{"id":808,"date":"2018-11-09T21:53:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/?p=808"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:01:53","slug":"lumen-seeks-continuous-improvement-of-oer-in-two-prong-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/lumen-seeks-continuous-improvement-of-oer-in-two-prong-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumen&#8217;s Two-Prong Approach for Continuous Improvement of OER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downes.ca\/cgi-bin\/page.cgi?post=68791\">oldaily,<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to this article, Lumen Learning &#8220;has launched the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/why\/learning-challenges-leaderboards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learning Challenges Leaderboards<\/a>&#8216; &#8230; as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/page\/coming-together-to-improve-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE and Shine<\/a>, a community effort to improve the OER.&#8221; The leaderboards &#8220;provide a fine-grained view into the specific skill-level outcomes students struggle with the most.&#8221; RISE and Sine is &#8220;a community-based continuous improvement process.&#8221; What I find interesting is the vague phrasing of the learning objectives on the leaderboard, using verbs like &#8220;explain&#8221; and &#8220;describe&#8221; and &#8220;determine&#8221; (which at best require a rote response) rather than performance-based objectives, such as &#8220;calculate&#8221; or &#8220;measure&#8221; or &#8220;model&#8221;. Maybe what RISE is measuring is bad learning objectives, not bad learning resources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This speaks to how varied writing objectives has become. What Stephen identifies as a problem of vague verbs is <del datetime=\"2018-11-09T15:53:32+00:00\">actually<\/del> likely a lack of the two other key components of learning objectives: conditions and criteria (note that&#8217;s looking at it from a competencies perspective, I have not adopted the SMART objective writing style myself). I&#8217;ve seen a lot of this, particularly in higher ed, focus on verbs and Bloom&#8217;s taxonomy handouts. Much of the professional development offered on writing objectives ends at the action part and totally misses what makes an objective a clear performance (either the action condition criteria OR SMART formats). Unfortunately the Lumen Learning site appears to be down for the time being so I am unable to verify my hunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via oldaily, According to this article, Lumen Learning &#8220;has launched the &#8216;Learning Challenges Leaderboards&#8216; &#8230; as well as RISE and Shine, a community effort to improve the OER.&#8221; The leaderboards &#8220;provide a fine-grained view into the specific skill-level outcomes students struggle with the most.&#8221; RISE and Sine is &#8220;a community-based continuous improvement process.&#8221; What I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology-and-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}