OER Materials Drive Student Engagement and Savings, Study Finds by Meghan Bogardus Cortez
There is much work to be done in researching both the benefits and the downsides to OER, but I feel like the largest hurdle will continue to be convincing faculty that it does not necessarily need to be more work to utilize OER than traditional textbooks.
However, that requires work from the community to collect and review materials already available.
Heroes preparing to make the leap by Lars Vogdt
Some really great infrastructure updates for the openSUSE community. Thank you to everyone involved!d
Ask a Repair Shop by Philip Yurchuk
An interesting look at the mindset around the purchasing of enterprise software. Obviously, there is no simple answer to all of the problems inherent with the purchasing and managing of large software products, but speaking with those who work with integrating solutions within similar institutions can be enlightening.
Plasma, Ceph, Git Update in Tumbleweed by Douglas DeMaio
Tumbleweed continues to just keep rolling with the updates and Leap 42.3 is being prepped for release as well. openSUSE, as a community, continues to really surprise me with what they are doing and Leap 15 (they are going to match the SUSE Linux Enterprise scheme now) is shaping up to be even better.
Day One Goes Premium by Day One
This week we’re releasing the Day One Premium subscription service. It includes the ability to create more than ten journals and access all future premium features.
While I do not use more than 10 journals, this sounds like a warning that new features are going to be effectively hidden behind a pay wall. I have enjoyed using Day One, but only as a simple place to write personal thoughts.
I can do that same in many other applications and plan to do so. First place for me to look is Notes.app.