CC work via Google

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Feb 16

@DonGorges Archive of LinkedIn Posts and Links December 12 to February 15 _ https://dongorges.wordpress.com/2017/02/15/don-gorges-archive-of-linkedin-posts-and-links-december-12-to-february-15/ … _ @ecampusontario #OER

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges Feb 9

@eCampusOntario announced Open Education and New Program Development Initiatives _ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/Content/open-content-funding … _ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/COntent/program-development-funding … _ #OER

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Don Gorges‏ @DonGorges 11 Sep 2016

The Hewlett Foundation has invested $190 million in #OER since 2000 _ @Hewlett_Found @HFBarbaraChow @tjbliss _ http://oeru.org/news/investing-in-the-future-of-open-educational-resources/ …

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Visual Communications Marketing Copyright Open Education Design Thinking

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__Jim Groom faces ‘the tweet onslaught‘ from David Wiley Mike Caulfield

Jim Groom‏ @jimgroom Apr 5

@opencontent – #ds106 never used official OER, but strange to suggest because of that it’s not open pedagogy. Seems open eaten by definitions.

4/ @holden @cogdog @brlamb @jimgroom What does open mean when it modifies pedagogy? That some other word doesn’t already mean when it does?

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__Jim Groom – I Don’t Need Permission to be Open _ http://bavatuesdays.com/i-dont-need-permission-to-be-open/ _

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Perspectives

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Jenni Hayman Program Manager at eCampusOntario.

Now Program Manager at eCampusOntario

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Naza Djafarova Director, Digital Educational Strategies, The Chang, Ryerson University

Audrey Watters

This talk was presented at Coventry University as part of my visiting fellowship at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab

Every year since 2010, I’ve undertaken a fairly massive project in which I’ve reviewed the previous twelve months’ education and technology news in order to write ten articles covering “the top ed-tech trends.” This is how I spend my November and December – researching and writing a series that usually tops out at about 75,000 words – which I didn’t realize until print copies were made for my visit here is about 240 pages.

Now, all those words and pages make this quite a different undertaking than most year-in-review stories, than much of the “happy new year” clickbait that tend to offer a short, bulleted list of half a dozen or so technologies that are new enough or cool enough to hype with headlines like “these are the six tools poised to revolutionize education.” To be honest, these sorts of articles are partly why I undertake this project – although each year, when I’m about 15,000 words in, I do ask myself “why am I doing this?!” (This talk will hopefully serve as an explanation for you and a nice reminder for me.)

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Vicki Saunders Founder, SheEO

Congratulations to Lisa M. Lyons Johnston for winning the Prestigious Bologna Book Prize for Best Children’s Publisher in North America. Incredible!

April 4, 2017 — Kids Can Press, the Toronto-based children’s book publisher and a division of Corus Entertainment, has been named Children’s Publisher of the Year in North America at the annual Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

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Naza Djafarova Director, Digital Educational Strategies, The Chang, Ryerson University

The world’s top experts in the fields of online learning Tony Bates and Curt Bonk in Toronto. Thank you Dr. Marie Bountrogianni .

__nice shot – it’s great to see you folks – am following #ChangSchoolTalks this morning

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__Phil Hill – Cengage and OER Podcast Series __ Phil Hill advice to Cengage is linked to following David Wiley’s thinking about open __”kudos [Cengage] once again for working to understand and to promote OER for the good of the community.” _ Great podcast for mainstream educators _ http://www.cengage.com/oer __ David’s blog -” I feel like words should mean something. Especially the word “open.” “__ https://lnkd.in/e8ZQtHs

__The Journey to OER is a six-part podcast series produced by Cengage that features interviews with professors and instructional designers _ Episode 1: What is OER and what’s driving interest. Of the many definitions of OER, which one’s correct? Hear what OER means—straight from instructors—and learn what’s driving the interest in OER across higher ed. _ http://www.cengage.com/oer _

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__Why Copyright Matters by Jean-François Seguin April 4, 2017 A recent copyright debate reminds photographers to protect their work. In Feb. more than 200 photographers, advertising and fashion professionals, members of CAPIC (Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators) and students gathered at Dawson College in Montreal to discuss and debate how important it is to retain their copyright and control the use of their images __

__Canadian Copyright educational resources _ Canadian Copyright Law by Lesley Ellen Harris _ https://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-Copyright-Lesley-Ellen-Harris/dp/1118078519 _ A 16 lesson eTutorial on Canadian copyright law _ http://www.copyrightlaws.com/canadian/syllabus-for-canadian-copyright-law/

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__ If High School and College Textbooks Were Honest – Honest Ads – YouTube __ The 1041% Textbooks Price Increase Graph via OEOSummit Keynote by Rajiv Jhangiani & Robin DeRosa _

__We lack details to identify which if any Textbooks have increased price by 1041% since 1977 i.e $50 x 1041% = $521 __ Appreciate your input, references, sources of visuals to create this Set of Textbooks – those where prices increased 1041% _

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__The Textbook Remix, The open educational resources movement is redefining the concept of online textbooks, University Affairs By SUZANNE BOWNESS | April 4, 2017 _ ‘OER awareness’ article, well done – Perhaps Suzanne will continue researching the transformation from analog to digital in educational publishing / creative sector – certainly there are many public-private-creative sector perspectives that a writer could bring into the discussion [i.e. e-Textbooks Initiative at Algonquin College] — ‘The Textbook Remix Sprint’ _recall the series of articles in 2014 about BCcampus’ first book sprint to create a first year Geography open textbook . . . in four days. _ https://lnkd.in/eiNpQyB _

Clint Lalonde Manager, Educational Technology, BCcampus & Associate Faculty, School of Education & Technology, Royal Roads University

Great article in University Affairs about the #OER movement in Canada with Rajiv Jhangiani Amanda Coolidge Arthur Green David Porter Paul Stacey

__A well written / researched ‘OER awareness’ article by Suzanne Bowness, thanks, Clint. Readers likely recall the series of articles you wrote in 2014 about BCcampus’ first book sprint to create a first year Geography open textbook…. in four days. _ https://open.bccampus.ca/2014/06/14/post-sprint-bc-in-a-global-context/ _ Perhaps Suzanne will continue her research about the transformation from analog to digital in educational publishing – certainly there are many public-private-creative sector perspectives that a writer could bring into the discussion [i.e. e-Textbooks Initiative at Algonquin College]

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Transforming Our Libraries from Analog to Digital: A 2020 Vision

By 2020, we can build a collaborative digital library collection and circulation system in which thousands of libraries unlock their analog collections for a new generation of learners, enabling free, long-term, public access to knowledge.

2017 04 03

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__The CC Global Summit schedule is now available _ Twitter hashtag #CCSummit via Creative Commons‏ @creativecommons, TAGS: #CCSummit, The CC Global Summit, The CC Global Summit Toronto 2017, The 2017 CC Global Summit, The Creative Commons 2017 Global Summit, The Creative Commons Global Summit 2017, The 2017 Creative Commons Global Summit _

Sessions and Speakers

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2017 04 03

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__Deb Matthews, Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development, was at George Brown College in Toronto today to announce the $50-million investment in honour of the college system’s 50th anniversary. The investment will support colleges in undertaking major initiatives that enhance student learning, such as the purchase of specialized software for teaching, new lab and shop equipment and technology to modernize existing classrooms and labs, facility retrofits, and other projects. _ https://news.ontario.ca/maesd/en/2017/04/ontario-marks-50th-anniversary-of-college-system.html

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__David Wiley “We examined the responses of 676 students and 573 faculty from a large private university (Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah) to understand the real impact of textbooks costs to students and how they are dealing with this ongoing problem.” – these are his Conclusions and Questions asked in David Wiley’s study of BYU Perceptions of Textbook Costs _ Cost-Focused OER Research lacks specific identification and examples of Textbooks used __ Add visual communication to support opinions and conclusions _ moved by the Open Movement’s narrow focus on free textbooks ?? _

__#OER Research requires identification of the Textbooks referenced in the Q&A to enable review and own analysis of textbooks used OpenStax / Pearson / Open-Hybrid eText ?? Add visual communication into discussions, Perceptions and Conclusions

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Sunshine List: Toronto university presidents, professors well represented on Sunshine List

Eight per cent of names on this year’s Sunshine List have the titles of professor or associate professor. (The Canadian Press)

Ontario’s 2016 Sunshine List Public Sector Salary disclosure: Public sector salary disclosure 2016: all sectors and seconded employees | Ontario.ca; Sunshine List reveals record 123,410 public servants made $100K or more last year | Toronto Star; Sunshine List reveals Ontario’s public sector salaries – Toronto – CBC News; Sunshine List: Toronto university presidents, professors well represented on Sunshine List – Toronto – CBC News

via BC Public Sector Salaries – Vancouver Sun

Public Sector Salaries – Vancouver Sun

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__Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson, BC Gov News, BC Open Textbook Project, BCcampus, The B.C. Open Textbook Project _ The Province is providing $250,000 to continue to support the open education work being done in British Columbia through the Open Textbook Project. Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson made the announcement today during Open Education Week, which aims to raise awareness about free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone. _ https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017AVED0036-000944

Funding boosts the BC Open Textbook Project | BCcampus https://bccampus.ca/2017/03/30/funding-boosts-the-bc-open-textbook-project/ https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017AVED0036-000944

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__SXD Kickstart Pitch: Northern & Rural Access _ A recent report by the Ontario Ministry of Education showed more than 70 percent of Ontario schools don’t have the recommended minimum bandwidth capacity of 1Mbps per student. The pilot program took aim at the top 20 Toronto schools most in need of an upgrade in order to target that issue. _ http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/03/30/rogers-provides-20-toronto-schools-gigabit-internet-new-pilot-program/ _ SXD Kickstart Pitch: Northern & Rural Access #sxd | Giulia Forsythe | Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/33422392275/

@eCampusOntario Mar 13 We are excited to announce the development of the SXD Lab, Canada’s first educational student driven innovation lab #SXD _ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/Content/sxd-kickstart _

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__Sony World Photography Awards _ 2017 Winners & Shortlist | World Photography Organisation _ https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/winners-galleries/2017 _

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Harvey P. Weingarten — What is Academic Quality?

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How does one determine quality in a postsecondary institution or system? Very simple. One determines whether the college or university graduates students with the knowledge, skills and competencies the institution says the students need and will acquire if they attend that institution. High quality is achieved if graduates have the advertised attributes. Low quality is when they do not.

Here’s a concrete example: In 2013, Max Blouw, president of Wilfrid Laurier University, wrote in the Globe and Mail that “when a university graduate [of an Ontario university] is recruited, the employer has in their hire an exceptional communicator, an adept researcher, a problem solver and a critical thinker.” This is what is advertised and, frankly, what respectable postsecondary leaders say students need and will get at their institution. What is quality? The degree to which these advertised skills and attributes are achieved.

A lot of measurement questions remain. Next week my blog will report on an international gathering HEQCO is sponsoring in May on how to best measure academic quality.

2017 03 28

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A Resurgent Publisher! Part 1 Published on January 19, 2017 David Harris Editor In Chief, OpenStax, Rice University _ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/resurgent-publisher-david-harris

It’s Always Darkest Before Dawn Part 2 Published on February 2, 2017 David Harris Editor In Chief, OpenStax, Rice University _ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/resurgent-publisher-its-always-darkest-before-dawn-part-david-harris

Pricing Part 3 Published on February 21, 2017 David Harris Editor In Chief, OpenStax, Rice University _ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/resurgent-publisher-pricing-part-3-david-harris

Final Strategies for Renewal Part 4 Published on March 27, 2017 David Harris Editor In Chief, OpenStax, Rice University _ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-4-resurgent-final-strategies-renewal-david-harris

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__”Will one of these emergent publishers appear? I believe so, and those of us in the OER realm will be there to support you every step of the way. In fact, some publishers are making steps to this transformation.” __ Part 5? Suggest collaborating on a portfolio of windows-pages with Publishers Creatives Staff / to Review Each Showing the Steps Made and raise awareness of transformation to support _

2017 03 29

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Toronto, March 28, 2017 – The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) and Savoir-faire Linux Inc. have joined together to deliver the Small Business Digitization Initiative (SBDI). With this initiative being piloted in Ottawa, Toronto and North Bay, up to one hundred Ontario youth between the ages of twenty to twenty-nine will have the opportunity to receive twenty-four weeks of free training with the aim of transforming them into future business digitization leaders. This pilot initiative started its first class in Ottawa on January 23rd, 2017. Over the next six months, cohorts will be starting in North Bay and Toronto in March, and in Toronto and Ottawa in April. _ https://lnkd.in/ekjFu5J _ The Small Business Digitization Initiative (SBDI) is a training program _ https://lnkd.in/e_uGedt _

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__Pearson chief executive John Fallon total remuneration rose from £1.26m in 2015 to £1.5m last year, even as the educational publisher slumped to its biggest ever loss and its shares fell to a seven-year low. However the spokesman said the board was freezing the chief executive’s base pay for 2017, the second year running, and would cut his long-term performance-related share award to reflect Pearson’s lower long-term profit guidance. The Financial Times _ https://lnkd.in/ezvCiET _

Pre-tax losses spiralled from £433m in 2015 to a record £2.6bn, including a £2.5bn [non-cash] write-off of goodwill dating back to Pearson’s acquisitions of US education business National Computer Services and the publisher Simon & Schuster at the turn of the century. Mr Fallon said that after a “challenging” year the company is looking ahead to operating profit of between £570m to £630m in 2017. _ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/02/24/pearson-sell-publishing-stake-losses-deepen/ _ 24 February 2017 Telegraph

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__The Power of Explaining to Others by Michael Caulfield – is Michael Feldstein’s Recommended Reading __ I agree “Mike Caulfield is one [-] truly interesting, deep-thinking bloggers about educational technology in higher ed. If you don’t follow his blog, you should.” _ https://lnkd.in/e6bUBB6 _ https://lnkd.in/epmU7Uq _

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OEP and open pedagogy: #OEGlobal reflections
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__#OEORangers @eCampusOntario #OEOSummit @BCcampus #OER __ Catherine Cronin, OEP Open Pedagogy, #OEGlobal _

_ This post is a summary of some my reflections following the 3-day OE Global conference, particularly with respect to OEP and open pedagogy.

OEP and open pedagogy

For some time now I’ve been paying attention not just to the nature of the work being done by many in the global open education community, but also to differences in emphasis across different sectors and regions. For example, much foundational work in open textbooks is rooted in and continues in North America (e.g. BCcampus Open Textbook project and Z-Degree programmes). More recently, a flourishing movement has emerged around open pedagogy (check out #openped) led by innovative educators such as Robin deRosa, Karen Cangialosi, Scott Robison, Rajiv Jhangiani, David Wiley, and others.

Catherine Cronin, OEP Open Pedagogy, #OEGlobal _ https://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/oeglobal-reflections/
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https://twitter.com/catherinecronin/status/844657065213743105
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Posted on March 23, 2017 by Don Gorges

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OEP and open pedagogy: #OEGlobal reflections
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__#OEORangers @eCampusOntario #OEOSummit @BCcampus #OER __ Catherine Cronin, OEP Open Pedagogy, #OEGlobal _

_ This post is a summary of some my reflections following the 3-day OE Global conference, particularly with respect to OEP and open pedagogy.

OEP and open pedagogy

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__After announcing in February that it would take actions to reduce costs in 2017 following a disappointing 2016, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has begun laying off staffers in its educational and trade divisions. In a statement, the company confirmed that it “initiated organizational changes last week to help us streamline our business process.” The statement continued: “Such changes always require difficult decisions regarding roles and responsibilities of our talented colleagues.” __

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Announces Full Year 2016 Results
_ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/houghton-mifflin-harcourt-announces-full-121200299.html _ February 23, 2017

Financial Highlight – Net cash provided by operating activities for the year ended Dec. 31, 2016 was $144 million as compared with $348 million for the same period in 2015. For the full year ended Dec. 31, 2016, free cash flow was a usage of $86 million compared to a positive free cash flow of $162 million in 2015

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Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) 1,136 followers 6h

Inspiring Unfettered Innovation is ICTC’s most recent policy paper examining the impacts of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the emerging technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that will have a significant impact on our society, our economy and our everyday lives. Can now be read in full today!

Fourth Industrial Revolution: Inspiring Unfettered Innovation

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__The Problem With Facts by Tim Harford . . . But Curiosity Is the Cure for Misinformation by Michael Caulfield _ https://lnkd.in/eawi96n _ _ https://lnkd.in/e33HZDG _

Tim Hartford : We journalists and policy wonks can’t force anyone to pay attention to the facts. We have to find a way to make people want to seek them out. Curiosity is the seed from which sensible democratic decisions can grow. It seems to be one of the only cures for politically motivated reasoning but it’s also, into the bargain, the cure for a society where most people just don’t pay attention to the news because they find it boring or confusing.

Michael Caulfield : But this is what wiki does, as opposed to blogging. It puts you in a learning mode vs. an argumentative mode. You can feel it when it happens, physically, when it lets down the rhetorical defenses you’ve set up. Ward used to call it Egoless Wiki. When people let down defenses enough to get there, to delight in the investigation more than the result, that’s when you’re in the zone. And I think it correlates with Tim’s point — that to have truth win we can’t fight for truth — we have to fight for curiosity and a bit of egolessness. We have to ask people not to argue their point, but to tell us what they know. In the end that’s the only thing that that’s going to save us.

Michael Caulfield Misinformation May Be the Disease But Curiosity Is the Cure: Misinformation May Be the Disease, But Curiosity Is the Cure | Hapgood; Tim Harford — Article — The Problem With Facts; Doubt Versus a Bayesian Outlook | Hapgood

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__Welcome BCcampus to eCampusOntario on Mar 27 #OEOSummit speaker series with David Wiley, Robin DeRosa, Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani, Amanda Coolidge, Clint Lalonde, Rebus Open Textbook Community and CC friends _ http://onoersummit.com/

__eCampusOntario has entered into an agreement with BCcampus, British Columbia’s online learning agency. We will “clone and rebrand for Ontario” the existing open textbook site operating in British Columbia to provide a starter library and deployment system that will house over 150 peer-reviewed open textbooks. Along with the open textbook library, Ontario higher education users will also be able to participate in the peer review system. The initial cloned system will be available in May 2017. __ eCampusOntario is seeking expressions of interest from Ontario post-secondary institutions to design and assemble a prototype open education publishing infrastructure to provide system capacity and support a growing network of Ontario faculty and instructional developers who will begin to design, develop and deploy interactive open educational resources (OER) for teaching and learning __ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/App_Content/Resource/docs/2e42dfa1-457a-44e4-87cb-1bbaeedeba15/eCO%20EOI%20Open%20Publishing%20Infrastructure%20EN.pdf

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__Ottawa is not included in Worlds Top 10 Tech Hubs To Live and Work In – But does Ottawa deserve a shout out when we are talking global tech hubs? AB-SO-LUTELY, according to Invest Ottawa’s new talent attraction campaign called “Work in Ottawa,” showcasing the city’s top talent and the exciting lives they lead, working in one of Ottawa’s 1700 technologies companies. __

Rideau Canal Ottawa – Mark Hogan Photography Ottawa, Canada via Getty Images

investottawa.ca

Top 10 Tech hubs To Live and Work In | Focus by Expert Market

Canada’s Best Tech Hubs To Live and Work In | Expert Market

Ottawa Crowned Canada's Top Tech Hub – Invest Ottawa

OTTAWA IS A TECH HUB – DEAL WITH IT – Invest Ottawa

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__Ontario has announced that it will invest $2.6M to help project teams across the province develop new and innovative approaches to online and technology-enabled learning. 45 Projects listed _ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/Content/research–innovation-funding

Whether you’re choosing spaghetti sauce or a life partner, making decisions can be paralyzing. This hour, TED speakers explore how we make the choices we make, and how we learn to live with them.

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Louis Fishauf Creative director and Graphic Designer 5d

I’m very happy to have one of my collages featured (alongside some of my favourite artists) in Terry Hemphill’s article on “Illustration Styles of the Past 30 Years” in this week’s issue of Adobe Create Magazine. Thanks Terry and Terri Stone

Winnie Czulinski

Congrats, Louis! Coincidentally, this very evening I had taken some 30-year-old issues of ‘Studio’ Magazine (Canada’s late graphic arts mag) out of storage. Great to remember those times, and to live through the early days of digital art – so exciting to see what a top traditionally-trained designer could do with it. And wonderful to see you continue to be (deservedly) recognized.

__eCampusOntario launches SXD Labs

__eCampusOntario Challenge Questions about SXD Lab _ see Students’ Ideas in photos posted _ https://twitter.com/lpatter10/status/841350332684865537

@ecampusontario hosting #OEORangers _ http://onoersummit.com/

Speakers include David Wiley @acoolidge @clintlalonde @thatpsychprof @actualham @hughmcguire at the first Open Education Ontario summit March 27

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Julie Armstrong Studio Production Manager at Altice USA

A Look Back: Adobe Type & 30 Years of Illustrator

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It’s fitting to talk about Adobe Illustrator’s 30th anniversary with two people who have been the bedrock of the Adobe Type team for the last 30 years: our Principal Type Designer Robert Slimbach, who celebrated his 30th anniversary at Adobe at the start of this month, and David Lemon, who retired last month after being with Adobe Type for just over 30 years as well.

2017 03 10

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__NDLA Workflow Gears and Market – the Norwegian Digital Learning Arena presented 2015 Oivind Hoines _ Suppliers from all levels are involved NDLA Budget allocated 33% for NDLA Editorial and Production Staff _ 66% “Private companies produce quality assessed learning resources” __ Continuous improvement, revised art to working engineering specs in a creative workflow 🙂

__NDLA- the Norwegian Digital Learning Arena presented at OECD Paris Jan 2015 _ https://www.slideshare.net/ivindHines1/ndla-oecd-jan-2015?related=1OECD _ #OER #OEGlobal

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__Patrick McCray in Boston: Monday, April 10, 2017 Re-Wiring Art: Engineers, Artists, and the Forging of a New Creative Culture _ http://sts-program.mit.edu/event/colloquium-speaker-series-re-wiring-art-engineers-artists-forging-new-creative-culture/

__ Patrick McCray gave a talk titled “Re-Wiring Art & Technology in the 1960s” based on the research he is conducting for a forthcoming book. During the 1960s, artists and engineers came together in a series of formal collaborations. Besides creating interesting artistic works, these efforts also built an infrastructure for future art & technology collaborations and helped forge a new creative culture. _

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The history of technology The Great White Innovator Patrick McCray, Art Rewired: Engineering a New Creative Culture: Patrick McCray | Leaping Robot Blog | Patrick McCray; Patrick McCray; W. Patrick McCray | Department of History, UC Santa Barbara; W Patrick McCray | Aeon; Hack Education on Twitter: “HEWN, No. 204 https://t.co/HasG92MDz0”; Detroit’s Foreclosure Crisis and the Need for ‘Information Justice’ – CityLab; Meet Silicon Valley’s Secretive Alt-Right Followers | Mother Jones; Google’s “featured snippets” and Uber’s self-driving slip-ups point to a problem for the future of A.I.; White House Echoes Tech: ‘Move Fast and Break Things’ – The New York Times; Patrick McCray – Most of the time, innovators don’t move fast and break things | Aeon Essays; HEWN, No. 204; http://tinyletter.com/audreywatters/letters/hewn-no-204; Hack Education (@hackeducation) | Twitter; Patrick McCray: Re-Wiring Art & Technology in the 1960s – YouTube; Rocketeer Frank Malina’s Life as an Artist – IEEE Spectrum; COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER SERIES: Re-Wiring Art: Engineers, Artists, and the Forging of a New Creative Culture – MIT STS; #DASER: Art & Science Integration (with images, tweets) · CPNAS · Storify; march2016_daser.pdf; Patrick McCray, Re-Wiring Art: Artists, Engineers, & New Creative Cultures, DASER – Google Search

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__At Montreal’s Concordia University, [-] poets realized that the Centre for Expanded Poetics had been scanning their books and posting them to its web page without their permission. “I find it distressing,” said Alana Wilcox, editorial director at Toronto’s Coach House Books, the publisher of two of the books. “Poets make so little money … making their work available for free on a public website feels very disrespectful. … These aren’t tenured professors with salaries; these are poets who are scraping by, getting no compensation for their hard work.” __

Concordia University caught on the wrong side of copyright – The Globe and Mail: Concordia University caught on the wrong side of copyright – The Globe and Mail; Concordia University caught on the wrong side of copyright – The Globe and Mail; Who is on the Wrong Side?: Why the Copyright Mistake at Concordia Highlights the Problems with Collective Licensing – Michael Geist; Yes We Scan: Why Concordia Should Not Shelve Its Book Scanner – Michael Geist

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__”The purpose of this [5Rs Open Pedagogy Library] is to provide a list of concrete examples of how open pedagogy, as we define it, is implemented in the real world” _ David Wiley’s Open Education Group _ “For our purposes, we define open pedagogy as the set of teaching and learning practices only practical in the context of the 5R permissions characteristic of open educational resources.” – the 5Rs criteria via Wiley _ http://opencontent.org/definition/ _ http://openedgroup.org/openpedagogy _

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__OER17: The Politics of Open OER17 presents an opportunity for open practitioners, activists, educators and policy makers to come together as a community to reflect on ‘The Politics of Open’. Resource for London UK April 2017 _ https://oer17.oerconf.org/ _

__Communicating “Open” by Nicole Allen: The session will offer a crash course on basic advocacy communications, providing advice and examples to help OER advocates sharpen their communications skills. Topics covered will include: What is advocacy communication? Proactive vs. reactive communication strategies Crafting and delivering a compelling message Getting people to understand what “open” means Defending against “openwashing” Tips and lessons learned Examples from the field Nicole Allen’s Presentations on SlideShare _ https://www.slideshare.net/txtbks/presentations _

__Karyn Filiatrault – PSR Brokerage – “Karyn Filiatrault is anything but a traditional Realtor. Formally a Discovery Channel documentary producer, she left to fill a much foreseen need in the Toronto Real Estate market. What’s that you ask? Realness for one. Because seriously, who can deal these days with a stiff suit? Secondly, she brings creativity. Karyn employs the experience of her former career by using professional cinematographers, hand-picked acting talent, and a story-boarded script to sell homes. ” _ http://www.psrbrokerage.com/agents/karyn-filiatrault/ _ Karyn Filiatrault’s Videos _ https://vimeo.com/homesweetkaryn/videos _ __ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-penthouse-ad-1.4017094

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__OpenStax is the principal BNED Open Education Resources OER.partner _ http://www.bnedcourseware.com/ _

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__OE Global conference current OER Research from the OER Research Fellows and John Hilton showing Student Survey data and opinions “Students perceive profs who use #OER as more kind, creative & encouraging. Just because my prof doesn’t make me choose between food and learning?” #oer #oeglobal @johnhiltoniii

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__Sophie Grégoire Trudeau’s Instagram post for International Women’s Day _”Together, we can create a movement that inspires more men to join the fight to build a better tomorrow with equal rights & opportunities for everyone… because #EqualityMatters.” __

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__Just take a look at last year’s Tech Madness winner, Cengage Learning. The company has spent years in the edtech industry, and it is currently in the transitionary period between textbook and digital platforms. _ BostInno Interview with Cengage, Michael Hansen, Tech Madness Winner _ http://bostinno.streetwise.co/all-series/where-are-they-now-2016-tech-madness-winner-cengage/ _

Cengage Learning, Tech Madness Winner, BostInno, Cengage, Michael Hansen http://bostinno.streetwise.co/all-series/where-are-they-now-2016-tech-madness-winner-cengage/ http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2016/03/02/cengage-continues-down-edtech-path-unveils-remedial-math-software/# http://bostinno.streetwise.co/all-series/cengage-learning-is-the-winner-of-bostinnos-3rd-annual-tech-madness/

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__[-] there has been more growth as the trend toward digital education continues. For example, Cengage is number 1 in market share for the Australian higher-ed market, and local versions of MindTap are being created to meet student demands. [Cengage MindTap ACE w/ OER] Staff: Over the course of FY 17, Cengage’s U.S. headcount grew by 7%. The product and tech headcount grew by 13%. There are currently 60 open spots on the technology side in Boston. Product Growth: The company saw strong growth in their digital courseware with a 10% increase over last year in student activations during the first 3 quarters of FY 17. Standalone digital sales are up 16% year-to-date. Also, MindTap, the company’s flagship digital learning platform, grew almost 38% year-over-year in terms of units and revenue.

NM: You guys acquired WebAssign, can you tell me a little more about that? What drove that decision and what you guys hope to get out of it? [-] WebAssign had spotted another very interesting collaboration with OpenStax, which is a provider of open educational resources. They basically go out and curate resources that are available for free on the internet. They have developed a product together with OpenStax and that was something that we see is a significant opportunity for us as well. Because we believe that open educational resources are a part of the landscape in education right, and for some it’s actually very appropriate to have open educational resources as part of the digital solution.

Cengage Learning, Tech Madness Winner, BostInno, Cengage, Michael Hansen: Revenue Update on Cengage Learning 2016 Tech Madness Winner | BostInno; Cengage Continues Down Edtech Path, Unveils Remedial Math Software | Xconomy; Cengage Learning Is the Winner of BostInno’s 3rd Annual Tech Madness | BostInno

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#OER #oeglobal Open Education Global Conference _ #SXSWedu Conference & Festival – This week there are 2 distinct Communities of Educators in Austin and in Cape Town

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__Open and Affordable Textbooks (OAT) Project at Rutgers University | Rutgers University Libraries _ http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/open-textbooks _

__Good to know more details in each case, suggest adding links to enable Students to review differences [an example is free online OpenStax Intro to Psych]. And suggest showing assumed changes in Bookstore -$ sales revenue as a % of students savings _ https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/news/2017/02/Open%20and%20Affordable%20Textbook%20Project%20Grant%20Recipients.pdf

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Sculpture “What You See Might Not Be Real” – Farting Bull – Chinese artist Chen Wenling _ “The strong and farting bull represents Wall Street (in Chinese slang, to fart mean to bluff or lie). And the man being shoved into the wall is Bernard Madoff who was sentenced to 150 years in prison because of Ponzi schemer. _ http://thedesigninspiration.com/articles/amazing-bull-fart-sculpture-by-chen-wenling/ _

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__Open Education: The Moral, Business & Policy Case for OER | EDEN _ http://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/open-education-the-moral-business-policy-case-for-oer/ _ Lecturer: Cable Green, Director of Open Education, Creative Commons Monday, 27 March 2017

GOING OPEN: The Case for OER & Open Policies _ https://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/going-open Open Education: The Business & Policy Case for OER featuring Dr. Cable Green – YouTube _ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI6ijdQ81Ik Updated Keynote Slides (November, 2014) _ https://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/updated-keynote-slides-october-2014?next_slideshow=1 _

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__OER’s Road Ahead is Paved with Publisher Platforms By Steven Bell on February 9, 2017 _”Academic librarians are pleased with the progress they’ve made in leading their campuses to recognize the value of Open Educational Resources (OER). Now publishers are responding to OER with new learning platforms. It may be time for a new strategy.” _ http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2017/02/opinion/steven-bell/oers-road-ahead-is-paved-with-publisher-platforms-from-the-bell-tower/#_ tags: Barnes & Noble BNED courseware platform, Cengage MindTap ACE OER-Based Solution for Higher Education, includED, OER, Steven Bell Associate University Librarian Temple University

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__Key players in the Open Education movement [from BCcampus ] will be providing Open Education Ontario Summit attendees [ two representatives from each of the Ontario colleges and universities] with the latest information on the state of Open, and the many institutional trends taking shape for the future. . . topics include ‘The 5Rs of Open’ and ‘What could Open Education mean for my institution?’ _One of the most important outcomes of the Open Education Ontario Summit will be to create the first cadre of “Open Rangers”, a passionate, dedicated community that will support the uptake and use of Open Education Resources in classrooms across Ontario. Participants will be issued a digital badge to certify their new role as an Open Ranger. __ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/Content/open-education-ontario-summit

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__The Status Quo of OER in Germany – a talk for the Open Education Global Conference 2017 _ http://open-educational-resources.de/oer-flipped-talk/ _

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__Jessica Brogley is teaching the next generation of teachers — those who will carry forward the continuous transformation of pedagogy. She spoke with EdTech Managing Editor Amy Burroughs about the ways classroom technology is expanding opportunities to teach and learn. __

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__Technologies That Could Elevate the Learning Experience _ Article

__”The only way to survive “this digital transformation” is to be absolutely determined to make learners the big winners. Only the organizations that make this commitment a core value will remain standing when all is said and done.” [ https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4931 ] __David Wiley v Pearson Education Commitment to Core Values _ https://twitter.com/opencontent __ v __ https://twitter.com/pearson _

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__Creators of existing CC works can use the CC Search Tool to identify and then add missing data which will enable indexing & discovery of online CC work via Google

__Stephen Downes commented: “The beta, I think, needs to be refined – none of my 36K Creative-Commons licensed photos on Flickr appear to be findable _ http://www.downes.ca/post/66362 _

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__David Wiley sees an opportunity in his Blog to express animosity for Fallon’s Pearson via misinterpretation and mistaken level of commitment of the creative people who earn their living within Publishing __David Wiley John Fallon – Pearson and the Big Winner _ https://lnkd.in/edc5Avp _ _ It’s best to read the sum of his statements for yourselves, what John Fallon had to say to Journalists and Analysts, as quoted in 5 articles linked below _

__David Wiley John Fallon – Pearson and the Big Winner _ https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4931 _ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/18/pearson-penguin-random-house-shares-dive-profit-warning _ http://fortune.com/2017/02/24/pearson-education-earnings/ _ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/02/24/pearson-sell-publishing-stake-losses-deepen/ _ https://www.ft.com/content/0e294d16-dc60-11e5-98fd-06d75973fe09 _ https://www.ft.com/content/64889f6c-fa79-11e6-9516-2d969e0d3b65 _

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__Hall Davidson, Senior Director, Global Learning Initiatives, Discovery Education who speaks frequently on the topics of VR and AR, said the results for teaching can be “astonishing.” He pointed to Lockheed Martin’s “Generation Beyond” initiative, powered by Discovery Ed, which takes classrooms on online field trips to learn about deep space exploration.”[-] “students could also be put into scenarios where they’re allowed to perform physical activities in virtual formats to begin building “muscle memory” that carries over into real life. That’s why the use of VR in sports and military training has become so popular.” __

Chris Roy

As a CDirector working in VR, AR, and MR, immersive experiences like this are coming sooner than we might think.

__Thanks Chris, do you have links? to examples you like – you could check this out too – “award-winning game-based learning from The Chang School at Ryerson University. _Video_ “The Therapeutic Communication and Mental Health Assessment” allows users to immerse themselves in a scenario and navigate the interaction with a client through a video and three learning modules. Produced by Digital Education Strategies at The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, Ryerson University. _ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMk7Fyqqm3o&feature=youtu.be _ [ Director Naza Djafarova

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GM’s CC license infringement claim, “while unsuccessful, was not objectively unreasonable.” [a current Balance Sheet would be better to see how new development work is affected by reduced revenue/funding.] “Furthermore, it would appear that no court has addressed whether commercial copy services may reproduce materials for a licensee under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA License” [Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial – Share Alike 4.0 International Public License] _ 2017-02-24 Order Granting Motion to Dismiss.pdf _ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0HBOY8b2doEdmpkMU4ya2dKM28/view _

__Great Minds Balance Sheet 2014 _ https://www.guidestar.org/PartnerReport.aspx?ein=26-0876000&Partner=Amex#

__Erin Beattie Digital Media Strategist – “BCcampus is a hub for new and innovative technologies in B.C. and development is our middle name, but much of what you don’t see is behind the curtain so we thought we’d push that back to reveal how we’ve managed to stay current in the ever-changing digital environment. Web development presents many barriers, opportunities and crafty solutions, and as we collectively grow, we need to stay up-to-date and nimble in order to stay innovative, but what exactly does that mean? To find out, we asked several internal BCcampus staff, read what they had to say: __

__key question. . . What can you tell us about the developers’ role in the success of the BC Open Textbook Project? _ ‘What you don’t see is behind the curtain’ are the many perspectives of its success – what would you ask Faculty about the BC Open Textbook Project?

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Quick Thoughts on Open Pedagogy

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Is Customer Experience Really More Important Than Sales?

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__from the very-cool dept at techdirt in 2002 15 years ago _ Lawrence Lessig’s Creative Commons _ “Lawrence Lessig and a bunch of other smart folks are apparently working on a new project called Creative Commons which is an outgrowth of many of the ideas that he’s been publishing recently. It’s a system of intellectual property licenses that IP creators and owners can use as alternatives to traditional copyrights or other licenses” _ https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20020211/0043214.shtml

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__Recommended Reading / Phil Hill: _WCET Survey Report and Tony Bates Commentary _ http://mfeldstein.com/recommended-reading-wcet-survey-report-tony-bates-commentary/ _ __ http://www.tonybates.ca/2017/02/20/what-counts-when-you-cost-online-learning/

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__California and Florida State laws promote public awareness of the cost of higher education and specify the responsibilities of colleges and universities [mainly Faculty responsibilities] in relation to textbook affordability __ California SB 1359 Public postsecondary education course materials _ https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1359 __Florida House Bill 7019: Education Access and Affordability _ http://tap.usf.edu/news/governor-scott-signs-hb-7019-into-law/ _

__Request for Quotes – Strategic Trend Research eCampusOntario is interested in working with analysts and researchers with deep experience in post-secondary education and a significant understanding of the Ontario context. __ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/news/request-for-quotes—strategic-trend-research for-quotes—strategic-trend-research

__eCampusOntario Strategic Plan 2016-2018 _ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/App_Content/Resource/docs/3113433a-5af2-4416-b782-3b1dffb56b77/eCampusOntario%20Strategic%20Plan%202016-18.pdf

__This RFP describes the work to be undertaken [2015] to develop a Strategic Plan for eCampusOntario that, over the life of the Plan, will move the organization toward this vision. “Vision: The OOLC/COAEL (Ontario Online Learning Consortium/) supports the development and delivery of high-quality online learning experiences, and leads in research, development, and sharing of best practices in online and other forms of technology-enabled learning.” _ http://www.merx.com/English/Supplier_menu.asp?WCE=Show&TAB=3&PORTAL=MERX&State=7&id=PR349538&HID=&src=nm&searchtype=&hcode=a8dox5dlFHjmsowlkJO0lg%3d%3d# _

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__Rajiv Jhangiani,- “a trajectory for the OE movement beyond its current adolescence, its advocates should aim for the next phase to involve a lot more collaboration among faculty and students, both across institutions and cohorts. This shift will require [*] tools that support radically transparent collaboration [-] but especially a break from traditional (opaque, territorial, top-down) approaches to curriculum design and development.” *inclusive of all stakeholders without bias against a Creative Community offering Talent Skill for a price __

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Decisions may be influenced by an ongoing debate filled with misconceptions about the relationship between traditionally published materials and Open Educational Resources (OER) __ Decisions may be influenced by reading about the Identity Crisis of OER Advocacy, Rajiv Jhangiani Pragmatism vs. Idealism and the Identity Crisis of OER Advocacy _ http://thatpsychprof.com/pragmatism-vs-idealism-and-the-identity-crisis-of-oer-advocacy/ _ and David Wiley OER Advocacy – Evolution vs Revolution _ https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4910 _

Rajiv Jhangiani Pragmatism vs. Idealism and the Identity Crisis of OER Advocacy: Pragmatism vs. Idealism and the Identity Crisis of OER Advocacy – Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.; Weller OER ch4; Schedule | OE Global 2017; OSF | Pragmatism vs Idealism and the Identity Crisis of OER Advocacy.pdf; Idealism vs. Pragmatism and the identity crisis of OER advocacy #oegl…

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Don Gorges Archive of LinkedIn Posts and Links February 15 to March 3

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Open Education Case for OER Cable Green CC 2017

Open Education: The Moral, Business & Policy Case for OER | EDEN

Lecturer: Cable Green, Director of Open Education, Creative Commons

Monday, 27 March 2017

Evolving the Case for OER

GOING OPEN: The Case for OER & Open Policies _ https://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/going-open

Open Education: The Business & Policy Case for OER featuring Dr. Cable Green – YouTube _ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI6ijdQ81Ik

Case for OER: Updated Keynote Slides (November, 2014) _ https://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/updated-keynote-slides-october-2014?next_slideshow=1 _

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Cable Green Director of Open Education at Creative Commons

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OPEN EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES

NDLA • Oslo, Norway • March 2017

Nicole Allen Director of Open Education

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Thanks Cable. One can learn more about The Norwegian Digital Learning Arena NDLA via it’s abbreviated English language website _ http://om.ndla.no/about-ndla/ _ and Wikipedia _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Digital_Learning_Arena _ It’s good to know that “NDLA invites public tenders for digital learning resources which cover part or all of the learning targets in the relevant subjects. Publishing companies can submit tenders on an equal basis with other participants.”

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OER’s Road Ahead is Paved with Publisher Platforms By Steven Bell

February 9, 2017

“Academic librarians are pleased with the progress they’ve made in leading their campuses to recognize the value of Open Educational Resources (OER). _Now publishers are responding to OER with new learning platforms. It may be time for a new strategy.” Steven Bell

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These Platforms Can’t Be Ignored

It may be in our nature to rail against publisher platforms, and some librarians may believe it is their responsibility as social justice advocates to demonize publishers for co-opting and bastardizing OER, as some journal publishers have corrupted open access. Breaking commercial publishers’ total control of learning content with the OER sledgehammer was neither easy nor inexpensive—and despite modest success, commercial textbooks still dominate. According to open education advocate David Wiley, it took years of effort and millions of dollars to create and introduce the OER we have today. Perhaps most difficult to overcome was faculty’s own reliance on commercial textbooks, to convince them to adopt OER. As supplemental learning content has exponentially expanded—slides, test banks, self-grading quizzes, and more—convincing faculty to adopt OER has only gotten harder. As Wiley puts it:

An OER advocate that walks into a faculty office and argues for them to trade their current arrangement (which increases the speed with which students receive feedback and decreases the time faculty spend grading) for static OER is going to sound like they understand very little about the realities of teachers and students. And they’re not going to be a very successful advocate.

David Wiley – Thoughts on Cengage’s MindTap ACE

Barnes & Noble BNED courseware platform

Cengage Launches MindTap ACE, An Affordable OER-Based Solution for Higher Education

MindTap ACE – Educause Video – Cengage Learning

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OER, Steven Bell Associate University Librarian Temple University

eCampusOntario Open Education Ontario Summit

Ontario Open Education Summit

__ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/Content/open-education-ontario-summit _

_One of the most important outcomes of the Open Education Ontario Summit will be to create the first cadre of “Open Rangers”, a passionate, dedicated community that will support the uptake and use of Open Education Resources in classrooms across Ontario. Participants will be issued a digital badge to certify their new role as an Open Ranger.

Become an Open Ranger.
100 spots available for 2017 cohort.Opportunities:- Join the Open Education Ontario 2017 open ranger cohort.
– Participate in Open Education Ontario Summit March 27th 2017.
– Participants will propose an Open Education idea for their year involved in Open Education in Ontario.
– Participate in monthly calls with updates on their projects.
– Spend 2017/18 as a leader in Open Education in their institution.
– Participate in Creative Commons Certificate program in 2018.
– This is a volunteer and honourary position and does not come with funds, or any additional privileges not outlined.
– You must work at an Ontario public post-secondary institution and apply with an institutional email address

Speakers

Look for Ontario track leaders announcement January 2017

Amanda Coolidge is the Senior Manager of Open Education at BCcampus where she supports the development and sharing of open educational resources in BC. She organizes the BC Open Textbook Summit and is a Creative Commons Institute for Open Leadership Fellow and co-developed the OER Policy Development Tool. You can find her at @acoolidge

Robin DeRosa is Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She is an Open Education practitioner, and an advocate for learner-driven curriculum, connected pedagogies, and increased access to higher education. You can find her at @actualham.

Clint Lalonde is an educational technologist and an advocate for the use of open educational resources and open education practices in higher education. Clint has worked in the British Columbia post-secondary system for 20 years, and is currently the Manager of Educational Technologies at BCcampus. You can find him at @clintlalonde.

Hugh Mcguire has been building web tools and communities that bring books onto the web for a decade. He is the CEO Rebus Foundation, founder of LibriVox , Pressbooks, and iambik and the co-editor of “Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto .” You can find him at @hughmcguire .

Dr.Rajiv Jhangiani is the University Teaching Fellow in Open Studies and a Psychology Professor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He serves as the Senior Open Education Advocacy and Research Fellow with BCcampus, an Associate Editor of Psychology Learning and Teaching, and a faculty workshop facilitator with the Open Textbook Network. You can find him at @thepsychprof.

Organizers

Program Director: Kelsey Wiens is Creative Commons Public Lead for Canada. She has recently returned to Canada from Cape Town where as CC Public Lead for South Africa she held Africa’s first Open Textbook Summit, founded Open Textbooks for Africa and hosted Creative Commons Institute for Open Leadership. In Canada, Kelsey works on projects advancing Open Access with SPARC and is the lead author for the OER Librarian Certificate for Creative Commons You can find her at @bella_velo

Partners

*eCampusOntario is funded by the government of Ontario.

eCampusOntario Open Education Ontario Summit, Ontario Open Education Summit: Open Education Ontario – build local capacity, to show opportunities for open pedagogy, and to showcase local open education projects and practices.; Partners – Open Education Ontario; APPLICATIONS OPEN – Open Education Ontario; Speakers – Open Education Ontario; Open Education Ontario – build local capacity, to show opportunities for open pedagogy, and to showcase local open education projects and practices.; Open Education Ontario Summit | eCampusOntario

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Comparing David Wiley’s v Pearson’s Core Values via their voice on Twitter/blogs _ https://lnkd.in/dUGhx-R __ v __ https://lnkd.in/eviUkNw _

__In a recent blog, Pearson and the Big Winner, David Wiley wrote:

“The only way to survive “this digital transformation” is to be absolutely determined to make learners the big winners. Only the organizations that make this commitment a core value will remain standing when all is said and done.”

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__Note to Creators of existing CC works – Please use the CC Search Tool to find your own work, identify any issues and add missing info-data which will enable indexing & discovery of online CC work via Google

When Stephen Downes checked-out the new CC Search Tool he commented: “The beta, I think, needs to be refined – none of my 36K Creative-Commons licensed photos on Flickr appear to be findable” _ http://www.downes.ca/post/66362 _ http://www.shareable.net/blog/qa-creative-commons-ceo-ryan-merkley-on-new-cc-search-feature

2017 02 27

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Article by Dian Schaffhauser

Chris Roy commented: As a CDirector working in VR, AR, and MR, immersive experiences like this are coming sooner than we might think.

Interactive Content, Interactive Media, Immersive Media, AR, VR, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Simulation, Visualization: SapientNitro Blog – 5 Key Takeaways from FilmGate Miami on Creating…; Digital Storytelling — a look at the last 12 months – Building Storyworlds – Medium; Index | StoryCode: Immersive Media; Resources | StoryCode: Immersive Media; About | StoryCode: Immersive Media; StoryCode: Immersive Media; StoryCode Monthly Dispatch List; Immerse Newsletter; Immerse; http://storycode.org; MIT – Docubase | The open documentary lab; Open Documentary Lab at MIT – MIT’s Open Documentary Lab brings technologists, storytellers, and scholars together to advance the new arts of documentary.; Priya’s Shakti; CAMPFIRE / Work / Infiniti Deja View; TANTALUM, an interactive production by Gilles Porte; Notes on Blindness; SapientNitro Blog – 5 Key Takeaways from FilmGate Miami on Creating…

2017 02 28

_ It’s best to read John Fallon’s statements for yourselves, the sum of what he had to say to Journalists and Market Analysts is quoted in these 5 articles _

__John Fallon – Pearson _ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/18/pearson-penguin-random-house-shares-dive-profit-warning _ http://fortune.com/2017/02/24/pearson-education-earnings/ _ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/02/24/pearson-sell-publishing-stake-losses-deepen/ _ https://www.ft.com/content/0e294d16-dc60-11e5-98fd-06d75973fe09 _ https://www.ft.com/content/64889f6c-fa79-11e6-9516-2d969e0d3b65 _

Watch chief executive, John Fallon’s interview on 24 February 2017, on Pearson’s 2016 full year results.

2017 02 28

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__Great Minds v Fedex Office and Print Services Case 2:16-cv-01462-DRH-ARL_ Judge Hurley today has granted defendant FedEx Office’s motion to dismiss. You can read the order here _ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0HBOY8b2doEdmpkMU4ya2dKM28/view _

GM’s CC license infringement claim, “while unsuccessful, was not objectively unreasonable.” [a current Balance Sheet would be better to see how new development work is affected by reduced revenue/funding.] “Furthermore, it would appear that no court has addressed whether commercial copy services may reproduce materials for a licensee under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA License” [Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial – Share Alike 4.0 International Public License] _ 2017-02-24 Order Granting Motion to Dismiss.pdf _ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0HBOY8b2doEdmpkMU4ya2dKM28/view _

__Consider the impact of printing revenue on investments in development of resources. Great Minds Balance Sheet 2014 _ https://www.guidestar.org/PartnerReport.aspx?ein=26-0876000&Partner=Amex#

2017 02 15

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__Erin Beattie, BCcampus Digital Media Strategist – “BCcampus is a hub for new and innovative technologies in B.C. and development is our middle name, but much of what you don’t see is behind the curtain so we thought we’d push that back to reveal how we’ve managed to stay current in the ever-changing digital environment. Web development presents many barriers, opportunities and crafty solutions, and as we collectively grow, we need to stay up-to-date and nimble in order to stay innovative, but what exactly does that mean?

To find out, we asked several internal BCcampus staff, read what they had to say: __

BCcampus developers committed to building sustainable digital infrastructures

__I find the BCcampus’ staff perspective is useful, however, I expect there is more to gain in asking BC Faculty questions about the materials coming out of the BC Open Textbook Project

2017 02 00

In his blog today, David Wiley’s goal is “to bring greater clarity to his own thinking that Open pedagogy is that set of teaching and learning practices only possible in the context of the free access and 5R permissions characteristic of open educational resources” _

Quick Thoughts on Open Pedagogy

opencontent.org

2017 02 23

__Eight attributes of Open Pedagogy by Bronwyn Hegarty

published in EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY /July –August 2015

OECD 2007: An open pedagogy requires a broad definition of OER

“Open educational resources refer to accumulated digital assets that can be adjusted and which provide benefits without restricting the possibilities for others to enjoy them.”

2017 02 23

Is customer experience really more important to marketers than sales? Multiple studies say yes.

By Heidi Tolliver-Walker
Published: February 23, 2017

Is Customer Experience Really More Important Than Sales?

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2017 02 23

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2017 01 24

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Pearson 149,492 followers 3d

We announced our 2016 results today https://www.pearson.com/news/media/news-announcements/2017/02/pearson-2016-results.html. John Fallon was on CNBC Europe to discuss Pearson’s priorities moving forward.

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2017 02 23

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Gardenia Flores Director Digital Marketing at Institute of Communication Agencies 3d

Even in a potentially unlimited digital marketplace, social networks, rankings, recommendation algorithms and the like focus people attentions on just a few items in the same way. The story of mass entertainment in the internet age is a paradox. Technology has given people too many choices, and then instantly relieved them of the need to make them.

2017 02 09

__Writing style is what turns a textbook into an effective learning tool, Saladin said. Vibrant, clear art and digital adaptive-learning media are also important. __

Biology’s Ken Saladin wins McGuffey textbook award

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2017 02 20

__Copyright policy-makers Article – Michael Geist Canadian Copyright expertise _ https://lnkd.in/ejpgzyX _ plus 2 Articles for creator-maker Students – Fair Dealing framed by Ryerson University Fair Dealing Guideline _ https://lnkd.in/eamZmVY _ Fair Dealing Week and Copyright Review 2017 – Ann Ludbrook of Ryerson University Library & Archives _ https://lnkd.in/eCN6qn3 _

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2017 02 22

__from the very-cool dept at techdirt in 2002 15 years ago _ Lawrence Lessig’s Creative Commons _ “Lawrence Lessig and a bunch of other smart folks are apparently working on a new project called Creative Commons which is an outgrowth of many of the ideas that he’s been publishing recently. It’s a system of intellectual property licenses that IP creators and owners can use as alternatives to traditional copyrights or other licenses” _ https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20020211/0043214.shtml

2017 02 00

__Request for Quotes – Strategic Trend Research eCampusOntario is interested in working with analysts and researchers with deep experience in post-secondary education and a significant understanding of the Ontario context. __ https://lnkd.in/eMxnX2q for-quotes—strategic-trend-research

2017 02 20

__Recommended Reading / Phil Hill: _WCET Survey Report and Tony Bates Commentary _ https://lnkd.in/eBZ2PPF _ __ https://lnkd.in/eSK45Yy

WCET Survey Report and Tony Bates Commentary

2017 02 20

__California and Florida State laws promote public awareness of the cost of higher education and specify the responsibilities of colleges and universities [mainly Faculty responsibilities] in relation to textbook affordability __ California SB 1359 Public postsecondary education course materials _ https //https://lnkd.in/echpy8G __Florida House Bill 7019: Education Access and Affordability _ http //https://lnkd.in/ew_EDfJ _

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__Visual Communications Marketing Copyright Open Education Design Thinking Don Gorges Archive of LinkedIn Posts and Links December 12 to February 15 _ https //https://lnkd.in/eAPys8T _

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__Selecting Quality Course Materials for Higher Education, by Association of American Publishers AAP, and Software & Information Industry Association SIIA _ http //https://lnkd.in/eCjME6Y

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__Selecting Quality Course Materials for Higher Education, by Association of American Publishers AAP, and Software & Information Industry Association SIIA _ http //https://lnkd.in/eCjME6Y

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Will Novosedlik Head of Growth Partnerships, Idea Couture 2w

Much of the time, business runs on bullshit. Especially when it comes to market research. How did we get here? How do we get out of here? My take on the challenge of keeping it real in a post-truth world.

“What You see Might Not Be Real” Chinese artist Chen Wenling _ “The strong and farting bull represents Wall Street (in Chinese slang, to fart mean to bluff or lie). And the man being shoved into the wall is Bernard Madoff who was sentenced to 150 years in prison because of Ponzi schemer. _ http://thedesigninspiration.com/articles/amazing-bull-fart-sculpture-by-chen-wenling/

2017 02 15

__The inBloom Story: InBloom was a $100 million educational technology initiative primarily funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that aimed to improve American schools by providing a centralized platform for data sharing, learning apps, and curricula. [The Legacy of InBloom – InBloom_feb_2017.pdf] _ https://lnkd.in/eNEUsjV _ __ https://lnkd.in/eTDiUYu

__5.0 Diagnosis of inBloom’s Closure _ 5.1 The Communication Response: An Argument Lacking a Vision _ 5.2 Was a Different Outcome Possible? _ The Legacy of InBloom _ https://datasociety.net/pubs/ecl/InBloom_feb_2017.pdf

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Shawn Morin President and CEO at Ingram Content Group 2w

We’re really excited about this!

__VitalSource Announces Intent to Acquire Verba _ https://press.vitalsource.com/vitalsource-announces-intent-to-acquire-verba

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__The next step is to go directly after the textbooks and digital course content made by Pearson and McGraw, Silagadze said in an interview. In November, they launched an online content marketplace, where professors can create course materials and sell it around the world. The idea is to cut out the publisher and let professors sell directly to students and each other, Silagadze said. – The potential for building the go-to marketplace for educational content is what attracted Union Square Ventures __

__Leaders in workplace innovation, content strategy, branding and communication discuss the changing roles, opportunities and challenges facing the future designer in RGD’s latest Future By Design panel__

The Future Designer by RGD

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2017 02 15

Don Gorges Archive of LinkedIn Posts and Links December 12 to February 15

Posted on February 15, 2017 by Don Gorges

Visual Communications Marketing Copyright Open Education Design Thinking

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__Ontario Talent in the Creative-Education Sector will earn “$21 Million New Public Funds in the creation of 61 New Program Development and Open Education Content Projects over two fiscal years” _ awesomeness really takes your breath away. . . Recommend eCampusOntario add support needed: Experienced Operations and Resources Management, Talent Sourcing and Organization of Optimized Schedules

eCampusOntario Open Education Initiatives – New Program Development Initiatives: Program Development Funding | eCampusOntario; Open Content Funding | eCampusOntario; eCampusOntario Releases 2016-18 Call for Proposals to Member Institutions | eCampusOntario

Naza Djafarova

Director, Digital Educational Strategies, The Chang, Ryerson University

__”Can you recommend a very creative/high quality/top web designer/company in Toronto? (strong design vs development )” _ asks Naza Djafarova Director, Digital Educational Strategies, The Chang, Ryerson University

“Can you recommend a very creative/high quality/top web designer/company in Toronto? (strong design vs development )”

ED Design Talent

POV _Sharing across Ontario Instructional Design Studio Peers/Teams

“Can you recommend a very creative/high quality/top web designer/company in Toronto? (strong design vs development )”

ED Design Talent

POV _Engagements across Ontario with Instructional Design Studio Peers/Teams

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Top Hat Raises $22.5 Million to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill

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__Globe&Mail Article about Top Hat_ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/toronto-tech-firm-targeting-college-textbook-market-scores-financing/article34038786/ _ “Christopher Bone, an assistant geography professor with the University of Oregon, said he and another professor recently developed an online textbook [Our Digital Earth] using Top Hat[’s Interactive Text authoring program]” _ See interview with Prof Bone: _ https://blog.tophat.com/interactive-texts-digital-pedagogy/ _ See Bone’s interactive text offered to Students for $41 by Top Hat _ https://tophat.com/marketplace/our-digital-earth/_ result: no Educational Publishers lost share of business

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The Future Designer by RGD

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Designers gathered at screening venues across Canada on January 31, 2017 to participate in the Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD)’s panel discussion on “The Future Designer” with Margot Bloomstein, principal at Appropriate Inc., Matteo Bologna, founding partner and principal at Mucca Design, and YuJune Park, director of BFA Communication Design Program at Parsons School of Design. Duane Bray, partner and global head of talent at IDEO New York, moderated the discussion.

2017 02 15

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__Jack Lynch was CEO at Renaissance Learning, Wolters Kluwer, Pearson School Technology, bigchalk.com – Software and Information Industry executive with 20 years of general management experience. Specialties: General Management, Technology and Shared Services __ https://lnkd.in/e6WS4r2

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Appoints John J. Lynch, Jr. as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

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Jack brings an uncommon set of K-12 education and technology experience along with an outstanding track record generating exceptional returns for investors,” said Lawrence K. Fish, chairman of the HMH Board of Directors. “He is the right leader at the right time as HMH and the education industry continue to transform and evolve.”

2017 02 15

Andrew Laufer

Principal at LÄUFT | Innovation / Strategy / Design

There is no one path in photography or photojournalism.

An Interview with President Obama’s White House Photographer Pete Souza

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Former Chief White House photographer Pete Souza, on how he landed the coveted position as …

2017 02 12

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__The Agenda with Steve Paikin –

What did Conrad Black know about Trump that so few others did? – Feb 10, 2017

Black on Trump

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Published on Feb 10, 2017

A year ago, almost no one expected ever to say the words: President Donald Trump. But Conrad Black has known the new president for 25 years, and well before Trump even took the stage as the Republican nominee, Black wrote – back in March of 2016 – that Trump ,seems to have become the man whom the great office of president of the United States now seeks., What did he know that so few others did?

2017 02 10

Irvin Studin

Policy Strategist, Professor, Editor-in-Chief, Think Tank President

Studin interview this coming weekend with CBC Radio’s “The 180” with Jim Brown, on why the Trump period means that Canada should “think for itself”.

It’s time for Canada to think for itself

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Irvin Studin, editor of the Canadian foreign affairs magazine Global Brief, says the Trump administration is the wake-up call Canada needs, so it …

Irvin Studin It’s time for Canada to think for itself – Home | The 180 with Jim Brown | CBC Radio: It’s time for Canada to think for itself – Home | The 180 with Jim Brown | CBC Radio

2017 02 11

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__BCcampus buried the lede, is starting to add Versioning History pages as updated versions of textbooks are added to the collection or when corrections are made.

_what does it mean, to add Versioning History pages, Index? Parent/Child

5 new textbooks in the BC Open Textbook Collection

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As of today, we now have 173 open textbooks in 8 main and 36 secondary subject areas in the BC Open Textbook Collection. New titles are being adapted and adopted often – here are the 5 latest open textbooks that we’ve added to the collection since the beginning of the year.

Prealgebra: OpenStax

Teaching in the Digital Age – Spanish translation (PDF and Word doc)

Greek and Latin Roots: Part I Latin

Greek and Latin Roots: Part II Greek

Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science, Book 1

Updated: Principles of Marketing – NOTE: This book was updated on January 20, 2017. Any reviews posted before this date are based on the older edition of this textbook.

Plus, we are starting to add Versioning History pages as updated versions of textbooks are added to the collection or when corrections are made.

2017 02 11

__This report is one in a three part series that presents the results from the 2015 Ontario Post-secondary Student Survey by the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) __

Affordability – Results from the 2015 Ontario Post-Secondary Student Survey

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As an advocate for many of Ontario’s university students, OUSA prides itself on keeping their voices at the forefront of discussions about systemic change. To this end we survey our membership to ensure that we have the best possible information about their experiences, and can make recommendations for improvements. This report is one in a three part series that presents the results from the 2015 Ontario Post-secondary Student Survey. The discussion herein will assist our organization in determining students’ use of financial assistance, employment earnings, and other sources of income that are used to pay for postsecondary education.

__”Average tuition in Ontario is $8,114 and our respondents reported spending an average of $540 on textbooks and course packs; that’s about $8,650 minimum per academic year.” _ Going forward, the government should focus its policy efforts on improving assistance programs for Students with low family incomes and Students with dependents, married Students, and part-time Students.

Affordability – Results from the 2015 Ontario Post-Secondary Student Survey – Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance OUSA: Affordability – Results from the 2015 Ontario Post-Secondary Student Survey – OUSA; Affordability_OPSSS2015_document.pdf

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2017 02 08

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Joe Stella

Expertise in building strategic, integrated communications; custom publishing; branded content; social media

“Marketing in 1965 was the same thing as advertising. We called it marketing, but it was advertising. As advertising has faded away, marketers have tried to turn the Internet into advertising. My argument is: Real content marketing isn’t repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about.”

‘You Need Editors, Not Brand Managers’: Marketing Legend Seth Godin on the Future of Branded Content

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We sat down with Seth Godin, the godfather of modern marketing, to get his take on the present and future of content marketing.

Everyone who interviews you describes it as this amazing, life-changing experience. What do you think makes you such a good interview?

I don’t think I change anybody’s life. I think sometimes people decide to change their own life, and if I can be present for that, that’s a nice thing to do.

Why do you think you have that influence on people, then?

Well, I think that showing up every day for 10 years or more in a row gives people a hint as to what it is you’re actually trying to accomplish. There’s a mindset by some people who do content marketing that you give a couple of times, and then it’s all about the getting. And I’m not interested in the getting—I’m just trying to make a change in the universe that we can all be pleased with.

2017 02 06

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Cynthia Round

Brand Strategist – Culture Evangelist

Met Museum Makes 375,000 Images Available for Free

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“They can be used however you want to use them,” said Loic Tallon, the Met’s chief digit…

Making The Met’s Collection More Accessible | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Making The Met’s Collection More Accessible | The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Introducing Open Access at The Met | The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Making The Met’s Collection More Accessible | The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Introducing Open Access at The Met | The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Home | The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Met on Twitter: ““The Met now becomes the largest and most diverse open-access museum collection in the world.” —Director Thomas P. Campbell #MetOpenAccess https://t.co/F7sCe9V9pK”; Mission & History | Artstor; Copyright | Artstor; Artstor; Milestones in Our History | ITHAKA; Ithaka Home | ITHAKA; The Boundless Treasures of The Met: 375,000 public domain images now available through Open Access! | The Artstor Blog

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__In making images of public-domain artworks, as well as searchable metadata about them, available online, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is adapting its practice to meet the needs of 21st-century audiences. Thank you to those institutions that have blazed the trail on Open Access, including: Statens Museum for Kunst (Denmark); Rijksmuseum (The Netherlands); The National Gallery of Art (U.S.); The Walters Art Museum (U.S.); Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (U.S.); and the Museum of Modern Art (U.S.). __

Making The Met’s Collection More Accessible

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Director Thomas P. Campbell announces a major update to the Museum’s policy governing the use and reuse of images in our collection.

2017 02 07

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Clint Lalonde

Manager, Educational Technologies, BCcampus

A new Creative Commons search engine is now in beta

Announcing the new CC Search, now in Beta

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Creative Commons’ goal is a vibrant, usable Commons powered by collaboration and gratitude. That work has taken us beyond the licenses t…

Use this prototype to find images that you can use and remix across several open archives. Give us your feedback to help us design a front door to the commons.

Filters

__The Campaign should focus on motivating Creators to use the CC Search Tool to show them the problems one has finding their existing online creative works – to help them identify the missing info, EXIF data and tags and to motivate-help them go back to add the required metadata to this existing work. The goal is to enable discovery of all © and CC creative work that is available online via a filtered Google search.

Creative Commons, CC Search: CC Search prototype; Announcing the new CC Search, now in Beta – Creative Commons; CC Search Developer Notes and Reflection – Medium; Creative Commons unveils a new photo search engine with filters, lists & social sharing | TechCrunch; Creative Commons unveils a new photo search engine with filters, lists & social sharing | TechCrunch; Announcing the new CC Search, now in Beta ~ Stephen Downes

2017 02 07

Hilton Barbour

Marketing Provocateur

SUPERBOWL ADS – The most honest Superbowl ad analysis I’ve seen yet.

Why Our Super Bowl Ad Failed

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Cards Against Humanity purchased a Super Bowl ad, but it was not successful.

Cards Against Humanity’s fake Super Bowl ad was actually brilliant marketing stunt: Cards Against Humanity’s fake Super Bowl ad was actually brilliant marketing stunt; Why Our Super Bowl Ad Failed – Medium; Cards Against Humanity; Black Friday 2015

2017 02 07

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__Is the defining feature of open pedagogy “all activities that open up access to educational opportunity [via] online content and services” [Helen Beetham] _ https://lnkd.in/gFR-J7k _ https://lnkd.in/gv8KHeq _ Clint Lalonde – This is excellent. Thanks Don.

Does Open Pedagogy require OER?

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I recently had the opportunity to attend a student showcase of Digital Humanities projects, put on by the Digital Pedagogy Network. The Digital Pedagogy …

__A very insightful discussion about protocol in using ‘Open’ as a modifier in a 5R’s Open Community. . . per comments: “I do think we need to reserve the use of the term “open” to refer to practices that bestow the 5R permissions _ Your warning about reserving open in education is for 5R activities is a valid point” _ Defining terms is important, but one I find fraught with both benefits and challenges _ So, while I agree that 5R’s are an important piece of open pedagogy (helps clarify), I worry that it then starts to restrict activities that, I think, are open pedagogy.

Does Open Pedagogy require OER, Clint Lalonde: Does Open Pedagogy require OER? – ClintLalonde.net; OER Synthesis and Evaluation / OpenPracticesWhat; Open Pedagogy: Connection, Community, and Transparency — Campus Technology; Open Education Around the World: Study.com Speaks with the University of Southern Queensland, Mar 23, 2011

__David Wiley recently wrote to the Open Community about Cengage’s new offering called MindTap ACE that includes OER [Affordable Curated Effective OER] _ To reinforce protocol, Wiley introduces a new meme _ “MindTap ACE is an OER vaccine – it introduces OER into courseware in a manner specifically designed to inoculate faculty from contracting a full-blown OER adoption. It allows faculty to “check the OER box” while still paying for Cengage proprietary content. This is not the last OER vaccine we will see from a major publisher desperate to sell their content for a few more semesters.” _ https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4882 _

2017 02 07

__Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl message of inclusion, Pledge of Allegiance One Nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all __ Dancers surround Lady Gaga in Super Bowl halftime show CNN _ http //https://lnkd.in/gBx_Amn __FOX _ https://lnkd.in/gtEmEEm _

Lady Gaga – Super Bowl Pledge of Allegiance One Nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all,: Lady Gaga – CNN.com; Lady Gaga brings message of inclusion to Super Bowl halftime — oh, and drones | FOX6Now.com; Super Bowl: Brady leads Patriots’ historic rally to beat Falcons in OT – CBC Sports – Football – NFL

2017 02 06

Don Gorges

Visual Communications in Educational Resources, Design, Creative Services, Marketing

__Der SPIEGEL magazine cover illustration by Edel Rodriguez ‏@edelstudio _1739978_1164x1550_title_ http //https://lnkd.in/ehKF_zH

Der SPIEGEL magazine cover illustration by Edel Rodriguez ‏@edelstudio: DER SPIEGEL 2017/6; 43aac96e-03ba-4de2-a065-08ffad49b136-original.jpeg (JPEG Image, 1080 × 1436 pixels); 1739978_1164x1550_title.jpeg – Washington Times; DER SPIEGEL 2017/6; http://magazin.spiegel.de/SP/2017/6/index.html; DER SPIEGEL (@DerSPIEGEL) | Twitter; Der Spiegel published a very graphic cover on Trump’s immigration ban – Business Insider

2017 02 06

__Last night, TVO TeachOntario, an online community for teachers, received the 2016 Ontario School Library Association OSLA Award for Special Achievement. Presented at the Ontario Library Association (OLA) Super Conference, the OSLA Award recognizes individuals or organizations that have provided significant support to teacher-librarians, and school library information centre development, in Ontario / news release:_ http //https://lnkd.in/eKSTqAD __ TeachOntario website:_ https //www.teachontario.ca

TVO TeachOntario awarded by the Ontario School Library Association: TVO TeachOntario awarded by the Ontario School Library Association; Explore | TeachOntario; Welcome | TeachOntario

2017 02 03

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The environmental advantage of paperboard packaging is creating more demand.

PPC releases its 2016 Trends Report on the folding carton market that predicts long-term growth

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The USA-based Paperboard Packaging Council’s (PPC) 100-plus-page report includes an anal…

2017 02 01

Paul Hoffert

Chair at Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund

My friend Jim Gelcer and I are crowdfunding an album featuring jazz versions of Beethoven’s music that was played and loved by Glenn Gould. Click the link for details!

Going For The Gould: Recording Spring 2017

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Going For The Gould – Jim Gelcer / Paul Hoffert Trio

2017 02 01

Sarah Brown

Product Manager at TVO

Manager, Web Development – TVO

LinkedIn Check out this job from TVO

2017 02 01

__Merging to focus on telling the story of how much members contribute to Canada’s Education Sector, Canada’s Creative Sector and Canada’s Economy __

Canadian Education Research Council (CERC) to merge with Canadian Publishers’ Council (CPC)

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February 1, 2017 –Today CERC announced the completion of its merger with CPC, combining Canada’s largest K-12 publishers with their counterparts in Higher Education to create a powerful voice for Canada’s Educational Publishing sector across K-20, at a critical time for the sector.

Since its formation in 1996, CERC has been a crucial voice for the creators of Canadian classroom resources for students and teachers in the Elementary and Secondary School system in Canada. Its member firms account for some 80 percent of the curriculum-based learning resources purchased each year across the country. CERC has worked closely with provincial and school board authorities to ensure that K-12 students continue to have access to high quality, Canadian-developed learning materials in both print and digital formats.

CPC, founded in 1910, represents major Trade, Professional and Higher Education publishers in Canada. Its members produce the majority of resources that serve the Post-Secondary, Consumer and Professional markets in Canada, supporting over eight thousand authors and providing more than $36 Million in royalties to Canadian creators each year.

“We are very excited to welcome CERC to the CPC organization. CERC and CPC merging will help us streamline our administrative efforts so we can focus more energy and resources on telling the story of how much our members contribute, both to the sector and economy, but as importantly to Canadian classrooms,” said Kevin Hanson, President of CPC and President of Simon & Schuster Canada.

Canadian Publisher’s Council – book publishing trade association: Canadian Publisher’s Council – book publishing trade association; Copyright Board Decision is Deeply Concerning – K-12 Decision stmt.docx – K-12 Decision stmt.pdf; Canadian Education Research Council (CERC) to merge with Canadian Publishers’ Council (CPC) – The BPC; Canadian Education Research Council (CERC) to merge with Canadian Publishers’ Council (CPC) – The BPC

2017 02 01

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__The majority of the concerns about OER are that material published openly online [BCcampus textbooks for example] isn’t as good as the content produced by Publishers [or a hired team of professional textbook Developers, like OpenStax does] __

Top Fears Shutting the Door on Open Education — Campus Technology

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Fear and anxiety can keep many educators from embracing open educational resources and open pedagogy. Here, “open” proponents explain common concerns.

2017 02 01

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__In fact, a close look at the Copyright Board’s analysis revealed that [-] virtually all copying of books, newspapers, and periodicals in the large sample reviewed by the Board was covered by fair dealing and did not require a licence from Access Copyright. Moreover, the Board found that copying 1 to 2 pages from a book is insubstantial and does not even require a fair dealing analysis. __

Federal Court of Appeal Upholds Copyright Board’s Fair Dealing Ruling – Michael Geist

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The Federal Court of Appeal has issued its ruling in the judicial review of the Copyright Board’s ruling involving copying in Canadian K-12 schools. The decision is the latest in a growing number of decisions that have all adopted the same, flexible approach to fair dealing. Access Copyright has spent years (and millions of dollars) losing challenges on what was readily apparent from the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2012 copyright pentalogy: the value of the Access Copyright licence is very limited in light of authorized copying and fair dealing.

Copyright Board’s Fair Dealing Ruling on Access Copyright’s Arguements Fair Dealing Education Exception – Michael Geist – Fairness Confirmed Again: Federal Court of Appeal Upholds Copyright Board’s Fair Dealing Ruling: Fairness Confirmed Again: Federal Court of Appeal Upholds Copyright Board’s Fair Dealing Ruling – Michael Geist; Michael Geist (@mgeist) | Twitter; Help Finding Post-Sec Interview Subjects – Access Copyright; Fictional Claims: Why Kids Are Not Suffering With Canada’s Copyright Fair Dealing Rules – Michael Geist; Not a Free for All: Canadian University Libraries Spending Hundreds of Millions on Licensing – Michael Geist; U of C axes hundreds of journal subscriptions as ‘big 5’ publishers jack up prices – Calgary – CBC News; Nearly all UBC math textbooks are available online for free; World’s Largest Education Company Crashes After Dire Warning, Warns Of “Unprecedented” Business Decline | Zero Hedge; Decision in judicial review of 2010-2015 K-12 Tariff – Access Copyright; Access Copyright v. British Columbia Education _ DECISION-FCA-27-January-2017.pdf; Fairness Confirmed: Copyright Board Deals Another Blow to Access Copyright – Michael Geist; The Copyright Board of Canada sets royalties _ NEW-2016-02-19-News-Release-EN.pdf; The Copyright Board of Canada sets royalties _ Copyright Act, subsection 70.15 (1) DEC-K-12_2010-2015-19-02-06.pdf; http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/02/fairness-confirmed-again-federal-court-of-appeal-upholds-copyright-boards-fair-dealing-ruling/; Michael Geist on Twitter: “Fairness Confirmed Again: Fed Court of Appeal Upholds Copyright Board Fair Dealing Ruling https://t.co/wJCp1YDwLl https://t.co/F3Mt0HFdYQ”; Research Interview Sign-up [Post-Sec]; Access for Copyshops – Access Copyright; What is educational “fair dealing”? (Video) – Access Copyright; Public Library Photocopying Licence Guidelines for Copying – Access Copyright; Access Copyright – RMS; Access Copyright; Logging Tool for Access for Copyshops Customers – Access Copyright; Access for Copyshops FAQs – Access Copyright; access_for_copyshops_poster.pdf; SiteMap – Access Copyright; about us – Access Copyright; Contact Us – Access Copyright; Access Copyright – Access Copyright; Access Copyright (@AccessCopyright) | Twitter; False Alarms: Examining the Misleading Claims About the State of Canadian Publishers – Michael Geist; Copyright Board Ruling Strikes Fair Balance in Heated Education Fight – Michael Geist; Access Copyright v. British Columbia Education _ CanLII – 2017 FCA 16 (CanLII); CanLII – 2012 SCC 37 (CanLII); CanLII – 2010 FCA 198 (CanLII); CanLII – 2004 SCC 13 (CanLII); CanLII – Copyright Act, RSC 1985, c C-42; CanLII – Canadian Legal Information Institute; Decision in judicial review of 2010-2015 K-12 Tariff – Access Copyright; CanLII – Copyright Modernization Act, SC 2012, c 20

2017 02 01

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__Listen to the recording [link:_ http://ow.ly/D0c2308A58n ] from the Jan. 31 Webinar by Elizabeth Childs of Royal Royals University re: a design thinking approach to Open Education within their Master’s degree in Learning and Technology __

Webinar Series: Open Education Stories from Across B.C.

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2017 01 30

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__David Harris of OpenStax, and David Wiley of Lumen Learning are understandably concerned about the ways their businesses will be affected by online e-Text / inclusive access business models which combine proprietary content with teacher-selected OER content __

David Wiley, chief academic officer at Lumen Learning, touched on the same concerns in a blog post reflecting on the evolution of open educational resources. “Five years ago, in an essay called 2017: RIP OER?, I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER.”

Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later

https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4892

Is ‘Inclusive Access’ the Future for Publishers?

insidehighered.com

Textbooks aren’t selling like they used to, but a new business model that has led to increased access to course materials and lower costs at some universities is beginning to take shape.

Carl Straumsheim

January 31, 2017

“The inclusive-access model, common at some for-profit colleges but gaining traction in other sectors of higher education, has previously been described as a “win-win-win” situation. Colleges can point to fewer students who go without course materials and to — they hope — improved student outcomes. Publishers gain more reliable, recurring revenue. And students, since few of them tend to opt out from the model, benefit from volume discounts, meaning they end up paying less for their course materials than if they had shopped for a traditional print book or ebook.”

Inclusive Access – The Future for Publishers Carl Straumsheim Inside Higher Ed: Textbook publishers contemplate ‘inclusive access’ as business model of the future; What would happen if learning materials were provided to all students on or before the first day of class? Part II; « Back to News Print This Is ‘Inclusive Access’ the Future for Publishers? ~ Stephen Downes; eCFR — Code of Federal Regulations; How Inclusive Access Purchasing Programs Can Lower the Cost of Higher Education | Wiley; e-Text Initiative Information; How Digital Textbooks, Tech-Friendly Furniture, and Better Data Are Boosting Engagement at Community Colleges | EdSurge News; UC Davis Inclusive Access program; UCD-Inclusive-Access.pdf

2017 01 31

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Acrobatiq

Thinking of hiring a new instructional designer? Here are some ideas of what to look for in the perfect candidate: https://lnkd.in/eAh-fCU

Prepare a Solid Instructional Designer Job Description for Higher Ed

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Instructional design plays an important role in course development for higher education, wheth…

2017 01 31

__Advice [ 7:55 in video ] from interviews with educators at Oregon State University in a follow-up to Vendors Presenting at Adaptive Learning Open House – “Institutions are looking for partners—not vendors” _ individualized, services-oriented relationships __ see video via e-Literate TV _ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBY5AN0Q8gI&feature=youtu.be

2017 01 31

Michael Geist

law professor at university of ottawa

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The Shattered Mirror, Part One: Fair Dealing Reform Isn’t the Answer for News in the Digital Age

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Michael Geist, Public Policy Forum The Shattered Mirror News Democracy and Trust in the Digital Age, The Shattered Mirror

2017 01 27

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Cable Green

Director of Open Education at Creative Commons

More colleges are using free educational resources

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2017 02 03

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CC Community releases movement strategy for consultation

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Creative Commons Global Network Strategy Proposal 2017

Creative Commons 2011 Strategic Plan _ https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Strategy#Vision

The Future of Creative Commons – Realizing the value of sharing in a digital world 2013 _ https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/c/ce/Future-of-creative-commons.pdf

2017 01 24

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Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC)

Looking back on 2016 & looking forward to 2017! A message from ICTC’s President & CEO, Namir Anani Read today! https://lnkd.in/dZkxf5g

A message from the President & CEO

ictc-ctic.ca

Digital transformation continues to radically change the face of business in Canada. The advent of the collaborative economy, the rise of advanced robotics, the adoption of blockchain in financial services, and advances in autonomous cars are all a manifestation of the innovative nature of the global digital landscape. These innovations are ushering in a new era of convenience, affordability, and responsiveness that are expected to significantly disrupt traditional markets in the coming years. This accelerated wave of business transformation, however, comes amidst signs of interest rate hikes, changing global trade landscape, and heightening demand for skilled digital talent. In this dynamic environment, ICTC continues to drive a forward looking digital agenda for Canada by delivering advanced research and labour market forecasts, innovative talent programs, and evidence-based policies that chart a path forward for Canada in the global economy.

Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC)

Nonprofit Organization Management

2017 01 26

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__David Wiley blog posts are like reading emails directed to his key people [read David Porter & Mary Burgess – let’s get on the same page here] . . . “Much of the OER movement has a bad attitude about platforms _ Those who worship at the altar of scale will eventually find themselves sacrificed thereon _ If the OER community doesn’t recognize that and start providing and promoting viable alternatives to publishers’ platforms, the best possible future for OER is [-] playing second fiddle to proprietary content.” _https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4892

__See Dan McGuire (Sabier) comments via his blog where he points to the contradictions and conflicts of interest in Wiley’s business practices versus Wiley’s OER thought-leadership/sermonizing-marketing blog __ http://developingprofessionalstaff-mpls.blogspot.ca/2017/01/for-profit-involvement-in-oer-part-5.html

2017 01 24

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Province delivers $20-million boost to college innovation through OCE, Colleges Ontario partnership

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The new $20-million Colleges Applied Research and Development Fund (CARDF) announced by Premier Kathleen Wynne will promote new economic growth, the Ontario Centres of Excellence and Colleges Ontario said today.

“College-based applied research projects continue to develop innovations that help businesses throughout the province grow and create new, high-quality jobs,” said Linda Franklin, the President and CEO of Colleges Ontario. “This fund will strengthen Ontario’s competitiveness in key sectors.”

The fund was officially launched today at an announcement at Conestoga College. It is part of the Ontario government’s Business Growth Initiative and will be coordinated through a partnership between the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), Colleges Ontario and the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science (MRIS).

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__The College Voucher for Innovation and Productivity (I & VIP II) streams will help Ontario companies develop, implement and commercialize technical innovations by supporting industry/post-secondary collaborations. _VIP I_ http://oce-ontario.org/programs/industry-academic-collaboration/colleges/college-voucher-for-innovation-and-productivity-i-(vip-i) _VIP II_ http://oce-ontario.org/programs/industry-academic-collaboration/colleges/college-voucher-for-innovation-and-productivity-ii-(vip-ii)

2017 01 23

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McGraw-Hill Education

Today at BETT in London we launched Connect2! This innovative platform will help international college instructors create and deliver high-quality adaptive digital learning experiences:

McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, today announced the launch of Connect2, an innovative new course design, management and delivery solution for higher education instructors. Initially available outside of the United States, Connect2 offers instructors a complete, fully customizable course framework to build and manage their courses, together with advanced data analytics and a dynamic adaptive learning system for students.

McGraw-Hill Education Launches Connect2, New Innovative Approach to Higher Education Course Design and Management

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Connect2 offers pre-built, customizable courses to make the course-building process more effective and less time-consuming for instructors, with a personalized learning environment for students.

2017 01 24

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Cengage Learning

What are the challenges of being a digital provider in the higher ed landscape? Join our CTO George Moore on Feb. 2nd at LearnLaunch’s Across Boundaries for a discussion on the evolving market landscape >>

Agenda – LearnLaunch Institute

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The LearnLaunch Across Boundaries conference, now in it’s 5th year, brings together an edtech community – from New England and beyond – interested in driving innovation to transform learning and increase achievement using digital technologies. Educators, education administrators, entrepreneurs, investors, education companies, and technology innovators are all part of the community that attends this yearly event to authentically learn, educate others, and discuss the burning questions of the day.

The LearnLaunch Across Boundaries conference: 2017 Conference – LearnLaunch Institute; About Us – LearnLaunch Institute; Agenda – LearnLaunch Institute

2017 01 25

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Tyler Gannon

Building deep relationships with growth stage EdTech companies

Authentica Solutions Announces PIP Learning Acquisition

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ATLANTA, Jan. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Authentica Solutions announced today that it has acquired PIP Learning Technologies, a Trust Platform® and Single Sign-On Company. PIP Learning Technologies was part of the 4^th cohort of startups in LearnLaunch, a premier EdTech accelerator based in Boston, MA. The Trust Platform^® is an online platform for schools that helps protect student privacy online. The platform helps districts manage access to sensitive data as well as connect educators to online applications.

2017 01 24

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__Dear Mr. President – We hope you will support a strong and vibrant copyright system in the United States that protects copyright holders from online theft and ensures that creators share in the massive profits being made by internet platforms from these copyrighted works. [We are] The unified voice of the copyright community, more than 1.8 million individual creators and over 13,000 organizations across the spectrum of copyright disciplines in the United States. http://copyrightalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Letter-to-President-Donald-Trump-Jan-23-2017.pdf

__Association of American Publishers (AAP) letter to Donald Trump, Dec 15 2016 – “[Seeking] a common sense assurance that their ability to obtain a fair return on capital investments in competitive markets will not be thwarted by flawed federal laws and court decisions, especially since the exercise of their exclusive rights of copyright is an intended result of the Framers’ grant of authority to Congress to advance the public dissemination of knowledge by rewarding the private creation of works of original expression.” _ https://presspage-production-content.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/1508/lettertopresidentelectdonaldtrump12.15.16.pdf?10000_

2017 01 23

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Paul Belfanti

Vice President Production, Manufacturing & Content Architecture at AscendLearning

Succinct, thought-provoking article on a very important topic for edu-publishers

Death of the Textbook, Really

edtechdigest.wordpress.com _ December 22, 2016

Will a new business model accelerate the digital revolution in course materials?

the momentum behind the new Inclusive Access model is palpable, and solutions to help institutions streamline Inclusive Access are already emerging. Moreover, campus stores have entered the scene to provide much needed course materials expertise, working with publishers to ensure pricing represents significant savings to students and facilitating the Department of Education’s opt-out provisions. With the right combination of market incentives and strategic partnerships in place, Inclusive Access looks to have a promising future.

It’s a well-worn observation that popular demand for digital music and news media precipitated new business models. The course materials market may soon reverse the polarity, with a new business model finally facilitating the digital revolution.

GUEST COLUMN | by Ryan Petersen and Jared Pearlman

__Design Thinking “a new business model finally facilitating the digital revolution.” __ For their Classes, Faculty [are urged/mandated to] know the resources available and curate valuable, required, including both CC and © content options. . . which Students [are urged/mandated to] curate and add content, to make recommendations throughout class term _ Assume many Iterations of programs will be optimized each term/cohort _ collaborations will continuously improve the quality of choices used

Death of the Textbook -OP-ED Verba Software Textbooks Sales Data Competitive Tools for Campus Retailers: Death of the Textbook, Really | edtechdigest.com; Verba | Competitive Tools for Campus Retailers; GOING DIGITAL: Faculty Pespectives on Digital and OER Course Materials | The Campus Computing Project; | University Business Magazine; McGraw-Hill Education Reports Sales of Digital Units Overtake Print in its U.S. Higher Education Group in 2015; Death of the Textbook, Really | edtechdigest.com; Death of the Textbook, Really ~ Stephen Downes; Will a new business model accelerate the digital revolution in course materials? « VerbaBlog; Cengage, Unizin Partner to Offer More Affordable Digital Course Materials

2017 01 21

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D2L

Announcement: University of Ottawa Chooses D2L’s Brightspace as its Next-Generation Learning Environment. http://ow.ly/XJWG308gl96

University of Ottawa Chooses D2L’s Brightspace as its Next-Generation Learning Environment | Press Release | D2L

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D2L, which has helped transform learning for people all over the world, announces that the University of Ottawa—the world’s largest bilingual school (French-English) with more than 42,000 students—has chosen Brightspace as its new learning management system (LMS). Brightspace was selected to support the university’s vision of offering the most advanced next-generation digital learning environment (NGDLE), designed to meet the modern demands of today’s students and instructors. D2L now supports more than half of Canada’s research-intensive universities.

2017 01 23

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__The U of C libraries and cultural resources department subscribed to roughly 12,000 journals in 2016 at a cost of about $10 million. With a roughly $30-million annual budget in total, academic journal subscriptions make up a third of the libraries’ expenses. __

University of Calgary cuts 1,600 academic resources

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By Scott Strasser, January 16 2017 —

In the world of academia, knowledge is a commodity with rising costs — that much is evident within the University of Calgary’s libraries collections.

This year, the U of C’s libraries and cultural resources department has cancelled academic journal subscriptions valued at $1.5 million. The cancellations include roughly 1,600 academic resources, including 887 journals from prominent Taylor & Francis bundles.

The reveal of the cancelled subscriptions — several hundred of which went into effect on Jan. 1 — sparked anger from some U of C faculty members.

“These are not just minor journals. A lot of these are the flagship journals of many disciplines,” U of C geography professor Byron Miller said. “And many more are journals that are considered among the top-five most important in specific fields. It was pretty shocking to us.”

Miller said the journal cancellations will make it harder for U of C faculty members to perform their research.

2017 01 16

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Cambridge University Press

It’s Academic Book Week, and to celebrate we’ve made 20 award-winning titles FREE to read all week! https://lnkd.in/d-PQdHv #AcBookWeek

Academic Book Week 2017 | Cambridge University Press

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Cambridge University Press is delighted to support Academic Book Week 2017 for the second year running.

This year focuses on championing innovation in publishing and to celebrate we have picked 20 award-winning books which you can read here for free throughout Academic Book Week.

2017 01 21

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__One of the top billings at the cabinet retreat this week will be a meeting with Stephen Schwarzman, the CEO of the Blackstone Group, a top U.S. hedge fund and investment group, who was appointed in December to head Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum -a team of economic advisors who will help the president implement his ambitious agenda “to bring jobs back to America,” includes some of the biggest names from Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Schwarzman will counsel cabinet on Trump’s thinking and how his promised plan to recast trade deals “could play out,” __

Canada’s not the focus of Trump’s NAFTA talk — but it could be ‘collateral damage,’ ambassador says

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet colleagues have arrived in Calgary for a three-day retrea…

2017 01 22

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__Marketing technology is exploding. Michael Chase of St. Joseph Communications says that there are now more than 3,500 providers of “MarTech” services. But, building efficient marketing platforms requires more than just cherry-picking technology solutions. Chase notes that all the MarTech in the world won’t help if there is no content strategy in place to guide the effort. _ http://whattheythink.com/video/83627-are-you-ready-martech-explosion/ _ Those following the evolution of EdTech / FinTech / MarTech see the design thinking approachs to strategy & implementation

2017 01 16

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__Angela Stone LOVES her job as Manager of Packaging Optimization at Canadian Tire Retail _ Angela is responsible for all of the private label packaging that is used for the wide range of products it offers. It covers all types of packaging, from folding carton to flexible to sewn-in labels. She talks about how she handles color management across this disparate array of packaging applications. _ http://whattheythink.com/video/83677-managing-color-global-supply-chain-canadian-tire-retail/

2017 01 19

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__Pearson’s trading update confirmed [Media Analysts] long-held concern that “students were no longer paying for expensive [print] textbooks and moving to cheaper [digital-online] options, particularly rentals”. “This has now proven to be the case but it has taken management several years to publicly accept the impact,” [ suggest reading what Liberum analyst Ian Whittaker has said about the publishing industry and Pearson Education since 2012 when CEO Marjorie Scardino left and John Fallon became CEO ] _

Pearson handed a lesson by falling US college enrolment

ft.com

Digital alternatives posing long-term threat to textbook market

__Dire news headlines aside, here’s an update on Media Analysts’ view _ “A total of 19 analysts have released a research note on Pearson PLC. Five analysts rating the company a strong buy, seven analysts rating the company a buy, five analysts rating the company a hold, five analysts rating the company a underperform, and finally one analyst rating the company a sell with a 12-month price target of 883.95GBX” _ http://breakingfinancenews.com/investing/liberum-capital-announced-pearson-plc-lonpson-keeping-its-stock-price-target-at-360-00gbx-today/159658/

__OCUFA’s recommendations to the Standing Committee include: Increasing per-student funding for Ontario’s universities to match the average for the rest of Canada; Making a commitment to supporting faculty renewal, including full-time faculty hiring that brings Ontario’s student-faculty ratio in line with the rest of Canada and replacing retiring faculty with tenure-stream positions; Ensuring fairness for contract faculty by strengthening employment and labour laws; Rejecting the use of punitive perfor. . ._ http://ocufa.on.ca/assets/2017-OCUFA-Pre-Budget-Submission.pdf

2017 01 21

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__David Wiley Production Quality Rant serves as a ‘thought leadership’ pass-fail test _ https://soundcloud.com/kelsey-wiens/cc-canada-fireside-chat

__David Wiley’s ‘proxies of quality’ premise [1:16:05] serves as the thought leadership test – A pass from those who agree with this argument [i.e. David Porter at BCcampus, and now as eCampusOntario CEO] – or a fail from those who do not For me, the ‘OER Quality Standards’ blog in 2012 first created the tension of personal values and truth – With respect, I still listen, though not because I agree _ https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2568 _

2017 01 11

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__David Wiley, OER evangelist / marketer, Blogs his Thoughts on Cengage’s MindTap ACE _By design, David’s messages build tension with a premise, ‘Open is Good & © is Bad’, and a creative marketing opportunity to introduce a novel meme into followers’ consciousness [MindTap ACE is an OER vaccine] _ am fascinated by this mission, his stairway to . . .

__Thoughts on Cengage’s MindTap ACE by david on January 18, 2017 _ https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4882 _ Cengage recently announced a new offering called MindTap ACE that includes OER and is now available in pilot. I haven’t had access to review the offering yet, but you can see some screenshots in the video linked above. The video clearly shows Cengage content listed for each topic, followed by some OER.

2017 01 20

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__The crisis engulfing Pearson Plc deepened after the education company cut its profit forecast and predicted years of gloom in the U.S. market, forcing it to slash its dividend and put its stake in the iconic Penguin Random House book business up for sale to raise cash. _ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-18/pearson-withdraws-2018-profit-goal-will-exit-penguin-venture

__Pearson today announced _1. We are accelerating work to simplify our product technology platform and enhancing our courseware service capabilities with £50m of additional investment, which will remove barriers to faster product innovation, accelerate our product roadmap by two years and drive faster adoption of institution-wide Digital Direct Access for Pearson courseware. _2. We are increasing our participation in the courseware rental market, by: a. reducing eBook rental prices by up to 50% across 2,000 titles – making digital rental the best option for price-conscious students. b. launching our own print rental program, piloting with an initial group of 50 titles made available through Pearson’s approved rental partners, ensuring Pearson is paid more often for the usage of our courseware. If successful we will scale this program rapidly. __https://www.pearson.com/news/media/news-announcements/2017/01/pearson-january-trading-update.html

2017 01 18

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__RGD’s case studies highlight the thought, research and insight involved in developing a project, providing details on challenges, solutions and results that often occur through the design process. __

RGD’s Jury identifies top case studies submitted by RGDs in 2016

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05/01/17

Each week, RGD features a project case study by a Certified RGD Member in our RGD Word e-newsletter and on the website. After reviewing those submitted in 2016, four industry professionals with a business/media background have identified the case studies they feel best articulate the design process and demonstrate the value design can bring to business.

RGD’s case studies highlight the thought, research and insight involved in developing a project, providing details on challenges, solutions and results that often occur through the design process. By establishing an archive of case studies that cover a wide range of projects, RGD’s goal is to build understanding and respect for the role of design in business and put a spotlight on the specific objectives and deliverables that can be addressed through the power of design.

– See more at: https://www.rgd.ca/2017/01/05/business-leaders-identify-top-rgd-case-studies-of-2016.php#sthash.mzaryNsz.dpuf

2017 01 17

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__David Wiley – Of Analogies Learning and Weather _ “On reflection, the impact of learner agency on the learning process makes me doubt that we can ever be as good at predicting learning [ ref: Keith Devlin ] __ thought-leadership in doubt

2017 01 18

Naza Djafarova

Director, Digital Educational Strategies, The Chang, Ryerson University

Great ideas from students on eLearning! eCampusOntario Students Experience Design. #eLearningSeminar2017

__Thanks Naza _ here’s a link to Giulia Forsythe’s graphic _ https //www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/31543370693/in/photostream/

2017 01 18

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__“Maria is a creative, forward-thinking leader who has earned the deep respect of Members of Congress as well as intellectual property experts around the world,” said YS Chi, Chairman of the AAP Board of Directors. “The Board believes she is an excellent choice for President and CEO as she brings to AAP considerable expertise in many of the issues facing the publishing industry.” __

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) Names Maria A. Pallante as President and CEO

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Washington, DC; Jan. 12, 2017 – The Association of American Publishers (AAP) announced today that the former United States Register of Copyrights, Maria A. Pallante, will succeed Tom Allen who is retiring as President and CEO. Pallante, who will join AAP on January 17, 2017, is widely-known as an intellectual property expert with a distinguished record of public service.

“Maria is a creative, forward-thinking leader who has earned the deep respect of Members of Congress as well as intellectual property experts around the world,” said YS Chi, Chairman of the AAP Board of Directors. “The Board believes she is an excellent choice for President and CEO as she brings to AAP considerable expertise in many of the issues facing the publishing industry.”

Pallante headed the U.S. Copyright Office from June 1, 2011 – October 29, 2016.

2017 01 12

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__Frank Romano looks back at early variable data printing _

. . . that takes me back to the days of earliest innovations in direct mail digital printing at Yorkville Press _ http //https://lnkd.in/efR42jT _ Rich Bassett _ Bob Westrope _ Angelo Ferrara _ Melanie Cunningham

2017 01 16

Naza Djafarova

Director, Digital Educational Strategies, The Chang, Ryerson University

2016: The Year I Failed Retirement

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The new age of retirement

I decided in April 2014 ‘to stop (nearly) all professional activities from now onwards’. I argued that ‘it is dangerous for a consultant to become adrift from the reality of teaching and management’ and ‘this is not a profession where you can be half in and half out.’

In particular, I wanted to write a ‘farewell’ book that would try to capture my expertise for those who might benefit from 40 years of teaching online and at a distance. I completed that book, Teaching in a Digital Age, almost exactly a year later, in April, 2015.

I realised that this might entail some follow-up, such as appearances at conferences or webinars to publicize the book, but that ought to be over by the end of 2015. 2016 would be the year to finally let go, play lots of golf, travel with my wife and fix all the things around the house that I’ve been putting off for years.

So how is that going? . . .

2016 12 20

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Curriculum Associates: Blended Success Story

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Tom Vander Ark Getting Smart CEO

Curriculum Associates may be the most important EdTech success story you don’t know about.

It’s headquartered in North Billerica, Massachusetts, not in Silicon Valley. The former workbook publisher has never taken venture capital, instead bootstrapping an adaptive learning business from scratch. In four years, the company has grown into a $190 million blended learning giant. They extended their impact exponentially while traditional publishers shrank each year.

2017 01 12

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Reimagining the Role of Technology in Higher Education, National Educational Technology Plan NETP, US Office of Educational Technology

__equally relevant in Higher Education in Canada technology enabled transformation

_ https://tech.ed.gov/higherednetp/ _ https://tech.ed.gov/files/2017/01/Higher-Ed-NETP.pdf

Reimagining the Role of Technology in Higher Education-2016 National Educational Technology Plan NETP: Higher Education Supplement to the National Education Technology Plan – Office of Educational Technology; Higher-Ed-NETP.pdf

2017 01 01

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Karen Howe

The Township + Cannes Advisory Board Member

Ageism. Advertising’s other dirty secret.

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I was between gigs awhile ago, bemoaning my fate to an ad titan over a glass of wine. I’d been told by many it was hopeless, I had almost accepted it as fact. After all, I intoned, “I am a woman of a certain age.” He snorted with laughter. “Yes you are. And that’s your greatest advantage. You have a network and wisdom — neither of which you had at 25, and both of which are priceless.”

Buck the trend. Hire those over 45 and you will win in the long run. Here’s why.

2017 01 11

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__Cengage 2017 01 12 launched MindTap ACE, a digital solution that blends curated Open Educational Resources (OER) with Cengage content. Designed to help faculty seamlessly integrate OER into their courses, MindTap ACE expands Cengage’s portfolio of comprehensive learning solutions that use open resources, including MindTap, WebAssign and Learning Objects. News: _ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cengage-launches-mindtap-ace-an-affordable-oer-based-solution-for-higher-education-300390041.html _ Video: _ http://solutions.cengage.com/video-mindtap-ace/

2017 01 12

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Clint Lalonde

Manager, Educational Technologies, BCcampus

UVic students make push for open textbooks – News

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The high cost of post secondary textbooks is hurrying the advent of free textbooks though the online model of open educational resources (OER).

On Thursday and Friday of last week Maxwell Nicholson, the campaign and community relations director of the University of Victoria Student Society, and UVSS director at large Carl Haynes greeted students with their #Textbookbroke promotion as they exited the UVic Bookstore.

Students could post the dollar amount from their purchase on a whiteboard and pose with it on social media for a chance to win $300 towards textbooks.

“We’re trying to raise awareness of the malpractice of how [textbook] publishers stifle competition to protect profits, forcing students to lose tons of money from an unnecessary update,” Nicholson said.

__You are likely aware of this new Florida law, Clint. It is a worthwhile model for others to consider _ The purpose of Florida House Bill 7019 Education Access and Affordability is to promote public awareness of the cost of higher education and to specify the responsibilities of Florida colleges and universities in relation to textbook affordability. Summary and Full Text link: _ http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7513/urlt/7019-16.pdf _ https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2016/7019/BillText/er/PDF

2017 01 09

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__Alan Levine is offering an Attribution Tool he created for Flickr Photos _

I often feel lonely fighting for attribution for photos openly shared for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Beyond advocating to a level of boring people, I have built a simple browser bookmarklet tool that makes the process of getting an attribution statement for web sites a simple cut and paste operation.

It’s more or less something I made for myself, because the round trip from flickr to my blog editor was about a 6 step round trip of cut and paste, and often I was not consistent.

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A Suggestion: use Photoshop to add to EXIF data to Properties and insert copyright and URL within the image [Shown here] and compare with Photo Captions in article

2017 01 08

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__Brookings Institution finds there is virtually no evidence on how different textbooks affect student achievement due to a lack of good data. _How does Ontario collect necessary information from K-12 schools to estimate the impacts of textbook choices on student achievement? _

The impact of math textbooks in California – Brookings Institution

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Executive SummaryTextbooks are one of the most widely used educational inputs, but remarkably little is known about their effects on student learning. This report uses data collected from elementary schools in California to estimate the impacts of mathematics textbook choices on student achievement. We study four of the most popular books in the state from 2008-2013 and find that one—Houghton Mifflin California Math—consistently outperforms the other three. The superior performance of California Math persists up to four years after adoption and shows up in grades 3, 4, and 5.

The textbook impacts we identify are educationally meaningful and come at an extremely low cost. . .

__How does Ontario data collection happen, Can you describe how Ontario might collect necessary information from K-12 schools to estimate the impacts of textbook choices on student achievement? — [&TRY] Count your 1st Connection “Like” as if it would confirm eyeballs-data about who is seeing a comment in this space, here:time

The impact of math textbooks in California | Brookings Institution Houghton Mifflin California Math—consistently outperforms the other three: Big bang for just a few bucks: The impact of math textbooks in California | Brookings Institution; es_20170105_polikoff_evidence_speaks.pdf

2017 01 05

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__Related: To gain a perspective of Ontario Ministry for Advanced Education and Skills Development initiatives in see the Strategic Plans and Call for Proposals of the Ontario Online Learning Consortium / eCampusOntario – Links to Docs _ https://lnkd.in/ecpUS7w _ https://lnkd.in/eXgJfzd _

The Intended Consequences of California’s Online Education Initiative

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Last month we presented two explainer videos on the growing usage of course exchanges, where multiple institutions pool resources in creating or extending online courses.[1] If online courses or programs breaks down the barriers of campus walls and enables anytime, anywhere education, then why not explore how collaboration can open up access and improve quality. While we tend to not write e-Literate about our consulting work through MindWires, in this case we have heard a general interest from other systems to learn more about what the California Online Education Initiative (OEI) at the community college system is doing.

2017 01 08

__Scientific data should be openly accessible to the extent permitted by law and subject to privacy, confidentiality, security, and other appropriate restrictions (e.g., recognizing proprietary interests, business confidential information, and intellectual property rights). Government-supported scientific data should be available without charge whenever feasible. _While these principles do not establish new policy positions, they summarize principles that are articulated in recent policy documents__

Strengthening Global Sharing of Scientific Data and Research Findings

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7 Principles promote access to Federal government-supported scientific data and research findings for international scientific cooperation

Scientific progress and collaboration benefit from an early and continuing commitment to the establishment, description, curation, maintenance, validation, discoverability, accessibility, and distribution of scientific data.
Scientific data should be openly accessible to the extent permitted by law and subject to privacy, confidentiality, security, and other appropriate restrictions (e.g., recognizing proprietary interests, business confidential information, and intellectual property rights).
Government-supported scientific data should be available without charge whenever feasible.
Partners in international science and technology cooperative activities should establish a data management plan at project initiation that considers the full data lifecycle for scientific data.
Federal agencies should encourage technical and legal interoperability to facilitate international sharing of scientific data, using compatible, publicly available and open source formats.
Government-supported scientific data (and publications) should be made openly available as early as possible, with the timing of release and the duration of any exclusive-use period explicitly defined.
Federal agencies should work with international science and technology partners to adopt policies and data standards that encourage open sharing of data for collaborative activities.

2017 01 06

Marketing Communications Specialist – Pearson Education – Toronto

New Position: The Marketing Communications Specialist is responsible for providing…

2016 12 XX

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__Co-hosted by Ryan Merkley, CEO at Creative Commons and David Porter, CEO of E-Campus Ontario on Wed. January 11, 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM in Toronto __

CC Canada Presents: Fireside chat with David Wiley

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Creative Commons Canada presents a fireside chat with David Wiley from Lumen Learning.D…

David Wiley Production Quality Rant, CC Canada Fireside Chat, Ryan Merkley, David Wiley, Kelsey Wiens,: CC Canada Fireside Chat with David Wiley Fireside 2017.01.11 by Kelsey Wiens | Free Listening on SoundCloud; OER Quality Standards; USOE – Science – Utah Science OER Textbooks; 0013189X14550275

2017 01 11

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__The letter states that her comments were ‘delivered in the context of a Canada whose national educational publishing industry has been severely damaged by the ill-advised introduction into the Copyright Modernisation Act, in 2012, of a new ‘fair dealing’ provision for education, and the subsequent adoption of self-defined guidelines by the education sector with the stated aim of replacing the need for licences from Access Copyright or Copibec.’ __

IPA reproaches Canadian minister’s copyright comments

internationalpublishers.org December 22, 2016

The IPA has added its voice to those of the Union of Quebec Writers and Writers (UNEQ), the Canadian National Association of Book Publishers (ANEL) and the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO) in response to troubling comments made by the Minister for Higher Education, Hélène David, on 9 December.

In response to a parliamentary question about whether as Minister of Higher Education and a former Minister of Culture, she would ‘send clear guidelines to Quebec universities to ensure that the creators are respected and that copyright is paid to them’, Minister David asserted that Laval University did things that are comparable (to those of Copibec), that are respectful of copyright, and that it acted ‘in accordance with the copyright principles of the federal government’.

Copibec, which represents authors, creators and publishers, has been involved in a legal dispute with Laval University which in June 2014 implemented an internal copyright policy based on the refusal to pay royalties.

The IPA wrote to the Higher Education Minister, putting the Prime Minister and Culture Minister in copy, reminding her of the importance of a national reproduction rights entity.

2016 12 22

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__What do you want your workplace to be, and how can you make positive change this year? Annelisa Stephan and Greg Albers share a few things they’ve learned from experiments at the Getty __

Making the Workplace We Want

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What strategies for positive change have you tried in your workplace?

__FYI_Over 1,000 posts on the Getty Iris are free to use under a Creative Commons attribution license. This means you’re invited to copy, remix, and adapt the text of the posts for any reason—personal, academic, or commercial—as long as you include a link back to the original post and follow the other license terms. _ http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/getty-blog-creative-commons/ __ Marking images on the Iris as CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, or all rights reserved makes it easy to tell which images can be used [although, not always, as images were unmarked in 1 Thing article]

2017 01 02

Neil McEvoy

Founder of the Cloud Best Practices Network

A major inflection point for addressing Canada’s innovation woes – Very exciting news for the Canadian tech sector

Ottawa plans to boost spending on new tech from Canadian startups

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The federal government is looking to boost the amount it contracts out to startups as part of its attempt to spur on Canada’s emerging technology sector and create economic growth.

Ottawa earmarks just $30-million of its vast $18-billion annual procurement budget to buy new technologies from startups through its Build in Canada Innovation Program (BCIP).

That is not nearly enough, according to Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains. “It’s very modest and we can do better,” he said in an interview. “This is something we’re pushing very hard … I would like to see this in the budget.”

2016 12 27

__This year’s Downes Prize is awarded to Michael Caulfield’s article: New Directions in Open Education _ https //https://lnkd.in/eXJAWaw _ [via Downes: _https://lnkd.in/ex7e6Yn] __ I read Caulfield’s article from the perspective that technology enables our fair dealing/use of copyright materials for personal educational uses _ Open CC Licenses are not a prerequisite to ‘open education-learning-pedagogy’

2016 12 31

__”Well, not exactly moving, but mirroring Internet Archive [https://archive.org/] in Canada”

Facing Possible Threats Under Trump, Internet Archive to Build Server in Canada

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In the wake of Trump’s election, the Internet Archive has announced it will be moving a copy of its archive to Canada. The archive is one of the world’s largest public digital libraries. Part of the site includes the Wayback Machine, which preserves old websites, allowing researchers to access pages deleted by politicians and others. We speak to the founder of the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle.

2016 12 29

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__The question Kent Anderson asked stemmed from discussions in this post _ CC-BY, Copyright, and Stolen Advocacy by Rick Anderson ⋅ Mar 31, 2014 _https://lnkd.in/echYe8y https://lnkd.in/ewS92Sp

Does Creative Commons Make Sense?

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Apr 2, 2014 –

The answer for some is, “Yes.” But those who answer in the affirmative may not be the authors Creative Commons purports to serve.

As noted above, copyright forms the basis of Creative Commons. Without copyright, no author could choose a license, as there would be no license to grant. In choosing a license, an author is making a statement about what she or he is willing to let others do with or to their published and copyrighted work.

Unfortunately, Creative Commons licenses are relatively opaque and difficult to differentiate for the average user. Ask a researcher their initial reaction to a CC BY vs. a CC BY-SA vs. a CC BY-NC-SA license, and you’re going to be met with blank stares. However, authors tend to understand copyright to at least a functional level — that is, if I have copyright, I have the ability to protect my works from everything except educational and similar benign uses. For wonks like us, we know there’s a lot more to it, but that’s actually a good functional understanding for most academics. Copyright is generally better understood.

__Can anyone point me to online source of Creative Commons 2015 IRS Form 990? [non-profit org tax return] __ Public reports – Creative Commons not up to date _ https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Public_reports _

__When updating CC’s Public Report page, the Creative Commons Audited Financial Statements 123114 [for 2014] _ https://www.guidestar.org/ViewEdoc.aspx?eDocId=2527510&approved=True _ should be added along with information for 2015 – financials for CC Canadian subsidiary 0941176 BC Ltd. included

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__Adweek’s compilation of Agency Holiday Cards 2016 – ’tis the time of the year when agency people push all the client work to the side and try to make a cool, funny, sweet or poignant holiday card. Here are 73 cards, alphabetical by agency:

__Tidings of discomfort and joy _ [good for you David Leonard!] McCann’s CEO shares the holiday spirit from a compromising position for Prostate Cancer Canada. _ http://stimulantonline.ca/2016/12/22/tidings-of-discomfort-and-joy/ _ via Karen Howe

2016 12 20

Karen Howe

The Township + Cannes Advisory Board Member

Tidings of discomfort and joy. Kudos to McCann’s Dave Leonard.

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2016 12 20

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Dr. Marie Bountrogianni

Dean

Why Canada opts for openness

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Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada, explains why his country will not turn inwards as globalisation comes under fire

The Americas

In 2017 Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary. For a century and a half, one simple promise has been at the heart of Canada’s success: that here, everyone has an opportunity to build a better, more prosperous life.

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University of Toronto

Educational technology is truly changing how students and professors engage with each other, says U of T Professor Susan McCahan.

Turned on and tuned in – it’s an e-volution at U of T

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Back in the day, students would go to the library to access study materials for their unive…

2016 11 25

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Kelvin Bentley, Ph.D.

Vice President of Academic Affairs for the TCC Connect Campus at Tarrant County College

Why isn’t every college implementing similar programs given the simple fact that college continues to be too costly for our students?

UWF expands Textbook Affordability Program to remove financial barriers for students

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The University of West Florida recently expanded its Textbook Affordability Program after a successful pilot launch. The program, implemented by the Office of the Provost and the John C. Pace Library, aims to reduce student costs by ensuring access to course-required print textbooks.

“It is important for institutional units to contribute to student success,” said Robert Dugan, dean of libraries at UWF. “The UWF Textbook Affordability Program was planned and implemented to provide access to the textbooks undergraduate students need to succeed in their courses by removing textbook costs as a barrier.”

To date, the University has purchased one copy of every required print textbook for every section of 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 level courses and made them available for students to loan. If in the process of monitoring queues, a book is requested five times while on loan to another student, the library purchases a second copy of that book.

__Florida House Bill HB 7019 Education Access and Affordability [passed 2016] modifies requirements related to higher education textbooks and instructional materials affordability and promotes public awareness on higher education costs _ http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7513/urlt/7019-16.pdf _ Full Text: _ https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2016/7019/BillText/er/PDF_

2016 12 07

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Chris Olson

Senior Vice President Global Supply Chain Management at McGraw-Hill Education

Students Are Embracing Technology in Higher Ed. Where Do We Go From Here?

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Today millions of college students are embracing digital learning technology. This was made especially clear by McGraw-Hill Education’s recent 2016 Digital Study Trends Survey. The results show just how central technology has become to the student experience:

Four out of five students say digital learning technology is contributing to improvements in their grades.

Eighty-eight percent say their smartphones have been helpful for studying.

Most college students agree that digital learning technology should adapt to their unique way of learning (89 percent) and be individualized (80 percent).

The majority of college students surveyed (61 percent) prefer to enroll in classes that use digital learning technology.

So where do we go from here?

2016 12 20

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__The report examines Australia’s Intellectual Property (IP) system in detail, and makes recommendations to improve its operation. _ http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/intellectual-property/report/intellectual-property-overview.pdf

__IP arrangements need to ensure that creators and inventors are rewarded for their efforts, but in doing so they must: __foster creative endeavour and investment in IP that would not otherwise occur __only provide the incentive needed to induce that additional investment or endeavour __resist impeding follow–on innovation, competition and access to goods and services. tags: Australian Governmnent Productivity Commission, Intellectual Property Arrangements

__Adam Suckling, chief executive of the Copyright Agency – “The Productivity Commission’s copyright changes would decimate Australia’s creative industries” _ http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/the-productivity-commissions-copyright-changes-would-decimate-australias-creative-industries-20161220-gtevie.html _ “Productivity Commission’s recommendations attack Australian creators” _ http://copyright.com.au/2016/12/productivity-commissions-recommendations-attack-australian-creators/

2016 09 23

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__Online learning in 2016: Tony Bates personal review of what was of particular interest in online learning during 2016 via 38 posts he wrote during the year. _ http://www.tonybates.ca/2016/12/19/online-learning-in-2016-a-personal-review/

Tony on Open education and the development of open publishing and open educational resources – “[I] conclude that the OER ‘movement’ has far too narrow a concept of open-ness and that in its place we need an open pedagogy into which open educational resources are again just one component, and perhaps not the most significant.”

__links don’t work at this time but here are the 3 re: Open education _ Acorns to oaks? British Columbia continues its progress with OERs [http://www.tonybates.ca/2016/09/23/british-columbia-continues-its-progress-with-oers/] _ Talking numbers about open publishing and online learning [http://www.tonybates.ca/2016/06/24/talking-numbers-about-open-publishing-and-online-learning/] _ Towards an open pedagogy for online learning [http://www.tonybates.ca/2016/11/27/towards-an-open-pedagogy-for-online-learning/]

2016 12 19

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George Veletsianos

Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology and Associate Professor at Royal Roads University

New post: Learning Design at Pearson

Learning Design at Pearson

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Last week, a reporter from EdSurge reached out to me to shed some light on what Pearson called their Learning Design Principles. The EdSurge article is here, but below is a more detailed rough draft of the points that I made to share. I am posting them here for a fuller picture of some of my thoughts.

2016 12 21

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David Bean

Associate Director, Systems at University of Waterloo

University websites: The so-so, the bad, and the egregious

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Yes that’s right, it’s time to take a look at university websites and why they are perennially difficult and unpopular. For quite a while I’ve been meaning to write a post about this; it’s a problem that’s ongoing, and one that generates much wailing and gnashing of teeth among regular users of the sites, including current students and faculty. Yet it’s something that never seems to change, or if it does change, it’s merely “upgraded” to a system with new and equally infuriating flaws.

So why are university websites often terrible? Or, to rephrase that, why are these sites apparently impossible to construct in ways that work for their users?

2016 07 04

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__“I want to do something else, I think I’m going to start a new company.” EdSurge reports on conversation with Ferreira _ https://lnkd.in/eQ8j5Nq __ https://lnkd.in/etSj8ps

Jose Ferreira Steps Down As CEO of Knewton; Stays on Board to Help Further Propel Company Mission of Adaptive Learning for All | Knewton

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Ryan Prichard, Knewton Chief Technology Officer, Assumes President and Acting CEO Position (New York, Dec. 20, 2016) – Noting that Knewton, the pioneering education technology company he founded eight years ago is now considered the “world leader in the adaptive learning industry” and “well on its way to achieving its mission of revolutionizing how students learn,” Jose Ferreira announced that he is stepping down as the company’s chief executive officer. Ferreira will remain on Knewton’s Board of Directors and help guide the company as it continues to grow.

Jose Ferreira Steps Down as Knewton CEO: Jose Ferreira Steps Down as Knewton CEO, Eyes Next Education Startup | EdSurge News; Jose Ferreira Steps Down As CEO of Knewton; Stays on Board to Help Further Propel Company Mission of Adaptive Learning for All | Knewton

2016 12 20

__Wayne Mackintosh – “This insightful collection of essays explores the ways in which open education can democratise access to education for all. It is a rich resource that offers both research and case studies to relate the application of open technologies and approaches in education settings around the world. A must-read for practitioners, policy-makers, scholars and students in the field of education.” _ http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/531/open-education–international-perspectives-in-higher-education

__David Wiley wrote the Foreword in hopes of inspiring others to feel what he feels is the value of using an open license and sharing ones copyrighted creative works _ He has also posted it in his blog

Openness as a Value

_ http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4828 _

__Encourage others to add to the list of counterpoints to Wiley’s thinking, as Stephen Downes does . . . “As always, I argue that people should adopt whatever license best suits their interests. I continue to fail to understand why David Wiley doesn’t respect that choice”

Wiley’s Misguided Advocacy – Stephen Downes

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David Wiley once again launches into advocacy for the CC-by license. We’ve been through this many times, so I’ll keep it relatively brief. His text is italicized.

> There is a growing consensus among those who work in open education that the Creative Commons Attribution (BY) License is our preferred license.

No there isn’t. The list of organizations hasn’t grown over the years, and the number people from this list remains stable.

2016 12 18

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__Michael Feldstein wrote this excellent article about Pearson Education’s Learning Design Principles __

Pearson Releases a Significant Learning Design Aid

mfeldstein.com

Last week, Pearson announced the release of some resources they have created around science-based learning design. (Full disclosure: Pearson is a client of our consulting company, although we have not consulted with them on the subject of this post.) The resources in the release include the following:

A 102-page rubric the company has started using for evaulating curricular products based on their effective use of learning design principles—released under a Creative Commons license
A white paper describing how they are beginning to apply these principles to their own product designs
A few links to descriptions of early examples of these principles as they have been applied in released products.
A blog post providing some more background and perspective by David Porcaro, Pearson’s Director of Learning Design, whose team is behind this effort.

2016 12 18

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Stephen Downes tweets_ “Only a small % of the stuff I save for later makes it into OLDaily – I’ve started sharing the unfiltered list”

_ https://getpocket.com/users/*em14818314579534611/feed/all __

And I’ve recently been considering adding my Bookmarks to my WordPress blog archive of Linkedin posts – shown here beside Stephen’s list, _ https //dongorges.wordpress.com/

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2016 12 10

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__”Congress Must Fix DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] to Ensure Service Provider Cooperation to Protect Copyright Online_Innocently or not, the ease of discovery, access and distribution increasingly associated with the unauthorized presence of many copyrighted works on the Internet promotes conduct reflecting a mistaken view that their mere availability online justifies acquisition and use of such works without giving copyright owners the customary right to fair market value in exchange._ http://newsroom.publishers.org/aap-letter-to-president-elect-donald-trump/

AAP Letter to President Elect Donald Trump

__Scholarly Communication and Copyright Office at George Mason University Libraries tweets “If the language in this @AmericanPublish letter doesn’t stir faculty action to publish OA & use/produce @open_textbooks, what will? __ “So agree. Calling out libraries and archives publicly like this is telling…” tweets SPARC’s Heather Joseph

Ironically, salaries earned by Creative Talent employed in Educational Publishing pales when compared with the well-paid employees within public sector institutions, non-profits, Foundations . . . advocates within the ‘open community’ – as

2016 12 15

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__Who is Keypoint Intelligence? Keypoint Intelligence is a brand built upon two great companies, Buyers Lab and InfoTrends. __ Barb Pellow shares the journey that BLI and InfoTrends took to evolve into Keypoint Intelligence. It also outlines the steps that we will be taking to formally establish our combined brand in the market.

The Branding Journey

Defining a brand, especially after an acquisition, is a process of self-discovery. We took the following key steps to guide our branding journey:

1. Start with Customers

Every branding process should start with reaching out to your customers to determine their thoughts and views about your company. Customers of both Buyers Lab and InfoTrends were asked to describe how they felt about the brands and what they perceived as the bene?ts and challenges of unifying the brands. What we learned is that both companies possessed high level of brand equity. In speaking to our customers, one of the key takeaways was that neither brand should be lost in the process. As a result, the members of senior management decided to establish an overarching brand that captured the essence of the combined companies, but kept the name of each intact as divisions of Keypoint Intelligence.

2. Engage Internal Staff

Successful brands are aligned with their organizations’ short- and long-term strategies. Your staff members are a key resource for realistically defining your brand messaging based on your actual capabilities. Keep in mind that your brand promise needs to meet customers’ expectations.

For our branding effort, we conducted a workshop with staff from InfoTrends and Buyers Lab. During the event, ideas were freely exchanged, opinions were shared, and insights were gained. This event enabled us to clearly define the following foundational elements to develop our brand:

Our mission
The benefits and features of our products and services
What customers already think about InfoTrends and BLI
The qualities we wanted associated with the combined entity

3. Define the Differentiation

Understanding key points of competitive differentiation is critical to a brand. During this step, organizations must develop an understanding of where they are in relation to their competitors. We spent time developing our unique value proposition during this stage. When it comes to effectively positioning your brand, you must clearly identify what sets you apart from your competitors and use this as a guide for branding, marketing, and messaging.

4. Create a Message Map

An essential step in brand development is creating a message map. For those unfamiliar with message mapping, it is a framework that is used to create compelling, relevant messages for various audience segments and for internal organizational alignment. Whether you are launching your company, rebranding, introducing the next big product/service, or preparing for other major marketing campaigns, messaging mapping is an important step in effective communication.

Message Mapping for Keypoint Intelligence

The message map helped our team define the key messages that needed to be communicated to our customer base. The most important component of the message mapping process was determining what our brand meant to us. We viewed this as defining the “soul” of our brand, and it resulted in developing the following fundamental beliefs:

WE BELIEVE that good data leads to good decisions.
WE BELIEVE in honesty and candidness.
WE BELIEVE in the value of listening and learning.
WE BELIEVE in promoting a family culture.
WE BELIEVE in always being focused, present, and available.
WE BELIEVE that having total trust is essential.
WE BELIEVE in enabling and supporting success.
WE BELIEVE in the power of collaboration and teamwork.

In addition, we identified two critical terms that should be associated with Keypoint Intelligence. The first is confidence. As a combined organization, we want our customers to feel like they are working with the most reliable and unbiased information so they can make the best decisions for their businesses. The second is partner. We want our organization to continually convey a deep understanding of our customers, their products, and their business objectives. A sharp focus on these areas establishes us as a true and meaningful PARTNER to our customers in every sense of the word. We want our customers to understand that they can trust us to always tell the truth, even when it’s tough to hear.

5. Establish a Clear Brand Strategy

Another important function of the message map is that it establishes a clear brand strategy, which provides the clarity that staff members need to make the brand successful. It tells them how to act, how to win, and how to meet the organization’s goals. Our efforts resulted in a decision to brand BLI/InfoTrends under the parent company Keypoint Intelligence. The name captures the following critical messages that we want to convey to the market:

We blend key insights with pointed information to give our customers an unrivaled set of tools for success. We are the best partner to be there at the moment of truth when critical decisions are made.

Our branding messages are built on the premise that the market clarity and insight we provide will give our customer base a greater confidence in the decisions that they make. We want our customers to view us as a partner that goes deep beyond the surface—transforming data into intelligence, and testing into tools to give our clients a competitive advantage in the market.

According to Deanna Flanick, Chief Revenue Officer of Keypoint Intelligence, “Our new brand identity is a strong representation of what sets us apart in the global digital imaging intelligence marketplace. Our new double diamond mark represents the two companies coming together, and the vibrant orange spot where they overlap indicates a ‘Keypoint,’ one of the many deep insights that only we can provide.”

Keypoint Intelligence’s Logo

6. Apply and Execute

This step is where the pedal hits the metal in building out and activating your brand. It is the execution phase, and all of us at Keypoint Intelligence are in this phase now. We are currently updating our website, signage, business cards, and deliverable templates. Beyond the cosmetics of a rebranding, though, we are also uniting our strengths across the organization to meet our brand promise to customers and the greater industry that we serve. That means ensuring that we deliver intelligence to you… Keypoint Intelligence!

2016 12 08

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__Eight highly-visible organizations today announced the launch of the Open Research Funders Group, a partnership designed to increase access to research outputs. With nearly $5 billion in combined annual grants conferred, these organizations are committed to using their positions to foster more open sharing of research articles and data. _ http //www.orfg.org/news/

Inaugural members of the Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the American Heart Association, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

“The Open Research Funders Group provides a unique opportunity for funders to speak with a single voice regarding open access, open data and open science,” said Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “It amplifies our shared commitment to accelerating access to the work we fund and the knowledge it generates.”

2016 12 15

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__A conversation about evolving content platforms and how designers are investigating new ways of connecting users with information.

Future By Design: The Future of Content panel discussion

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Published on Dec 1, 2016

Panelists Winston Binch (Deutsch North America), Toria Emery (Sequence) and Caroline Sinders (BuzzFeed Eyebeam)

In today’s creative landscape, designers often face the tension of content vs. context. How does the user’s experience of a design influence the message, and vice versa? This conversation changes as technology evolves beyond traditional media and new methods of interaction are introduced, like virtual and augmented reality. Join a conversation about evolving content platforms and how designers are investigating new ways of connecting users with information.

2016 12 01

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What is OER?

To raise aware about OER, The Hewlett Foundation funded this series of Videos produced by The Council of Chief State School Officers: __1. What is OER? 2:30 __2. How can OER help educators? 6:24 __3. How can I find OER? 1:40 __4. What does the research say about OER? 2:11 __5. What is an open license and how does it work? 1:43 __6. Why OER? 1:32 __

2016 12 14

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__”The Delhi High Court has ruled [bound by the strict wordings of section 52(1)(i), which provided no such traditional fair use restriction] that there is no restriction on how much of a book can be photocopied, so long as course demands

Publishers vs Pupils: Delhi High Court has struck a blow for the right to copy copyrighted material

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The Delhi High Court has ruled that there is no restriction on how much of a book can be photocopied, so long as course demands it.

__”At the heart of the dispute is Section 52(1)(i) of the Copyright Act which allows for the “reproduction of any work” by a “teacher or a pupil

__”On the issue of whether Section 52(1)(i) allows for reproduction only in the classroom or whether it can be extended to photocopying through

Related Bookmarks

D E L H I Delhi High Court verdict on publishers’ appeal in Delhi University photocopy case – Livemint: Delhi HC reserves verdict on publishers’ appeal in photocopy case – Livemint; DU photocopy case: Delhi HC restores copyright suit by publishers – Livemint; DU Photocopying Appeal: Who Said What And Why? | Live Law; DU photocopy case: court restores copyright suit by publishers for trial – The Hindu; High Court Restores Suit of foreign Publishers Against DU Photocopy Shop – News18; Photocopying allowed under law for educational use: Delhi HC | The Indian Express; High Court lets DU shop photocopy textbooks, but copyright battle isn’t over yet | catchnews; ‘Copying texts for study doesn’t violate copyright’ – Times of India; DU photocopy shop copyright row: HC rules in favour of Rameshwari printers; all you need to know – The Financial Express.; DU Photocopy Judgment.pdf; DU Photocopy Judgment.pdf – Google Drive; DU Photocopy Case: Delhi HC Disposes The Appeal Saying No Triable Issue, Restores Suit But Refuses Interim Injunction | Live Law; A Critique Of Delhi High Court Judgment In DU Photocopy Case | Live Law; University of Manitoba – VP Admin – Office of Fair Practices and Legal Affairs – Copyright Office – UM Copyright Guidelines; Publishers vs Pupils: Delhi High Court has struck a blow for the right to copy copyrighted material; Academic Publishing Houses Lose Appeal Against Delhi University & Photocopy Shop – infojustice; The IPKat: To photocopy or not: Delhi High Courts grants universities carte blanche to photocopy for educational use; A day in the life of Rameshwari Photocopy Service shop, Delhi University | The Indian Express; Photocopying on campus: Ctrl C, Ctrl V | The Indian Express; The Appeal Bench’s decision Delhi university photocopying case: fair use re-visited – Lexology

2016 12 13

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__eCampusOntario Strategic Plan

Online and technology-enabled learning continues to evolve and grow providing increasing access and opportunities for learners to pursue education in flexible ways to meet their needs. In 2013, the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development (MAESD) committed $72 million over five years to support the development of eCampusOntario and the provision of high quality online learning experiences for Ontario’s postsecondary students.

eCampusOntario initiated the process to build its fi rst strategic plan in late Fall of

2015. After an open call for proposals, StrategyCorp was selected to guide planning

activities. Foremost among these activities was a full schedule of consultations with

eCampusOntario stakeholders. Multiple focus groups were hosted with students and

with member institutions. In addition, surveys were sent to a large and diverse group

of learners, as well as to every publicly assisted college and university in Ontario. A

separate Faculty Supports Project collected feedback and input from faculty and

online learning practitioners across the province.

The eCampusOntario Strategic Plan maps the direction for eCampusOntario to the

end of March 2018. This document represents a summary of this plan.

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DBW’s Ted Hill on ‘Beyond the Book’ – Digital Book World

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Beyond the Book is a podcast hosted by Chris Kenneally of Copyright Clearance Cent…

: DBW’s Ted Hill on ‘Beyond the Book’ – Digital Book World; Digital Book World 2017 – Home; Digital Book World 2017 – Agenda; A New Digital Book World Ahead | CCC’s Beyond the Book

2016 12 12

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__Maria Popova picks The Best Children’s Books of 2016 and The Greatest Science Books of 2016 __ illustrations from ‘The Polar Bear’ . . . which is on Both Lists!

The Best Children’s Books of 2016 – Brain Pickings: The Best Children’s Books of 2016 – Brain Pickings

The Greatest Science Books of 2016 – Brain Pickings: The Greatest Science Books of 2016 – Brain Pickings

2016 12 12

Paul Jacobelli

President, EdTek Services, Inc.

I know it’s Monday but still… put on your thinking caps and give this a slow read.

Education and accelerated change: The imperative for design learning

Heather McGowan on LinkedIn

Note: As we enter a period marked by the greatest velocity of change in hum…

: Education and accelerated change: The imperative for design learning | Heather McGowan | Pulse | LinkedIn

__”It is obvious that accelerated rates of technological and social change will require more workers to focus on problem finding and problem framing, rather than simply problem solving— and certainly on solution execution. [-] Rather than assuming that the purpose of education is simply the transfer of fixed knowledge, design learning facilitates the development of the entrepreneurial dispositions and skills necessary to adapt to rapid social and technological change.”

2016 12 12

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‘My stomach dropped’: Artist discovers ‘stolen’ work on shirts being sold at Winners

‘My stomach dropped’: Artist discovers ‘stolen’ work on shirts being sold at Winners – Toronto – CBC News

Artist Jody Edwards couldn’t believe her eyes when she walked into her local Winners and saw a rack…

__Too bad, Jody, if it were still possible to add a comment to this CBC article it would be to check out your website and discover all of the fabulous art you offer for Sale – It’s gift-buying season! – find a piece you love and buy it – Original Feather Watercolors and Nature Studies by jodyvanB _

Jody Edwards Art: Original Feather Watercolors and Nature Studies by jodyvanB; Jody Edwards Art; jody edwards (@jodyvanb) | Twitter

2016 12 12

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Is That All There Is? Higher Education’s Struggle to Leverage Digital Teaching and Learning

Keith Hampson, PhD on LinkedIn

“What would become of such a child of the 17th and 18th centuries, …

Is That All There Is? Higher Education’s Struggle to Leverage Digital Teaching and Learning | Keith Hampson, PhD | Pulse | LinkedIn

__You both are likely very aware of the interesting case study [via e-Literate series _ http://mfeldstein.com/ut-austin-smocs-know-whether-work/ _ ] about the University of Texas Synchronous Massive Online Courses [large lecture-Introductory Course]. . . it “does present some positive impressions from faculty who have taught SMOCs, from staff who support them, and from one student’s experience”

2016 12 11

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Regional Sales Supervisor at Nelson Education

How to Identify a Good Sales Rep

Richard R. Hooper on LinkedIn

Earlier this week I read a very interesting article by Peter Smith, titled “Why do we hate (our own) sales people?” Not only is it very insightful…

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2016 12 11

__The article posted includes a link to the Court’s Judgement document as well as a link to a critique of the previous ruling by Justice Endlaw _

DU Photocopy Case: Delhi HC Disposes The Appeal Saying No Triable Issue, Restores Suit But Refuses Interim Injunction | Live Law

__Copyright and Fair Dealing Exemptions of the Canadian Copyright Act will be reviewed-updated next year. _ This [ http://umanitoba.ca/copyright/copyright_basics.html#Fair_Dealing_Exemption ] is a Canadian University’s typical description of Fair Dealing . . . “To qualify for Fair Dealing, two tests must be passed. First, the “dealing” must be for a purpose stated in the Copyright Act: [see list] The second test is that the dealing must be “fair”. [see factors]

Delhi HC reserves verdict on publishers’ appeal in photocopy case – Livemint

DU photocopy case: Delhi HC restores copyright suit by publishers – Livemint

DU Photocopying Appeal: Who Said What And Why? | Live Law

DU photocopy case: court restores copyright suit by publishers for trial – The Hindu

High Court Restores Suit of foreign Publishers Against DU Photocopy Shop – News18

Photocopying allowed under law for educational use: Delhi HC | The Indian Express

High Court lets DU shop photocopy textbooks, but copyright battle isn’t over yet | catchnews

‘Copying texts for study doesn’t violate copyright’ – Times of India

DU photocopy shop copyright row: HC rules in favour of Rameshwari printers; all you need to know – The Financial Express.

DU Photocopy Judgment.pdf

DU Photocopy Judgment.pdf – Google Drive

DU Photocopy Case: Delhi HC Disposes The Appeal Saying No Triable Issue, Restores Suit But Refuses Interim Injunction | Live Law

A Critique Of Delhi High Court Judgment In DU Photocopy Case | Live Law

University of Manitoba – VP Admin – Office of Fair Practices and Legal Affairs – Copyright Office – UM Copyright Guidelines

__The suit is restored for trial on the issue of fact [-] by considering whether the inclusion of the copyrighted work in the course pack was justified by the purpose of the course pack i.e. for instructional use by the teacher to the class and this would warrant an analysis of the course pack with reference to the objective of the course, the course content and the list of suggested readings given by the teacher to the students.” __

DU photocopy case: court restores copyright suit by publishers for trial

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Says expert evidence needed to analyse course packs and their objective

__Related: A Canadian copyright / fair dealing case is yet unresolved “Access Copyright v. York U – The Final Trial Arguments Are Set to Unfold ” _ http://excesscopyright.blogspot.ca/2016/06/access-copyright-v-york-u-final-trial.html

2016 12 11

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George Veletsianos

Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology and Associate Professor at Royal Roads University

Video: A review of the effectiveness and perceptions of OER as compared to textbooks

__Thanks George. Consider creating a video to make comparisons that actually show & point out the differences between pages of content in the Commercial Textbooks and OER which were used by the Control and Treatment groups in this case study / Research by John Hilton et al. _ http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2686/3967

2016 12 05

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Marketing Manager at Nelson Education

I love these waters!!

2016 12 06

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You’ve heard of Instructional Design, but what do Instructional Designers actually do?

Instructional Design 101 Part 3: What Do Instructional Designers Do?

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Instructional Design 101 Part 3: What Do Instructional Designers Do?

2016 12 06

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__The Delhi high court on Monday reserved its judgment on an appeal brought by a group of international publishers against an order allowing a photocopy shop in the Delhi University (DU) campus to sell course packs using material published by them. __

Delhi HC reserves verdict on publishers’ appeal in photocopy case

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The HC reserved judgement on a plea brought by publishers against an order allowing a photo…

2016 12 06

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Scotiabank funds new design thinking research studio at OCAD University

marketwired.comTORONTO, ON–(Marketwired – December 05, 2016) –

Thanks to a $1 million gift from S…

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Scotiabank to Support Entrepreneurship and Business Design Initiatives at UofT’s Rotman School of Management. – Rotman School of Management Design Thinking: Scotiabank to Support Entrepreneurship and Business Design Initiatives at UofT’s Rotman School of Management. – Rotman School of Management

2016 12 05

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__Reality Check: Top University Exec’s $5M salary pales in comparison to salaries of NCAA Football Coaches

Executive Compensation at Private and Public Colleges

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View compensation data on chief executives at public and private nonprofit colleges in the…

Executive Compensation at Private and Public Colleges – The Chronicle of Higher Education: Executive Compensation at Private and Public Colleges – The Chronicle of Higher Education

NCAAF | Coaches | Salaries | USA TODAY Sports: NCAAF | Coaches | Salaries | USA TODAY Sports

2016 12 05

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Visual Communications in Educational Resources, Design, Creative Services, Marketing

__Tony Bates: “The project is now at a critical point in its development. We have secured the support of the institutions, we are ready to pilot the questionnaire, and we are building the institutional database. However, we still need the following . . . ” __

Building a national survey of online learning in Canada

tonybates.ca

Since April I have been leading a small team that has been trying to build from scratch a nation…

Tony Bates, Survey Online Learning in Canada: Building a national survey of online learning in Canada | Tony Bates; Denis Mayer | LinkedIn; Russell Poulin | LinkedIn; Jeff Seaman | LinkedIn; Jeff Seaman | Profile | Babson College; Tricia Donovan | LinkedIn; Tricia Donovan (@triciadonovan) | Twitter; Brian Desbiens, Associate | Promeus; University of Windsor – Governance – Office of the President – President’s Page; Ross H. Paul – Wikipedia

2016 12 05

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SVP Head of Planning

Aging in Adland: The Gray-Hair Phobia That’s Hindering Older Execs

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How ageism in advertising is making it difficult for older advertising professionals to find new jo…

Aging Ad Execs Seeking Jobs Are Struggling to Stay Relevant | News – AdAge

2016 12 05

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__”The Hewlett Foundation would like to communicate the success of our investments and the OER movement more broadly [via] baseline data we have collected where it is currently available.” Source: Hewlett OER Prediction Survey

Hewlett OER Prediction Survey: Online Survey Software | Qualtrics Survey Solutions

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__OER Dashboard not found: To confirm data cited contact Barbara Chow, Program Director, Education – Bchow@hewlett.org – re: “our data indicates” in Hewlett OER Prediction Survey_ https://qlite.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1H7gRWDrz2GfWa9 ___ noted Hewlett OER Report Nov 2016 update – Open_Educational_Resources_December_2015.pdf _ http://www.hewlett.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Open_Educational_Resources_December_2015.pdf _

2016 12 05

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Sharon Wood

President and CEO, Kids Help Phone

As students head into this stressful exam period, they can get help that makes a difference from Good2Talk, a service supported by @KidsHelpPhone.

Postsecondary helpline provides counselling info for students

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Higher Education Is the New Big Business

__The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) is calling on the federal government to lead Canada by investing in an inclusive and innovative economy. See CASA 2016 Advocacy Week Recommendations _ http://www.casa-acae.com/our_2016_advocacy_week_recommendations _

2016 12 01

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Paul Bradley

CEO and Co-Founder – Online+Course Info

What 2,575 US University Websites Told Us About Content Management Systems

onlinecourseinfo.com

We identified the web content management systems in use by 2,575 US universities …

What 2,575 US University Websites Told Us About Content Management Systems

2016 12 04

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David Mahon

Managing Director at LEARNstyle Ltd.

An Awesome Infographic on Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

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Where will Education be in 20 Years?
This is a rare-priceless Infographic created and researched by Boundless – an Open Textbook Future Predicted
Seeing it in the top 100 assumes they found very few choices exist . . .
[ https://www.visualnews.com/2016/06/14/100-best-infographics-education/ ]

Image Source: The Global Digital Citizen Foundation, ‘a non profit organization creating exceptional resources for educators’:: Home | Global Digital Citizen Foundation; Education Infographics: The Best 100 We’ve Seen; Here Are The 100 Best Education Infographics; Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Verbs [Infographic]; blooms-poster-copy.pdf

2016 12 04

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__By Maria Popova _

Hold Still: Sally Mann on the Treachery of Memory, the Dark Side of Photography, and the Elusive Locus of the Self

brainpickings.org

“Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time’s continuum.”

2016 12 11

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__This 44 page eBook is designed to be a comprehensive introduction to the capabilities of the adaptive learning technologies currently on the market, their benefits for both instructors and students, and how to approach choosing the best option for your needs.

Guide to Adaptive Learning, McGraw Hill Education: Unlocking-Potential-An Insiders Guide to Adpative Learning_McGraw-Hill-Education-FINAL.pdf; Free eBook: An Insider’s Guide to Adaptive Learning

2016 12 04

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__HackerYou, a Toronto-based provider of hands-on, project-based technology skills training announced that it has been approved by the Ministry of Advanced Education & Skills Development to operate as a registered Private Career College in the province of Ontario. This is a major development for coding bootcamps as well as Ontario’s Career College sector, as HackerYou’s bootcamp is now the first approved program of its kind in the province. _ http //https://lnkd.in/eQEpAnT

HackerYou Becomes First Registered Coding Bootcamp in Ontario: HackerYou Becomes First Registered Coding Bootcamp in Ontario – HackerYou; http://hackeryou.com/hackeryou-becomes-first-accredited-coding-bootcamp-ontario/; Heather Payne on Twitter: “Wow, I run a College. “HackerYou Becomes First Accredited Coding Bootcamp in Ontario” https://t.co/yBwOIqKvdC #hylevelsup https://t.co/rtdD02BEW9″; HackerYou (@hackeryou) | Twitter; HackerYou; Heather Payne | LinkedIn; Home – HackerYou; HackerYou Becomes First Registered Coding Bootcamp in Ontario

2016 12 04

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__The Design of Business | The Business of Design – Design Observer Interview S1E7: Cynthia Round + Susan Sellers _ https://lnkd.in/evMKi2x __ Marketing Article: How The Met united its brand identity and broadened its appeal by Peter Roper October 2016 _ https://lnkd.in/eVEsufa __ NYT Article: Becoming Modern: The Met’s Mission at the Breuer Building By DEBORAH SOLOMON 2015 _ https://lnkd.in/exZpRYs

Susan Sellers, Cynthia Round, The MET, S1E7 Design Observer: S1E7: Susan Sellers + Cynthia Round: Design Observer

2016 12 03

Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

hackeducation.com

This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech

Audrey Watters part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech: Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

http://2016trends.hackeducation.com/

2016 12 02

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Brandon Chu

Sr. Product Manager at Shopify

Some thoughts about where to focus first as a PM, especially when bandwidth is low.

Applying Leverage as a Product Manager – The Black Box of Product Management

medium.com

I get every new PM I manage to read (or re-read) High Output Management by Andy Grove within …

Applying Leverage as a Product Manager – The Black Box of Product Management – Medium

2016 12 02

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Senior Vice President Global Supply Chain Management at McGraw-Hill Education

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The Information Funnel Textbook Note-taking Method | HACK MY STUDY

__Consider handwritten v. typed notes may increase focus in processing the information which may enhance long-term memory :: Research _ https://sites.udel.edu/victorp/files/2010/11/Psychological-Science-2014-Mueller-0956797614524581-1u0h0yu.pdf _

2016 12 01

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__The Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce strongly recommends that the mandate, practices and resources of the Copyright Board of Canada be the subject of in-depth study during the forthcoming statutory review of the Copyright Act by a committee of the Senate or of the House of Commons or of both.

__”The Copyright Board of Canada plays a pivotal role in Canada’s cultural sector. Yet, from what the committee heard [via multiple Witnesses, including Access Copyright], the Board is dated, dysfunctional and in dire need of reform. Whether the reasons are statutory, structural or otherwise, the Board did not –or could not –provide the committee with solutions to the problems that were identified by witnesses. The concerns outlined in this report require further investigation and timely action. The next statutory review of the Copyright Act will take place in 2017″

Copyright Board of Canada – Senate Report: 2016-11-25BANCFINALVERSIONCopyright_e.pdf; Senate report on Copyright Board: A RATIONALE FOR URGENT REVIEW | Barry Sookman

2016 12 01

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Cracking the Code for the Future of Education

Thomas Frey on LinkedIn

This story started in 2012 when I was asked to speak at TEDx Reset in Istanbul on the future of education. Several times throughout my talk…

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2016 12 01

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__Google and AIGA are pleased to announce the first annual Design Census—an open and collaborative resource for understanding the complex economic, social, and cultural factors shaping the design practice today. It is free and open to everyone, and its goal is to empower the design community to take charge of its professional development and happiness. _ http://designcensus.org/#!/

2016 12 01

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Trisha Masterson

Senior Media Manager at Oxford University Press

10 famous designers’ portfolios and what you can learn from them

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Despite their fame, these designers all continue to maintain online portfolios, which offer so…

10 famous designers’ portfolios and what you can learn from them | Creative Bloq

2016 12 01

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__Digital Talent Road to 2020 and Beyond – Report from the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) contextualizes Canada’s digital landscape and labour market needs by 2020. Developed through extensive research, and consultations with industry, education and policy makers across Canada [-] Recommendations for nurturing a strong youth talent pipeline so that education programs better align with industry needs and improve student employment outcomes

ICTC – Digital Talent: Road to 2020 and Beyond: ICTC_DigitalTalent2020_ENGLISH_FINAL_March2016.pdf

2016 11 30

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__Focus On Creators [ https://lnkd.in/en_Bmtj ] is a coalition of Canadian musicians, authors, songwriters, poets, music producers, visual artists, and other members of the creative class, which was created to bring focus to the artists’ perspective in light of some major federal cultural policy activities.

Canadian musicians, writers ask federal government to fix creativity business

theglobeandmail.com

Letter to Minister of Canadian Heritage Mélanie Joly asks federal government to reme…

Canadian musicians, writers ask federal government to fix creativity business – The Globe and Mail: Canadian musicians, writers ask federal government to fix creativity business – The Globe and Mail

__Focus On Creators @FocusOnCreators _ https://twitter.com/FocusOnCreators

Focus On Creators: Focus On Creators; Sign the Letter | Focus On Creators; Statistics | Focus On Creators; Background | Focus On Creators; Our letter to Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly | Focus On Creators; Focus On Creators; Canadian musicians, writers ask federal government to fix creativity business – The Globe and Mail

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__”The Canadian Federation of Students has expressed concern about the possibility of rising tuition, yet Matthews told the Globe that if the CFS fully understood the financial aid redesign, it would be “cheering from the rooftops.”” __

Cost of Ontario’s new financial-aid system for postsecondary could rise: Minister

theglobeandmail.com

Details on changes to OSAP still not released as Deb Matthews outlines government…

Cost of Ontario’s new financial-aid system for postsecondary could rise: Minister – The Globe and Mail

2016 11 30

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__”The bench indicated its intent to hand down a ruling by year end on the intricate though contentious issue such as copyright jurisprudence and balancing it with right to access of knowledge. ” TAGS; Cambridge University Press, Delhi High Court, Oxford University Press, Pradeep Nandrajog and Yogesh Khanna, Rameshwari Photocopy Services, Taylor and Francis __

Rameshwari Photocopy Services case fast-tracked – Times of India

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

NEW DELHI: The famous dispute between international publishing giants…

D E L H I Delhi High Court, Rameshwari Photocopy Services, Oxford University Press: Sudhir Chandra,Pratibha Singh in appeal against DU photocopier judgment – Bar & Bench; photocopy case in delhi: Photocopy case fast-tracked – Times of India

2016 11 30

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__David Porter, CEO, eCampusOntario Slide Presentation at OpenCon2016TO – David summarizes his mission and Strategic Plans for eCampusOntario _ “Beyond Free” Harnessing the resonant value in open  and collaborative practices for public good

David Porter, Beyond Free – eCampusOntario Slide Presentation at OpenCon2016TO

Porter_Open_Con_2016_TO

Request for Proposal (RFP) Abstract: eCampusOntario – Strategic Plan Development

__eCampusOntario Open Content Initiative details Vision for Open Content in Ontario _ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/App_Content/Resource/docs/a49bd593-cadf-46b8-a593-898b84c25873/Open%20Content%20Initiatives%20-%202016%20eCampusOntario%20Call%20for%20Proposals%20(with%20Attestation%20Correction).pdf _

2016 11 28

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__Joanne McNeish, a professor who studies the resilience of incumbent technologies at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, discusses why readers prefer print books, the challenges ebooks will have to overcome to be more competitive, and why we shouldn’t expect physical books to ever be replaced entirely. Podcast: Why the Print Book Won’t Die: Part 1 _ https://lnkd.in/e53BJr2 _

__12:30 re: “information for long term retention. . . if you’re going to require testing for the purpose of academic achievement, definitely, the research is clearer and clearer to say that [information] should be on paper, learn from paper, physically write-out the information to get it into your long term memory. . . ” __ also see – Joanne McNeish Research Paper “The Surprising Foil to Online Education: Why Students Won’t Give Up Paper Textbooks” _ https://ryerson.academia.edu/JoanneMcNeish _

BookNet Canada

Why the print book won’t die. In our latest podcast episode we consider whether the print book as a technology is underrated.

Podcast: Why the print book won’t die, part one

booknetcanada.ca

Is the print book as a technology underrated? We discuss in this episode of BookNet Ca…

Why the Print Book Won’t Die: Part 1 by BookNet Canada

2016 11 28

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__Coursera is adopting a monthly subscription model to encourage binge-learning on its online platform at a time when its annual revenue is on track to double for the second time in two years. __ Coursera targets executive customers for new education platform, creating a competitor to the universities that have been providing it with downloadable lectures and teaching material.

Coursera – Netflix, Education start-up Coursera shifts to monthly subscriptions: Education start-up Coursera shifts to monthly subscriptions; Coursera targets executive customers for new education platform

2016 11 28

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__Josh McInerney, Manager of Design and Creative at Ryerson University, “began to think that maybe a new brand launch this big, affecting so many departments, faculty, students and staff needed another kind of communication channel beyond a website. So [he] came up with the idea of a Ryerson Brand Workshop – a traveling roadshow of sorts, minus the carnies [and] extended an open invitation to any faculty interested in learning about the new brand and identity.” read about how great that worked out. . .

If you brand it, they will come

rgd.ca

The graphic bible that gets meticulously put together after a new brand launch. All those detailed pages talking about the logo (how to use the logo, how …

Josh McInerney, Manager of Design and Creative at Ryerson University: If you brand it, they will come | RGD; Josh McInerney | LinkedIn

2016 11 28

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__This article underscores the dramatic changes we will see as many on-campus stores redefine themselves due to the shifting buying pattern towards online transactions for physical & digital educational resources _ Bowling Green State University’s student bookstore no longer carries physical books. The store has been renamed Falcon Outfitters and features a number of apparel and other banded items. _ http //https://lnkd.in/exyC_7s _ One can even ‘Buy This Image’ and have it framed . . . ? _

Books are history as campus bookstore goes online – The Blade: Books are history as campus bookstore goes online – The Blade

2016 11 25

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__Listing the nations with the most provisions, at the top of the scale is Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Singapore. Also see Ben Steward’s entire IPA WIPO Diary _ https://lnkd.in/eYqWa8x __ https://lnkd.in/epprhvH

WIPO Diary (SCCR 33) Day 3 – A world of exceptions and limitations

internationalpublishers.org

in total, the 189 countries have 1,553 separate provisions. This alone paints a pict…

IPA’s WIPO Diary by Ben Steward, International Publishers Association: International Publishers Association – Ben Steward – IPA Blogs; WIPO Diary (SCCR 33) Day 5 – Moving on – International Publishers Association – IPA Blogs; WIPO Diary (SCCR 33) Day 4 – A way with words – International Publishers Association – IPA Blogs; WIPO Diary (SCCR 33) Day 2 – The greater good – International Publishers Association – IPA Blogs; WIPO Diary (SCCR 33) Day 1 – Treaties, Transitions and Trumpism – International Publishers Association – IPA Blogs; WIPO Diary (SCCR 33) Day 3 – A world of exceptions and limitations – International Publishers Association – IPA Blogs

__WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) is currently discussing member nations’ Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Educational Activities – see pages 214 – 232 of Daniel Seng’s Study for details of Canadian limitations and exceptions _ http //https://lnkd.in/eA3JDXN

__Also see WIPO Diary Day 3 by Ben Steward, International Publishers Association _ http://www.internationalpublishers.org/news/blog/entry/wipo-diary-sccr-33-day-3-a-world-of-exceptions-and-limitations _ And his entire IPA WIPO Diary _ http://www.internationalpublishers.org/news/blog/blogger/listings/bensteward _

2016 11 25

__Are Robots the Future of Education? Yes, but I’m not talking about full blown robo-tutors here, but rather robotic exoskeletons that learning experts can pilot and control. Picture Ripley’s power loader in the movie Aliens as opposed to the T-800 robots from The Terminator film franchise.” Read about how tech can enable and extend human capabilities. by Kenneth Chapman of D2L _

Are Robots the Future of Education? | D2L: Are Robots the Future of Education? | D2L

2016 11 24

Visual Communications Marketing Copyright Open Education Design Thinking

Don Gorges Archive of LinkedIn Posts and Links November 6 to November 22

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Recently in our Hoboken, NJ office, we asked Pearson employees a few questions about why they work here. Here’s what they had to say.

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A Glossary of Engraving Terms

By: Nancy Sharon Collins | November 13, 2016

Due to its insanely minute ability to render detail, engraving remains the most amazing print reproduction process in the world. Albeit stationery-centric, I wrote a book about it, The Complete Engraver. For a wider audience, I excerpted and edited the glossary of terms and definitions of this erstwhile and under-appreciated process.

FIGURE 2 – Close-up: D.J. Pound engraving of Prince Albert illustrating how the detail is rendered, one dot and dash at a time—in engraved prints. The original of this print was engraved by hand. Courtesy of the author.

__Several Minneapolis Institute of Art videos help describe Printmaking Processes: Intaglio: _ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNKn4PORGBI __ Printmaking Processes: Lithography _ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHw5_1Hopsc __ Printmaking Processes: Relief _ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0skLwaFpn0 __ Printmaking Processes: Screenprinting _ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wogKeYH2wEE _

The Printed Image in the West: Engraving

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/engr/hd_engr.htm

2016 11 22

Analytics Literacy is a Major Limiter of Ed Tech Growth

mfeldstein.com

Right now, the educational technology market is blithely barreling down the road of developing sexy, sophisticated algorithms. Setting aside the very serious and poorly attended question of student data privacy, there is an implicit assumption that if the algorithms become sophisticated enough, then the market will follow. But “sophisticated” also means “complex.” If we, as a culture, lack the basic literacy to have clear intuitions about what “a 70% chance” means, then how likely is it that we won’t have shocks that cause us to distrust our learning analytics because we didn’t understand their assumptions and limitations? These products face very serious (and completely justifiable) market risk as long as practitioners don’t understand them.

We need to transform our teaching culture into one of learning science and data science literacy. We need our educators to understand how algorithmic storytelling works and develop intuitions about data interpretation. There are two sides to this coin. On the one hand, this means developing new skills and embracing the sciences of teaching and learning. On the other hand, it means not fetishizing the instruments to the point where we no longer think to touch the patient’s back. Data should extend our senses, not be a substitute for them. Likewise, analytics should augment rather than replace our native sense-making capabilities.

2016 11 20

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__The Global Information Technology Report 2016 – Innovating in the Digital Economy, highlights striking innovation patterns in the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) data that can help point the way for policy and investment priorities. _ http://reports.weforum.org/global-information-technology-report-2016/

2016 11 20

Follett Acquires Valore Inc.

follett.com

Nov 17, 2016 – Follett Corporation, a global leader in education and entertainment content distribution, today announced it has acquired Valore Inc. and the ValoreBooks marketplace solution for students and bookstores to buy, sell and rent college textbooks online. Combining the convenience of the ValoreBooks marketplace with the scope and capabilities of Follett will provide campus stores and students greater access to more affordable course material options. Terms of the transaction were not released.

2016 11 17

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Stereotyping, Behavior, and Belonging in the Open Education Community

opencontent.org

Stephen Downes points to some older but interesting posts by Lisa Petrides and Bill Fitzgerald about the role of commercial actors in the open space. It’s a topic that I’ve been thinking about recently, particularly with yesterday’s revelation that Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation. For someone who was online during the 90s, this is completely unimaginable. I had to read the full announcement to convince myself it was true. What the heck is going on?

To end where I began, let us pause to consider the open education analog of Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation. Can you imagine a future in which Pearson, McGraw Hill, or Cengage announce that they had openly licensed part of their catalog, publishing it online for the world to freely use, download, edit, and share? (Before you laugh at the impossibility of this, let me remind you that Microsoft just joined the Linux Foundation.) How would the community respond? How would you respond? I would welcome them with open arms, and hope you would as well. Just as open source software has benefited immensely from respected and valued contributions from IBM, RedHat, Google, and other companies, open education would benefit significantly from greater contributions from companies. Specifically, students would benefit significantly from these contributions. We, the open education community, just need to restrain ourselves from running organizations out of town on a rail simply because they’re for-profits.

I hope that in the near future we can collectively reach a place where we judge organizations by their behavior and not their articles of incorporation. We should be welcoming, cheering for, and supporting companies that behave in ways that are consistent with our values. I’ll reserve dreams of a distant future where we achieve No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor for the mid-2020s.

__David Wiley’s sermon-approach to promoting the norms and values of Lumen Learning OER services is an authentic ‘one and only’ marketing strategy _”David: I’m a Mormon, so that’s what you get when I’m at the front of the room. My approach to life is very much I roll out of bed every day and whatever it feels like God wants me to do that day is what I’m going to do. [-] Whatever feels to me like is the thing that will be most useful to Him is what I’m going to do.” When David says “Textbooks are immorally expensive” I know where he’s coming from, and don’t discriminate against his field of endeavor. But this judgemental rhetoric within the OER community is disappointing when you expect Academics and educators to be thoughtful, analytical, and beyond intellectually lazy habits like stereotyping.

2016 11 17

Survey of Teachers & Principals Explores Barriers to Equity in Education and the Resources Needed to Support Students

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The views and experiences of more than 4,700 public school Pre-K–12 teachers and principals representing all 50 states and the District of Columbia were revealed today by Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL) in a new report, the Teacher & Principal School Report: Equity in Education. Findings show the overwhelming majority of educators (97%) agree that “equity in education for all children should be a national priority.” However, they report that barriers to equity are pervasive across school poverty levels and a lack of resources to support students exists both in- and out-of-school. The report provides new data on teachers’ and principals’ views regarding the barriers to equity, educators’ funding priorities and personal spending for students and classrooms, the role of families and communities, and professional development needs.

To download the full report, visit www.scholastic.com/teacherprincipalreport.

2016 11 16

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Our 2016 Advocacy Week Recommendations

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Post-secondary education continues to be the great equalizer in Canada, providing knowledge, training and economic opportunity to all types of people across all fields of interest. Knowing this, government must continue to build on its commitments for equitable growth by making post-secondary education accessible, affordable, innovative, and high quality. Doing so will open doors for all Canadians to achieve their personal and professional goals and contribute to society in a meaningful way.

While there is no single mechanism for securing long-term economic growth within a country, ensuring Canada has a highly trained and educated population is a strong step in the right direction. In addition, an educated population is also proven to promote higher levels of engagement among citizens, resulting in greater social benefits for communities throughout the country.

The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) is calling on the federal government to lead Canada by investing in an inclusive and innovative economy.

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__CASA recommends the following federal government investments: _$27 million per year to establish a six-month, interest-free grace period for CSLP loans; _$50.1 million per year into the CSGP and allow master’s and doctoral students to access the program; _establish a funding mechanism to support the up-front costs of accessing a mental health disability assessment through the Canada Student Loans Program at a cost of $9 million per year;

__$106 million per year over the next three years to fully fund the Post-Secondary Student Support Program and address the program’s backlog; _create a “Reconciliation through Post-Secondary Education” Program to support reconciliation programming at institutions throughout the country at a cost of $26 million; _expand experiential learning opportunities by investing an additional $73 million over 4 years into the Post-Secondary Industry Partnership and Co-operative Placement Initiative; _adopt the model used in Quebec to create a Canada Training Incentive; _support complete research costs, at a cost of $286.5 million per year;

__and invest $7 million per year as a pilot project for supporting OERs, as they increase access to learning for all of society and are capable of reaching non-traditional student groups. The details of the proposed OER Pilot Program investment are not found in the CASA briefing document _ http://media.wix.com/ugd/ca1567_78b2bae6fa7b438faf335f38ee9cc364.pdf

2016 11 13

Advice to academics for creating and selling online courses (essay) | Inside Higher Ed

How to Create and Sell Courses Online

Kirsten Drickey provides some concrete advice for leveraging your teaching experience and subject matter expertise by teaching online courses beyond the academy.

2016 11 15

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Instructional Design 101 Part 1: What is Instructional Design?

The field of instructional design has gotten a lot of attention lately, especially in the world of higher education. But even some experienced instructional designers have a hard time explaining exactly what they do. The Instructional Design 101 series will explore the basics of what instructional design is and how it can help colleges and universities better serve their students.

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Instructional Design 101 Part 2: Why Does Your Institution Need Instructional Design? – The Cengage Learning Blog

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The field of instructional design has gotten a lot of attention lately, especially in the world of higher education. But even some experienced instructional designers have a hard time explaining exactly what it is they do. The first post of the Instructional Design 101 series gave a broad overview of what instructional design is. This post will explain exactly why it’s so valuable.

2016 11 12

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Josh Mullineaux

Chief Product Officer at panOpen

Open Educational Resources- The Technology

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Recording of the OER Technology colloquium with NobleStream’s Howard Weiner featuring Chief Product Officer of panOpen, Josh Mullineaux, who is taking us for a deep dive of the panOpen platform.

2016 11 12

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Cable Green

Director of Open Education at Creative Commons

Open Educational Resources (OER) – The Commonwealth Education Hub

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Policy Brief on Open Educational Resources (OER)

Executive summary: Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are freely available and can be legally used and modified by anyone. Properly leveraged, OER can help everyone in the world access free, high quality, learning materials. OER can help governments meet the aims set out in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially with regard to SDG4: ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education, and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. This policy brief describes open educational resources, open licenses, open education licensing policies, and actions governments may take to support open education in their countries.

This policy brief has been written by Creative Commons with input from the Commonwealth of Learning and the Commonwealth Secretariat. It is posted here for comment and input prior to being finalised in December 2016. Comment may be sent by email to: eduhub@commonwealth.int . Kindly comment by 3 December 2016 either via the email address or the comment box at the bottom of this page.

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__Policy Brief on Open Educational Resources is aimed at Education policy makers and planners in government and institutions – the recommendation is broken down into 10 points, #1. Foster awareness and promote the use of OER – to #10. Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public funds. There currently is a low level of awareness and experience using OER, it is incumbent on policy makers to gain an expertise in both the pros and the cons to be able to consider an Open education licensing policy that publicly funded education resources (i.e. paid for by taxpayers’ money) should be openly licensed by default.

2016 11 11

Naza Djafarova

Director, Digital Educational Strategies, The Chang, Ryerson University

We [ChangSchool] are creating games in 3 months. Check our simulation game:

Therapeutic Communication and Mental Health Assessment Demo

__Very impressive simulation game example, Naza. _ Readers, to get the most from this short demo, be prepared to pause and read the text frames like slides. Really interesting.

Making Video Games for Higher Ed Requires Major Investment. Is It Worth It? (EdSurge News)

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A majority of young adults already play video games, so using them in courses seems like a natural fit. But building World of Warcraft or a similar blockbuster game requires massive production teams and millions of dollars. For higher education, with smaller potential audiences and student outcomes at stake, companies are debating whether return on investment is there for game-based learning experiences.

2016 11 11

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__”In 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada amended the country’s copyright law, expanding its “fair-dealing” provision for the purposes of education, parody, and satire. As a result of the way many educational institutions have defined the new fair dealing rules, schools are paying less money to copyright holders. Roanie Levy, Access Copyright’s executive director, says the organization’s 2017 payout will be 80 per cent less than it distributed in 2013 ” __

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Access Copyright is warning creators and publishers to brace for a significant decrease in their royalty payments next year.

The non-profit organization, which collects revenues on behalf of Canadian copyright holders, estimates the amount it pays to creators to drop to $5 million in 2017, from $11 million this year – a 55 per cent decrease that is being directly attributed to a reduction in revenue from the educational sector.

Roanie Levy, Access Copyright’s executive director, expects educational publishers and content creators, such as authors, across the board will be affected most by the reduction. “When you consider the scope and size of these industries, and these businesses, and the income of creators, you quickly see how damaging this kind of decline is,” she says. “It’s a death by a thousand cuts.” Although Levy refers to the current situation as an “impasse,” she says Access Copyright is working with the educational sector to better understand its needs, and is testing out a transactional model that could potentially replace the traditional blanket licence: “What is absolutely critical for us is that we develop something that meets the needs of the educational institutions.”

2016 11 10

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Students appreciate flexibility of distance learning

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Colleges and universities are moving more and more into online and blended hybrid deliveries for postsecondary programs, in addition to what they have traditionally offered in continuing education online. Allison Pillwein, a 23-year-old Niagara College student, is a fan of online learning. Currently in her first year of a social service worker program, Ms. Pillwein likes that many of her lecture courses are online hybrids – meaning that part of the delivery is online and part is face-to-face in class – such as the abnormal psychology course she elected to take this fall.

“Hybrid learning gives us the advantage of having technology available to learn in the way that we’ve grown used to,” says Ms. Pillwein, who is also a Brock University graduate. “In the abnormal psychology course, the online component is mainly tests and quizzes that you can do in your own time. I’ve found that suits my learning style more, as opposed to doing a test in class where you’d have to memorize a lot of terms and concepts.”

Ms. Pillwein also likes that the professor uploads all of her PowerPoint presentations for students to access and review. She feels that helps get the material embedded in her brain more than writing things down word for word during the lecture.

“Being online allows you a lot of flexibility in how you choose to learn,” Ms. Pillwein says. “You can tweak how you study and how you learn the material rather than being forced to do it only one way in the classroom session.”

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Patrick Lyons, director of teaching and learning services at Carleton University in Ottawa, visualizes online learning taking many different forms, presenting all kinds of opportunities that could not be delivered any other way. Carleton has a long history offering distance learning, first broadcasting courses on a local cable TV channel in 1978 and then offering the world’s first video podcast of a university credit course in 2006. Currently, as many as one-third of all Carleton students register and complete an online course in a given year.

“If you think broadly and creatively, you can have wonderfully rich online activities,” says Mr. Lyons. “The tools are astounding right now. We’ve had instructors facilitate a completely online language course in a 3-D environment where they were meeting in a virtual space as avatars. We’ve had courses featuring engaging short lectures from amazing people who might otherwise be difficult to bring into a classroom, such as a supreme court justice, an RCMP officer and a practising physician.”

Mr. Lyons says he has watched some instructors at Carleton hold more engaging seminars online with richer communications than he has seen in face-to-face seminars. One example he gives is a graduate course with a small class of about 30 students who meet online at the same time.

“In some ways it mirrors a face-to-face seminar graduate course where you’d have a live discussion going back and forth, but you’re doing this online with 30 people spread out around the world,” says Mr. Lyons. “And because of the technology, they’re able to break out into groups and have these small private discussions between three and four people and then bring that back to class. The wealth of ideas and the rich diversity that they’re bringing are so different compared with a face-to-face classroom environment. Online learning can absolutely bring us new opportunities to connect people who may not be easily connected, and in areas where face-to-face teaching may not be the best choice.”

2016 11 11

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Leonard Cohen and the Strawberry.

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Leonard Cohen passed away last night.

No other could climb so high up the ladder, bring down such

profound ideas and then crystallize them into popular music.

The amount of translation that involves can be only be done by the most evolved of souls.

I once asked my copy class at OCADU to revisit a common fruit or vegetable and to examine their selection to find a fresh insight.

A young lady working with a strawberry, brilliantly observed: ‘A strawberry is the only fruit that has the courage to wear its seeds on the outside’.

I think of the strawberry today.

Such was the transparent honesty of Leonard Cohen as a poet, a novelist, a songwriter

and as a human being.

2016 11 11

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Andrew Shortt

A creative director. An innovator. An enemy of the status quo.

If you want to be a great copywriter, or if you want the copywriters in your agency to be great writers, have them go to Neil French’s website and rewrite every ad, by hand.

the NEIL FRENCH site

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2016 11 11

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__”We like the things that we like as human beings, we like feelings, we like experiences . . . and whatever products gets us close to that, that’s the product we go with . . . products that have the user experience at their very core . . . if anyone has a Design Thinking approach or mindset, you look at the world and go, why does it work like this when we could redesign this and make it so much better . . . “

Design Is Future Film

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This film is the result of the last edition of ‘Design is Future congresstival’ held at Disseny Hub Barcelona from 6 to 8 June during the Barcelona Design Week. It showcases the main highlights and strong ideas from the 15 speakers that took part in the Design is Future 2016, as well as from the presenter and curators of the event.

They all share with the audience their main insights about the key role of design while explaining how it helps professionals, businesses and society to be more innovative and sustainable.

This film is an idea by Toormix and BCD Barcelona Centre de Disseny for the Barcelona Design Week 2016. Directed by Laura Sans with the support of Fabrica.

2016 11 11

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__Dr. Terry Anderson’s three-part series, Three Pillars of Educational Technology, covers Learning Management Systems, Social Media, and Personal Learning Environments, and how they might best be used for enhanced teaching and learning. _ 3 parts via Contact North _ http://teachonline.ca/sites/default/files/tools-trends/downloads/cn-three_pillars_part_1.pdf _ http://teachonline.ca/sites/default/files/tools-trends/downloads/cn-three_pillars_part_2.pdf _ http://teachonline.ca/sites/default/files/tools-trends/downloads/cn-three_pillars_part_3.pdf

2016 11 09

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__Third-party published content is regularly shared by 38% of business professionals without consideration of copyright, despite the acknowledgement of serious risks and implications of copyright infringement by 74% of those business professionals. _ http://storage.pardot.com/37852/179398/2016_Information_Seeking__Consumption_and_Use_Report_NA_EU.pdf _ Information Seeking Consumption and Use Report – Copyright Clearance Center

Content Sharing and Consumption on the Rise, Copyright Awareness at a Low

Content sharing is essential in business today, the study shows, as it fosters collaboration and speeds up innovation.

97% of respondents share content with their team monthly, and 38% say that they forward information without thinking about copyright issues.
- 26% of executives share content without thinking about copyright.
More than one-third (36%) of all shared information is externally published, down from 41% in 2013.
- 69% share information with clients, 68% share with business partners, and 65% share content with colleagues in international locations.
Since 2013, the number of instances of content sharing (forwarding work-related information such as articles, pictures, and video clips) has dropped from seven times a week to five, while the number of people the content is shared with has declined from eleven to an average of nine people a week.

Shifts in Sharing Methods

Although email is still the most frequent means of sharing information, users are increasingly choosing to make information available to colleagues through shared network drives and intranet postings as well as collaboration tools such as Microsoft SharePoint, Dropbox and CRM systems.

Email remains the most widely used tool for information sharing; 66% of respondents send email attachments, 51% share links and 39% paste text into an email.
- Sharing content in email attachments has dropped since 2013, from 87% of respondents to 66%.
Collaboration tools made significant gains in popularity, with 24% of respondents reporting use versus only 11% in 2011.

Executives Share a High Volume of Content, Much of it from Third Party Sources

Executives have a greater appetite for sharing content than middle management and individual contributors, per the survey. Executives share more regularly (nearly seven times per week), share with more people each time (12), and are more likely to share information published by third parties (41%) than internal information or material produced by colleagues within the company.

In competitive, mission-critical or time-critical situations, nearly a third of executives (73%) said they will forward relevant information that will give their organization the competitive edge.

“Protecting intellectual property rights is everyone’s responsibility – knowledge workers, information managers and executives. A solid understanding of what copyright infringement constitutes is critical,” said Jo McShea, VP & Lead Analyst, Outsell. “The potential for exposure to copyright abuse is proliferating. Data from our study indicates more than a third of shared content is from external sources, coupled with a broader base of people with whom information is shared and growing usage of new methods of sharing information such as collaboration networks.”

“It’s vital for organizations to adjust for trends in workflow patterns and to ensure that their copyright policies and educational measures are up to standards to mitigate risk,” said Gretchen Gasser-Ellis, Senior Vice President, Product and Operations, CCC. “Those parties responsible for copyright adherence have their hands full to make sure their organizations’ copyright policies and employee training curriculum consider workflow trends, sharing methods and behavioral nuances related to the user’s role, industry, or geography.”

2016 11 09

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Corporate Communications Marketing Specialist at Pearson

Some of our best and brightest are on the Neo team here at Pearson!

Employee Engagement Soars In Pearson’s Interactive Intranet

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For Pearson’s 40,000-strong workforce, a Jive-powered interactive intranet has become the hub and the heart of company culture.

Engaging a global workforce isn’t easy when all you have is traditional one-way tools like static intranets and email. That’s why Pearson turned to Jive, creating a fully interactive intranet and collaborative hub the company calls “Neo.” It’s become the center of company culture, a place for learning, news and open, two-way dialogue between executives and employees. “It’s really transformed how people feel about working at Pearson,” says Global Community Manager Kim England. And she says things got even better when Pearson moved from a hosted deployment to Jive in the cloud, delivering all the latest and greatest Jive enhancements in regular automatic upgrades.

2016 11 08

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__Excellent research / reporting by Heather McCabe and Emi Sasagawa of UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology _

Open textbooks save UBC Math students up to $1,000,000 this year

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In an effort to customize materials for their courses and save students money on rising textbook fees, instructors in the Math department at UBC have adopted open or freely accessible textbooks in all first-year courses and most second-year courses.

In addition to the open or freely available textbooks, faculty members use a number of other freely accessible or open resources, such as WeBWorK, a randomized online homework software that automatically grades student work; the Math Exam/Education Resources wiki with past exams and worked out solutions and videos; and course wiki pages which host additional resources. In some cases, students have helped with the production of the online textbooks written by faculty, and contributed to WeBWorK problems and the course wiki pages.

Faculty members in Math who have written their own online textbooks say that they plan to continue to refine them or add features to them to make them more interactive and appealing for students to use.

2016 11 08

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__Z-Degree curious? Tidewater Community College / Lumen Learning “Z-Degree” not found in search _ Search Word and Design Marks on US Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) _ i.e. see _ NANODEGREE _

Why Udacity and EdX Want to Trademark the Degrees of the Future—and What’s at Stake for Students (EdSurge News)

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No one owns the term “master’s degree.” But upstart education providers dream of getting a lock on the words for the next generation of online graduate certifications. Their strategy says a lot about how today’s online programs differ from those in the past (Hint: duration and price are just one part of that).

Udacity won a trademark for Nanodegree last year. And in April, the nonprofit edX, founded by MIT and Harvard University to deliver online courses by a consortium of colleges, applied for a trademark on the word MicroMasters. And MicroDegree? Yep, that’s trademarked too, by yet another company.

Sean Gallagher, chief strategy officer at Northeastern University’s Global Network, picked up on this trend recently and wondered what’s going on. He knows the space well, since he literally wrote the book on “ The Future of University Credentials.” And he noticed that at least one key player can’t seem to decide whether it wants its new degrees to be universal or proprietary.

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2016 11 06

Don Gorges Archive of LinkedIn Posts and Links October 29 to November 6

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Topics – Perspectives – Sectors : Open Design Visual Communications Creative Marketing Education

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__Issues in Postsecondary Education in Canada _ Funding Cuts: Postsecondary education and tuition fees are publicly regulated, our colleges and universities are public institutions; however, public funding currently accounts for less than 49 percent of university and college operating funds, down from 77 percent just 20 years ago. In recent decades, various governments have made the political choice to claw back public funding for post-secondary education and download these costs onto students and their families through tuition fees. The Education Sector human resources cost increases = Tuition and Fees increases. The Creative Sector human resources cost increases = Textbook price increases. The Open Educational Resources OER Movement wages war against the Creative Sector’s Textbooks & Educational Resources pricing.

__Design Is Future Film showcases the main highlights and strong ideas from the 15 speakers that took part in the Design is Future 2016. . . “We like the things that we like. . . and, as human beings, we like feelings, we like experiences . . . and whatever products gets us close to that, that’s the product we go with . . . products that have the user experience at their very core . . . if anyone has a Design Thinking approach or mindset, you look at the world and go, why does it work like this when we could redesign this and make it so much better . . . ” _ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zodT9bCdIiI&feature=youtu.be _

Don Gorges Archive of LinkedIn Posts and Links October 29 to November 6

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Don Gorges

Topics – Perspectives – Sectors :

Open Design Visual Communications Creative Marketing Education

Education Costs: Tuition & Fees and Educational Resources i.e. Books-Supplies, Technology Devices, Software/Platforms and Connectivity.

The focus of attention is on costs of Tuition and Textbooks.

The Education Sector human resources cost increases = Tuition and Fees increases

The Creative Sector human resources cost increases = Textbook price increases

The Open Educational Resources Movement wages war against the Creative Sector’s Textbooks & Educational Resources pricing.

People in the Open Educational Resources Movement earn their living from within the Education Sector [the human resources cost driving Tuition and Fees increases].

To set priorities and focus on a range of solutions, seek a clear understanding of the Costs, Financial Aid Grants/Loans, financial literacy, decision processes and purchasing behaviours that have an impact students’ success.

The relative impact of Tuition and Textbook costs via found Graphics

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The Issues stated by Canadian Federation of Students, National Day of Action on November 2

Postsecondary Education in Canada

Funding Cuts

Postsecondary education and tuition fees are publicly regulated, our colleges and universities are public institutions; however, public funding currently accounts for less than 49 percent of university and college operating funds, down from 77 percent just 20 years ago. In recent decades, various governments have made the political choice to claw back public funding for post-secondary education and download these costs onto students and their families through tuition fees.

Tuition Fees

Dramatic tuition fee increases are the direct result of cuts to public funding for postsecondary education by the federal and provincial governments. In the past 25 years, average tuition fees in Canada have increased by more than 137 percent.To justify these increases, in recent years, governments and post-secondary institutions across the country have colluded to create a narrative that post-secondary education is a privilege and a personal benefit that students and their families should have to pay for. We know that this “user-fee” model of post-secondary education benefits the wealthy, with 60 percent of post-secondary students today coming from the two highest income quintiles. The upfront cost of college and university education is blocking students from low and middle-income families from accessing higher education and skills training.

Student Debt

Rising tuition fees and the reliance on loan-based financial assistance have pushed student debt to historic levels. Today, students on average graduate with over $28,000 of education-related debt after an undergraduate degree and the amount owed to the Canada Student Loan Program is over $19 billion and is increasing by nearly $1 million per day.

Low and middle-income students who are forced to take out student loans end up paying more for their education as they must repay both tuition fees and the accumulated interest on their public and private student loans. These large levels of debt impact the life decisions students make for years to come.

Students are mobilizing to fight back and advocate for our vision of post-secondary education in Canada. We know that public education is a public good that society benefits from as a whole and it must be funded as such. Education is a right of us all not a privilege of a few.

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Canadian university report

Paying for it

The key is to find ways to finance your education and graduate with the smallest amount of debt.

Here are the costs you can expect across Canada.

Paul Attfield, CAITLIN HAVLAK The Globe and Mail : Thursday, Nov. 03, 2016

Tuition is just the start. Add in the price of student housing, which varies depending on the university, books and school supplies, food and recreation, a phone plan and return trips home, and the cost of university soon adds up exponentially.

And graduating Canadian students carry an average debt burden of about $27,000, according to the 2015 graduating student survey by the Canadian University Survey Consortium, which takes on average 10 years to pay back, according to the Canada Student Loan program.

But there are a few options to help students try to minimize the amount of debt they carry with them after graduating. . . .

2016 11 06

Baird Whelan

Sr. Learning Experience Designer

3 Ways to Prove the ROI in Open Educational Resources EdTech Magazine: Focus on Higher Education – 20h ago

3 Ways to Prove the ROI in Open Educational Resources

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There are many sources pointing to the savings OER provides students, but how do these savings impact the university’s bottom line? With limited resources, there are many valuable initiatives every year that just don’t make the cut. But OER adoption is a worthy initiative for allocation of university resources, and here’s why:

more > . . .

Thanks Baird. Tara Lifland makes good points about potential returns but could expand on Investment issues. A couple of ROI related articles: INTRO INcreased Tuition Revenue through OER model _http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/1828/1763_ AND _ Defining Digital Courseware’s ROI in Terms of Student Success _https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-07-07-defining-digital-courseware-s-roi-in-terms-of-student-success_

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Why Udacity and EdX Want to Trademark the Degrees of the Future—and What’s at Stake for Students (EdSurge News)

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__#opened16? yeah, I read every tweet

__starring Robin DeRosa David Wiley Alan Levine

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@actualham #OpenEd16 Collectively, Student Surveys offer valuable insights which can drive improvements in Faculty Syllabus design

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@actualham Link to survey _ https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/38662/PollitzStudentTextbooks2009.pdf … _ Student Strategies for Coping with Textbook Costs Oregon State University John Pollitz

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@professorsv @holden #OpenEd16 Perhaps relevant _article about promise of Open Syllabus Explorer, Open Syllabus Project OSP, _ https://thecite.blogspot.ca/2016/11/syllabus-databases-assist-course.html …

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@actualham #OpenEd16 Consider impact of improvements in Faculty Syllabus

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@PhilOnEdTech #OpenEd16

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@mollyali @greeneterry @cgreen @pgstacey – that’s great news Paul, when will the book be out? am looking forward to reading it

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#opened16 Consider where Faculty focus would have a significant impact on rising costs of Tuition, Books and living expenses

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@mctoonish #OpenEd16 _ http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/statscan-tuition-1.3751036 … _ Average undergrad tuition rises to $6,373 this year, StatsCan

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@actualham Hi Robin, the 66.6% stat may point to a need for follow up questions, as were asked in the PollitzStudentTextbooks2009.pdf survey

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@jesshmitchell @DrBSI @TorontoStar James Stewart’s Integral House, A space for music designed by a mathematician . . . Amazing

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#alloutnov2 #opened16 Reflecting on today’s concurrent events puts the impact of rising Tuition Costs into perspective against other costs

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#OpenEd16 #alloutnov2 Canadian Federation of Students – National Day of Action on November 2 _ Live Now via Twitter https://twitter.com/hashtag/alloutnov2 …

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Don Gorges ‏@DonGorges Nov 1

@actualham In your academic career, has the cost of required textbooks caused you to: Not purchase the required textbook? -then ask follow up questions

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2016 11 06

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__These 4 organizations have jointly pledged to only use the CC BY license [and not SA ND and NC licenses] when producing their open textbooks and other OER _ BCcampus | Open Textbook Network | The Rebus Community for Open Textbook Creation | Lumen Learning __

Open Textbook Community Advocates CC BY License for Open Textbooks

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We, the undersigned, are active in the creation, dissemination, and adoption of Open Textbooks and Open Educational Resources (OER) throughout the world. Our projects, collectively, have involved hundreds of textbooks, thousands of OER, and millions of students. We believe the most appropriate license for open textbooks is the Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY) license*.

Our organizations share a mission to foster a vibrant OER ecosystem in which anyone can exercise the “5Rs” legal rights to retain, reuse, revise, remix and redistribute open textbooks and other OER. The CC BY license makes it easier for all of us to achieve our objective: a world where open textbooks and OER can be easily remixed to meet local education needs.

This is why we believe that the CC-BY license is the ideal Creative Commons license for open textbooks:

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__BCcampus library of open textbooks are licensed CC BY and CC BY SA [perhaps others too] so this is a forward looking pledge. Wonder if OpenStax has commented on their intentions

2016 11 05

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__FutuOER A collection of authors publications’ re: The Future of Open Educational Resources _ http //www.futuoer.org/

__Found several of these interesting, marked them with _*_ but start with Downes __ A Letter from 2036 – David Kernohan, Building the Open Future of Education – Mary Lou Forward, Open Education Consortium, The OER Research Themes of the Future – Martin Weller & Patrick McAndrew, _*_From Open Education to Open Science – Willem van Valkenburg [US / Europe Strategies], The Future of OER – TJ Bliss, A University of Open – Paul Stacey, Wither Open Educational Resources in 2036? – Marshall (Mike) Smith, _*_Mapping Unbundled Open Education Resources: Pathways Through the Chaos – Karen E. Willcox and Luwen Huang, Future of Open Education at Community Colleges – Una Daly, Dream A Little – Lorna M. Campbell, _*_2036: The Evolutionary Revolution of Open Education Realized – Catherine Casserly, Universal Education Realized – Cable Green, _*_Open Learning in the Future – Stephen Downes, The Price of Freedom: Open Education and the Tragedy of the Commons – Andy Lane,

2016 11 05

__Michael Feldstein 6 Short Videos – McGraw-Hill Education, Adaptive Learning, e-Literate TV _ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6aYR0uCe9o&index=1&list=PLb2UcU-aVjN2aPSmGKILK2GHh6MgGswM9

McGraw-Hill Education on Adaptive Learning

2016 11 05

__”Innovation is clearly on the federal government’s agenda and of big interest to universities as they try to keep pace with rapid changes in society and the economy, while staying responsive to government funding priorities and continuing to meet the needs of their students, faculty and the wider community.” __

Six strategies for Canadian universities to foster innovation | University Affairs

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Experts from within and outside of academia expound on what role universities can play to further the innovation agenda.

By MOIRA MACDONALD | November 2, 2016

The buzzword “innovation” might perk you up – or make your eyes roll. Regardless of how the term sits with you, innovation is clearly on the federal government’s agenda and of big interest to universities as they try to keep pace with rapid changes in society and the economy, while staying responsive to government funding priorities and continuing to meet the needs of their students, faculty and the wider community.

With the federal government grappling with weak economic growth and working on crafting a new “innovation agenda,” (PDF) we asked six experts inside and outside the academy what role they think universities should play in fostering greater innovation in Canada. Their innovation definitions differ in their wording, but are variations on the theme that innovation is not about inventions, per se, but about the novel use of inventions and technologies that lead to transformative new or improved services, products and processes. Universities already make substantial contributions through their teaching, learning and research functions, and have at least some role to play in the innovation ecosystem, they agree, but how far that should go and in which ways yielded intriguing ideas from each of them.

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2016 11 02

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Heather Strelecki

Archives Director at AIGA, the professional association for design

Design Census 2016

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Google and AIGA are pleased to announce the first annual Design Census—an open and collaborative resource for understanding the complex economic, social, and cultural factors shaping the design practice today. It is free and open to everyone, and its goal is to empower the design community to take charge of its professional development and happiness.

2016 11 03

__See the entries for National Geographic’s Nature Photographer of the Year contest – The Washington Post _ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/see-the-entries-for-national-geographics-nature-photographer-of-the-year-contest/2016/10/07/87a13fe6-8020-11e6-8327-f141a7beb626_gallery.html

2016 11 02

__The PG-13 Reporters Covering an R-Rated Election_ Article via NYT _ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/us/politics/scholastic-reporting-campaign.html?_r=0 ___ Scholastic has been providing child-friendly election coverage to teachers and classrooms for nearly a century, starting with the 1924 race between Calvin Coolidge and John W. Davis. It introduced its children’s press corps program in 2000, and for the last five presidential elections, Scholastic has sent precocious young political reporters to cover rallies, debates and stump speeches around the country.

2016 11 01

__2 recently established Syllabus Databases; Open Syllabus Explorer, Open Syllabus Project OSP, For now, there are limitations to these databases. They hold just a fraction of the estimated 80 million to 120 million syllabuses in the U.S. because at present they can only access syllabuses posted on public websites. Those stored in a school’s learning management system, for instance, aren’t accessible. Although a search can show which textbooks are most widely used in a particular field, the results can’t be filtered by subfields. _

Syllabus Databases Assist Course Creators

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When faculty start developing new courses, they often want to know how other professors have structured similar courses and what textbooks they’re using. Likewise, textbook authors are keen to find out who has adopted their works for classes.

The Open Syllabus Project (OSP), a new database with three million course syllabuses, is designed to help both groups, and possibly also aid textbook publishers to better understand the ways in which faculty use course materials for teaching. OSP, set to open in January 2017, isn’t the first of its kind, according to an article in Nature, but it will be the largest to date.

Another database, Open Syllabus Explorer, launched in early 2016 with plans to expand its inventory next year to three million syllabuses cross-referenced with 150 million texts. Both databases can be searched in a number of ways: by academic field, textbook author, institution, and other criteria.

2016 11 02

__Canadian Federation of Students – National Day of Action on November 2 _ http://www.cfs-fcee.ca/ _ Live via Twitter _ https://twitter.com/hashtag/alloutnov2 _ Issues in Postsecondary Education in Canada – Public Funding Cuts & Tuition Increases & Student Debt _ https://lnkd.in/eZsUeAU

__Students are mobilizing across the country for our vision for post-secondary education in Canada. Canadian Federation of Students – National Day of Action on November 2 – Issues in Postsecondary Education in Canada – Public Funding Cuts & Tuition Increases & Student Debt _ http://www.cfs-fcee.ca/the_issues _

2016 11 02

Baird Whelan

Sr. Learning Experience Designer

Graphic design legend Milton Glaser dispels a universal misunderstanding of design and art — “Design is the process of going from an existing condition to a preferred one,” said the 2010 National Medal of Arts recipient.

“Design has nothing to do with art”: Design legend Milton Glaser dispels a universal misunderstanding

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Design is not art. It’s a distinction understood by practicing designers, but it still eludes many. In an Oct. 29 talk at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the 87-year-old graphic design legend Milton Glaser gave the best definition of the practice of design.

“Design is the process of going from an existing condition to a preferred one,” said the 2010 National Medal of Arts recipient. “Observe that there’s no relationship to art.”

This confusion is not just a matter of semantics. In businesses, schools, offices, even newspapers, design is often associated with the art department. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the aim of design. When art and design are confused, the designers’ domain becomes limited to style and appearance.

__Thanks Baird, it’s good to clarify any misunderstanding and promote greater awareness of the role and purpose of design. Many are aware of IBM’s transformation as a Design driven company and may enjoy this HOW podcast interview with Doug Powell at IBM Design – http://www.howdesign.com/how-design-live-podcast/doug-powell-future-of-design/_ Episode #28: Doug Powell on the Future of Design

2016 10 31

__Textbooks and Tuition up about 200% over 20 years, Mark Perry’s Chart of the Day III Aug 16 2016 via AEI – Carpe Diem Blog _ http://www.aei.org/publication/tuesday-evening-links-7/ _ [AEI’s Graphics by Olivier Ballou]

2016 10 31

__As a good example of Faculty offering Students cost saving options by modifying assessments to suit multiple resources/editions. Ohio State University economics professor, Lucia Dunn, said she allows students to use [lower cost] older editions of textbooks instead of newer ones, and provides students with chapter assignments to accompany it. __

Textbooks: Prices are rising, but students aren’t paying

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Kathy Smith, manager of Barnes & Noble at Ohio State, said the prices of textbooks at OSU are consistent with the prices of similar items at other universities. Book prices themselves are set by publishers, who sell to the bookstore at a fixed cost regardless of the quantity purchased, she said. Barnes & Noble then adds an “industry-standard margin” on top of this price to cover its costs of doing business.

Lucia Dunn, an economics professor, said publishers release new editions of textbooks too frequently, which drives up prices. Dunn specifically mentioned a representative from McGraw-Hill who once told her, if possible, publishers aim to revise books every 18 months.

“They have got the authors of these textbooks who are working on these books constantly updating it, when, in fact, there is no need to change the textbook in some fundamental areas, like economics, every 18 months,” Dunn said. “The laws of supply and demand don’t change every 18 months.”

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2016 10 31

__ Coursera Introducing Monthly Subscriptions for Specializations – Pay $39 to $89 per month for the time you actually spend learning. With all courses in subscription-based Specializations running at least monthly, you can complete a Specialization in as little as a month (if, for example, you’re already familiar with some of the material), or over several months (if the topic is completely new to you). __

Introducing Subscriptions for Specializations

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By Tom Willerer, Chief Product Officer of Coursera

At Coursera, we believe education is a lifelong pursuit, and we want to empower you to achieve your goals throughout your life and career. We’re continually working to improve our courses and platform to give you access to relevant content, and to help you learn more efficiently and effectively.

Today, we’re excited to announce Specialization subscriptions – a new payment model that allows you to purchase access to all content in a Specialization on a month-by-month or annual basis, so that you’re paying only for the amount of time you need to learn the material and earn your Certificate.

You can now subscribe to some Specializations on Coursera for a monthly fee rather than paying up front for an entire course or Specialization, and this payment model will be rolled out to many of our most popular Specializations over the coming months. Subscriptions are typically priced from $39 to $89 per month for access to one Specialization, with no long-term commitment required. Subscribing to a Specialization gives you access to all content in every course in the Specialization for as long as your subscription is active. Based on the completion times that we typically see for our most popular Specializations, the subscription model has the potential to reduce costs for many learners.

2016 10 30

__Short videos by each CEO help describe important role/use of design – “a way to translate your ideals and you values into something people can touch and see and hold,”

Beau’s Brewery CEO/Co-Founder & Tangerine President/CEO Named Canada’s DesignThinkers of the Year

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In its fourth year, the DesignThinker of the Year Award recognizes Canadian corporate leaders who use design and innovation to solve business problems and drive growth. Past recipients are Larry Rosen, CEO of Harry Rosen Inc.; David Labistour, president and CEO of MEC; Michael Emory, president and CEO of Allied Properties REIT; and Stephen Alexander, founder of Cumbrae’s.

2016 10 28

__This campaign raising awareness that Free Open Textbooks are a cost-saving option is an important initiative. However, Rory McGreal is misleading readers about the profitability of educational publishers – research will find they are making very little, if any, profits. Also worth noting that it’s BCcampus policy to “keep each textbook static”, i.e. not to update the open textbooks in their library – “This can be disruptive to faculty and students currently using the textbook” _https://lnkd.in/edGmXxm. __ https://lnkd.in/etF3sWK

Cash-strapped Alberta students leading a push for ‘open textbooks’ | Metro News

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Representatives from five schools across province launched the #textbookbrokeAB campaign to showcase the money students spend on books.

By: Alex Boyd Metro Published on Thu Oct 27 2016

With students facing a bigger financial crunch than ever, a group of Alberta students are taking aim at one of their biggest money sinks: textbooks.

Representatives from five schools across Alberta launched the #textbookbrokeAB campaign this fall to showcase the amount of money students are spending on books.

Instead, they want schools to look more seriously at open source textbooks, or books that have been published and licensed to be used by anyone.

It’s an idea gaining momentum in other places, including B.C.

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2016 10 27

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__Don Gorges Archive of LinkedIn Posts & Links October 24 to October 29 _ Topics – Perspectives – Sectors : Open Design Visual Communications Creative Marketing Education __

Don Gorges Archive of LinkedIn Posts & Links October 24 to October 29

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2016 10 29

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