Collection of Graphics Available on Refreshed MindWires Website
/Today we launched a refreshed website for MindWires, our consulting and market analysis company that pays the bills and funds our blogging habits. Why? First, we needed to jump on the scrollable content block website bandwagon within the first decade of its ubiquity – it’s the law. Second, we are working to align our business much closer to the current needs of higher education, particularly on the response to COVID-19 and the mass transition to online and hybrid education. But surely you’re not interested in reading about a refreshed website, are you?
A License Is Not Enough
We at MindWires frequently get asked about the ability for people to reuse our graphics that appear here on the PhilOnEdTech blog (or historically at e-Literate) or as part of our consulting practice. These requests are well-intentioned, but we license all our public graphics (and the full PhilOnEdTech blog and MindWires website) with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY). You can always retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute (the 5 Rs) our graphics, as long as you give attribution to PhilOnEdTech, MindWires, and/or LISTedTECH – depending on the logo on the image. Nevertheless, we still get requests.
I’m happy to answer these requests, and this has led to discovering new material that I might not otherwise have seen. For example, Ida Fonkoué and Ramon Fonkoué published an article today in the Life Science Teaching Resource Community’s blog, using two graphics we have shared on the COVID-19 driven mass transition to online and hybrid education we’re experiencing.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a total and sudden reshaping of the academic landscape across the country, with hundreds of institutions moving administration entirely online and shifting to online instruction for the remainder of the spring semester or for both spring and summer. This sudden transition with practically no time to prepare has major implications for students and faculty alike, and poses serious challenges to a smooth transition as well as effective online teaching on such a large scale. Out of these challenges, two issues in particular are examined here:
– the disparity in resources and preparedness for effective online
– teaching the implications of the migration to virtual classrooms for diversity and inclusion
The problem is that we should make it easier for people to find and use our graphics. We should reduce the friction.
Collection of Graphics
As part of the new website, we have created a Free Resources page that collects many of our graphics in one place, organized by category (e.g. LMS, COVID-19, EdTech, OPM).
You can click on any image and get a button that links back to an associated blog post or presentation, for context, and a button to download the full-size image.
For graphics such as the LMS Market Share in North America (aka the squid graphic) that are updated frequently, we share the most recent version. We plan to keep this resource page up-to-date with new images, and soon we will add many of our data visualization graphics as well.
We hope this new set of resources will be useful and make it easier for people to access and use our graphics. Head on over to the Free Resources page, and let us know any feedback you have.
