Category: Blog
Introducing InclusiveAccess.org
By Judith Sebesta, Ph.D., Executive Director, DigiTex Knowledge should be free. –Kaushik Sinha The price of college textbooks has skyrocketed over the past 30 years. Continue Reading
An Academic Staff’s Journey to Open Education Leadership
by Beatrice Canales, MLS, Academic Unit Assistant, MESSH-Early Childhood Studies, San Antonio College “Show me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” –Confucian philosopher, Xun Kuang Professional development in open… Continue Reading
Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education Booklet
Happy Monday, DigiTexans! Those of you who have been following our blog post series, Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education, might be interested in our newest publication, a compilation of all five posts in this series. You can access this publication… Continue Reading
Creating My First OER
by Ursula Pike, Associate Director, DigiTex In August 2020, I joined SPARC’s Open Education Leadership Program. The year-long program provided me the opportunity to gain an in-depth knowledge of Open… Continue Reading
Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education: CALCampus, Synchronous Learning, & Early Use of “OER”
by Heather Walker, Program Coordinator, DigiTex Around the same time that Project Athena and the Andrew Project were first getting off… Continue Reading
Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education: Course Sharing through Mind Extension University
by Heather Walker, Program Coordinator, DigiTex In 1998, the Virtual College of Texas (VCT) was established to facilitate digital course sharing in the state of Texas, with the goal of allowing students across the state to access the courses that… Continue Reading
The Digital Divide and H.B. 5 (or Hank, and the “Tail” of No Broadband)
by Judith Sebesta, Ph.D., Executive Director, DigiTex One of the most significant barriers to digital education is the “digital divide”: lack of access to reliable, affordable high-speed internet and adequate devices to capitalize on that access. Primary, secondary, and… Continue Reading
Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education: MIT’s Project Athena & Integrated Computing
“Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Building 10 and Dome (1975)” by Roger W is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Heather Walker, Program Coordinator, DigiTex Imagine a college classroom stripped of technology: no instructor or student computers, no projector,… Continue Reading
Open Texas 2021 Reflections
by Ursula Pike, Associate Director, DigiTex On March 11 and 12, DigiTex joined with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Digital Library to… Continue Reading
Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education: The Andrew Project at Carnegie Mellon University
Groundbreaking though it was, the communication potential that was exhibited by ARPANET was constrained by the prohibitive expense of computers as well as their relatively limited functionality at the time. It wasn’t until October 1981, when President Richard Cyert of Carnegie Mellon University created a project task force to study the future of computing at the university, that networked computing began to enter a new phase. Continue Reading