I am excited to announce that we are beginning work on the Open Collaboration for Transformative Open Pedagogy to support Undergraduate Open Science Education project (OCTOPUS). That’s a mouthful, but the acronym is fun. Introduction Although most scientists agree that transparency and openness in science would strengthen and further scientific knowledge, open science is still…
Published in Educause Review, Feb 3, 2025 When considering how artificial intelligence (AI) has “disrupted” higher education, accurately characterizing the current landscape is essential. The number of college students struggling with mental health is at an all-time high.Footnote1 An overwhelming number of students describe their higher education experience as highly competitive and stressful. They worry about…
Read on Every Learner Everywhere Website In an earlier article on the Every Learner website, I argued that college and university faculty have a responsibility to support student development in the context of digital environments. Those environments may be familiar and commonplace, like social media platforms and a learning management system, or emerging, like AI-enabled…
Read on Every Learner Everywhere Website Every new generation of technology refreshes the need for educators to think critically about how students experience that technology and, hopefully, take command of it for their own purposes. To benefit from emerging tools, students need support from educators to develop a combination of digital fluency, digital identity, and…
Read on Every Learner Everywhere website Educators have an opportunity to take a leadership approach toward promoting AI literacy and implementing AI in digital teaching and learning. The decisions made by faculty, instructional designers, and students today will significantly influence the trajectory of Artificial Intelligence development. Therefore, higher education must understand the technology and take…
I attended two sessions at OE Global 2021 that were about “Web Monetization”. OK, to be truthful, I never would have chose these sessions to attend if I wasn’t “assigned” them by the conference organizers as part of my responsibility to report about sustainability in OER. Now I am really glad that I have learned…
