News: Academic Publishing Weekly, 1/18/21-1/22/21
PROSE awards, ebook price gouging, and a publishing boycott of Trump books
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PROSE awards, ebook price gouging, and a publishing boycott of Trump books
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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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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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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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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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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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A textbook, no less than any other text, must not be regarded simply as an assemblage of interchangeable parts.
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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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