🎙️ The desk of a podcaster 🙈
Had a wonderful conversation with Dr Mais Fatayer and Dr Julian Pakay, today, all about using OER to address teaching challenges and whether there are some things open ed can do that AI can’t 🤔

Keep an eye out for Julian’s episode of #SpeakingOfOpen coming soon to earbuds near you 🤩

I’m off to go translate all these notes into a legible format so we can get this episode to you before the month is out 🥳

👀 Check out the pod: https://tinyurl.com/SoOPod

#OpenEducation #OER #OEP #Podcasts #OpenPedagogy #RenewableAssessment #OpenTextbooks #AustralianOpenEd #AustraliOER #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #TeachingAndLearning #SoTL #HighEducation #DownUndOER

The far right's war on higher ed. & esp. the liberal arts is an attack on democracy. Unless stopped, it will play out on many US campuses.

“This is a test case for a conservative overhaul of higher education – and it isn’t going to stay isolated to New College or Florida.”

-Gender St. faculty, New College, resigned Prof. Clarkson.

#newcollege #desantis #fl #florida #HighEducation #universities #farright #rightwing @politicalscience @histodons @sociology @anthropol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/03/new-college-florida-desantis-teachers

"[L]evels of investment have in many cases dropped from about half of a university’s budget to less than 10 percent."

https://www.chronicle.com/article/higher-ed-is-a-public-good-lets-fund-it-like-one?cid=gen_sign_in

#higheducation #studentdebtcrisis