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@jmeowmeow Yes! Its just making the process of professors who do want to contribute to OER easier
A good reminder that maybe there are few professors who don't want to gatekeep knowledge and brand it like a luxury product but don't have the means to share it openly
@androcat Its readings curated by professors
"We hope our software provides a financially sustainable solution for opencourseware providers (OCWs) to continue open sourcing at the pace of teaching, with material that’s accessible to all learners" "As a proof of concept, we’ve previously published 30+ courses at universities without existing open access initiatives. All our courses are open sourced with the professor’s explicit consent"
Mastodon (mastodon.social)
"Low overhead and cost effectivity: We’ve previously published 31 open access courses on a total budget of $11k, for an average cost of $354 per course. Open sourcing with manual auditing costs $3.9M for 132 courses, which is $29.5k per course (including overhead)"
"By automating onerous workflows but focusing on quick manual review, our software helps publish more courses, more frequently, at a fraction of the cost and time"
Legit use of AI
"Quick publication with minimal effort from professors: Our median time to creating a course preview after receiving professor consent is under 1 week. Compiling and formatting materials can otherwise require months of review"
"We hope our software provides a financially sustainable solution for opencourseware providers (OCWs) to continue open sourcing at the pace of teaching, with material that’s accessible to all learners"
"As a proof of concept, we’ve previously published 30+ courses at universities without existing open access initiatives. All our courses are open sourced with the professor’s explicit consent"
"We grew up teaching ourselves online. When we wanted to explore beyond school, we turned to Phd field reading lists and MIT OpenCourseWare. But our reading often hit a wall: paywalls or out-of-date material limited what we could learn"
"We have high hopes for Coursetexts. We want to make the highest quality education available so anyone can be a true expert in their desired field. We want students to be limited only by their curiosity, not by access to materials"
Coursetexts is an open library of advanced course readings.
"A 501(c)(3) non-profit open-sourcing university & graduate-level courses, starting with MIT, Princeton, and Yale. Our goal is to enable anyone to learn deeply, without institutional barriers"
Coursetexts is open library of advanced course notes.
Coursetexts (coursetexts.org)
Coursetexts is open library of advanced course notes.
Coursetexts (coursetexts.org)
This is an extremely useful OER edtech project
Everytime you use an LLM for product work remember LLM output based on its loss function is basically the codification of 'You are the average of people you surround yourself with'
No matter the output of llms, remember that is always what's considered average. Endeavour to be beyond average.
Even if models improve, know that the bar of being average just improved
@simulo See for example this
I think Grudin would be astounded to see how much of HCI cannonical concepts and methods are really used in industry nowdays, especially startups
@simulo The frustration comes from the fact that the folks who want to make things pretty dominate the discourse now and have more hiring power which makes them devalue usability
Its not about being low status work but rather the way they completely erase usability as a skill that should be valued
"If you go to @opensourcedesign https://opensourcedesign.net/ points to Eriol @erioldoesdesign she's involved with this. Please talk to her. She's really good at this and I think she's got this really lovely website and I went there and 80% of the jobs were icon and image requests"
Copyright @ 2024 Eriol Fox Eriol Does Design is the portfolio and hub for Eriol’s design, research and open source work.
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And it's just so frustrating. In fact, if you really want to piss off a UX designer, this is guaranteed to work you basically say UX just makes things pretty. Guaranteed to start a fight"
""And they confused the shit out of everybody because design is 12 different things, it's not two things. To break it up into two things confuses everybody.
And so what do they end up thinking? They think, "Oh, it's just pixels." If you talk to somebody who's not a designer, they think design is pixels"
"And then along came Figma and just fucked everything up. Because we needed more UX designers the industry got flooded with visual designers who got really good at Figma and they're like, "We don't like being called visual designers, so we're going to take this word and we're put it over here and we're going to call it UX/UI"
"The way I like to phrase it is I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of a thousand sons"
"It is the most destructive term we have inflicted upon ourselves because it confuses everybody. So when I started back in the 80s we called it human interface and then as things went along it turned into UI. Same job we just were kind of like oh it's UI now. And then Don Norman and his friends came along and they called it UX still design"
The speaker calls it a role model for how we should fund and grow open-source UX research. Hard to disagree.
Ink & Switch is doing something worth knowing about. They fund small 1–3 person teams to do open-source research tight focus, 4 months. 3 months building a prototype, 1 month writing a paper about what worked and what didn't. Everything is open source: the code, the paper, all of it.
What makes it powerful is the compounding effect, universities pick it up, build on top of it, and suddenly you have a whole open-source research community growing from a tiny seed, all on a shoestring budget.
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? by Scott Jenson @scottjenson | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
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"Desktop UX hasn't meaningfully changed in 20 years"
"This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,” which is responsible for so much confusion and tension in open-source projects. Not only does it unnecessarily pit programmers against designers, but it also limits our vision of what we could be doing
