About Our New Website: Choice360.org
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Choice editor and publisher Mark Cummings offers his thoughts on the redesigned Choice website
Mark Cummings
Mark Cummings served as the editor and publisher at Choice from 2013 to 2022.
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Affordable or Open?
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The real promise of open educational resources lies not in their affordability but in their potential to change teaching and learning.
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Course Materials Adoption: A Choice White Paper
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A Choice survey of some 88,000 instructors reveals some interesting misconceptions about the definition and purpose of open educational resources.
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Evaluating the Open Educational Resource
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It is important to recognize that course materials are evaluated and adopted by the instructors themselves, who care first and foremost about the quality of the instruction they offer.
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Switching Costs
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For the goal of creating these more open and equitable systems of scholarship to become a reality, we need to understand the real-world friction that inhibits change instead of looking for villains.
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The Open Choice Review Template
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For OER to succeed as alternatives to commercially produced materials, they must be of a quality equal to or better than these competing works, sufficiently so as to win the trust of instructors in the field.
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What is a Textbook?
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A textbook, no less than any other text, must not be regarded simply as an assemblage of interchangeable parts.
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Alternative Facts
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We need to heed the tenets of information literacy we teach others, including knowing the source of the news we receive and, yes, going so far as to pay for professionally produced and curated information.
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An Imperial Message
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The act of communication always involves a loss, the transmission of information that is no longer current, just as our eyes are always showing us a world that existed a moment before.
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The “Issue” Issue
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At ChoiceReviews.org, we publish new review content every day.