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JANUARY 13, 2012

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Edmodo Resources BYOD OER 145

Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This is the middle section of my September 19, 2024 presentation, Why Open Education Will Become Generative AI Education. Or, using the language I introduce below, from “traditional OER” to “generative OER.” And significantly more dramatic impacts are possible if we will reach for them.

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OER Resources Education Examples 137

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2019

Sadly, as Audrey Watters has frequently noted, it might be impossible to find a field of endeavor outside educational technology where more of the participants are so utterly ignorant of its history. (I How could the things we learned about educational radio possibly inform our work with education television? Or computers?

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OER System Exercises Course 129

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

As countless educators around the world have scrambled to figure out how to deliver lessons remotely with whisker-thin budgets, many turned to open education resources (OER). CK-12 is at the forefront of OER by doing adaptive and personalized learning. More people should be doing it the way they are.”

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OER EdTech Exercises Resources 211

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here’s another hint: they haven’t created a new open textbook since 2012. In 2002, UNESCO followed those leads choosing to name the subset of open content that was useful for teaching and learning “open educational resources,” instead of a name with “free” in the title.). Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

tl;dr – In order to be relevant today and in the future, a national open education strategy must (1) know exactly what it is trying to accomplish and (2) deeply integrate generative AI. WICHE is convening a series of conversations this week and next titled, “ Do We Need a National Open Education Strategy?

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Strategy OER Education Policies 133

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Since the New York Times named 2012 the year of massive open online courses (MOOCs), millions have flocked to platforms offering them such as edX and Coursera. This October, two open education pioneers are teaming up to pilot a new edX course titled “ Introduction to Open Education ” with hopes to amplify and answer some of these questions.

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MOOC OER Coursera Education 134

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2012 Kim Thanos and I founded Lumen Learning because, through our Gates-funded work on the Kaleidoscope Project, we had seen first-hand how hard it was for faculty to replace publisher materials with OER. It seemed like lots of people wanted to publish and share their own OER, but no one wanted to use anyone else’s.

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OER Khan Academy Case Study Course 113

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In that context, that non-disclosure may be revealing for how far Knewton, which has been one of the most well-funded education technology companies, has fallen short of financial expectations. Wiley, once a major publisher of higher-education materials, has seen its education publishing business shrink over the years.

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Knewton OER Industry Adaptive Learning 163

Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 7, 2016

Replacing disposable assessments with renewable assessments goes a long way toward re-humanizing education, giving students a reason to care about and truly invest in their work. ” First, think about three possible outcomes of OER adoption in terms of change in cost and change in learning: Students save money and learn less.

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Assessment OER Outcomes Examples 139

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. The bulk of my concern was expressed in these two paragraphs: Open education currently has no response to the coming wave of diagnostic, adaptive products coming from the publishers. Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks.

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OER LMS Pearson System 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called 2017: RIP OER? , I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. The bulk of my concern was expressed in these two paragraphs: Open education currently has no response to the coming wave of diagnostic, adaptive products coming from the publishers.

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OER Pearson System Assessment 60

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 3, 2015

I now have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of general education courses and some specific degree programs will transition entirely to OER in US higher ed. I spent most of my thinking time last week wondering about obstacles in the way of the ubiquitous adoption of OER in US higher education and how we might overcome them.

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OER Education Course Instructional Materials 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. As demand for low-cost, high-quality materials increased during the Great Recession, the nonprofit project shifted from curation to creation, publishing its first five free textbooks in 2012. Or at least, edited.

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Industry OER Course Company 116

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 24, 2025

Like the random person pulled off the street, most generative AI models are neither pre-trained nor fine-tuned with education in mind. Pedagogical Knowledge, which is deep knowledge about the processes and practices or methods of teaching and learning and how it encompasses, among other things, overall educational purposes, values, and aims.

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Training OER Blackboard Strategy 88

edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

Keys to the OER shift: – Community buy-in: The community wasn’t satisfied with the achievement levels and graduation rates. . In addition, while they educators are still responsible for helping students reach state standards and community growth expectations, one-third of lesson time is spent on items not on the state standards.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. I fear it is OER wanting it both ways. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 90

Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The general theme of the conversation has been a concern that a focus on open textbooks confuses the means of open education with the end of open education. The overall criticism about ends / means confusion may or may not be true – it depends entirely on what you think the end or goal of open education should be.

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OER Education Course Resources 60

User Generated Education

JULY 26, 2015

It should logically follow, then, that education should take advantage of these amazing developments. As many of us in education know, it has not. This theme has permeated many of my blog posts: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0. towards that of an Education 3.0.

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OER Resources Outcomes Accessibility 120

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2016

Competency-based learning has received widespread recognition as a way to better align higher education to careers. Under LeBlanc’s leadership, in 2012 SNHU was the only academic institution on Fast Company’’s World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies list. Those are the two fundamental questions at the heart of competency-based education.

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Competency Based Learning OER Assessment Company 107

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 28, 2018

This is another post in my series of posts showing gratitude and appreciation for members of the open education community. From their website: OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, and it’s our mission to improve student access to education. Today I’m going to focus on OpenStax.

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OER Adaptive Learning Outcomes Libraries 74

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Today is the final day of our five-day 2013 Global Education Conference. To receive the daily conference schedule, be sure to join the Global Education Conference network. A summary of today''s sessions is shown below in US-Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC-5). Recordings of all sessions are available here.

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OER Education Conference Mobility 56

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. Faculty Capacity and Support.

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OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Central Valley School District administrators envisioned such a shift when they decided to begin swapping paper textbooks for iPads in the 2012-13 school year. Openly licensed educational resources are free online learning materials that can be used for teaching, learning and assessing students’ knowledge. image via AP ].

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Here are four people I spent some time with and whose powerful ideas are changing education: Miguel Brechner. We can expect to see more projects of a similar nature taking hold in 2012. As a prime mover in the Open Educational Resources movement, Wayne Mackintosh must feel a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.

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OER Broadband Laptops Social Media 53

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad. “ Curation.”

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Each year, K-12 schools and districts that have leveraged technology to dramatically improve the educational experiences and achievements of their students are honored through SETDA’s Student Voices program. She is passionate about leveraging technology’s promise to improve education. You can learn more about Operation Bee here.

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OER Tools E-rate Blackboard 41

edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2018

Questioning the quality of instructional materials isn’t new to the digital education era. But with the rise of OER, growing use of supplemental resources over core textbooks, and the increasing flexibility of state funding, more purchasing decisions have moved to the school and district level. Flexibility in adoption options.

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Instructional Materials Resources OER Policies 40

Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

” What does open education mean for higher education? We then asked the audience to pick which aspect of open education we should pursue: psychology, design, personalization, professional development, adult learners, motivations, audiences, global perspectives, or cultural sensitivity?

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Trends MOOC Coursera Education 42

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2021

The project is an initiative of the Gigabit Libraries Network (GLN), founded by Means in 2012 as an open global collaboration of tech-savvy, innovation libraries. She provides continuing education for practitioners at national and regional conferences. John has authored several papers documenting the benefits of broadband.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 23, 2021

The project is an initiative of the Gigabit Libraries Network (GLN), founded by Means in 2012 as an open global collaboration of tech-savvy, innovation libraries. She provides continuing education for practitioners at national and regional conferences. John has authored several papers documenting the benefits of broadband.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2021

The project is an initiative of the Gigabit Libraries Network (GLN), founded by Means in 2012 as an open global collaboration of tech-savvy, innovation libraries. She provides continuing education for practitioners at national and regional conferences. John has authored several papers documenting the benefits of broadband.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The project is an initiative of the Gigabit Libraries Network (GLN), founded by Means in 2012 as an open global collaboration of tech-savvy, innovation libraries. She provides continuing education for practitioners at national and regional conferences. John has authored several papers documenting the benefits of broadband.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The project is an initiative of the Gigabit Libraries Network (GLN), founded by Means in 2012 as an open global collaboration of tech-savvy, innovation libraries. She provides continuing education for practitioners at national and regional conferences. John has authored several papers documenting the benefits of broadband.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 50

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The project is an initiative of the Gigabit Libraries Network (GLN), founded by Means in 2012 as an open global collaboration of tech-savvy, innovation libraries. She provides continuing education for practitioners at national and regional conferences. John has authored several papers documenting the benefits of broadband.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

This new role for educators is a direct outcome of the data-driven classroom and the quest for accountability. While teachers may understand the need to collect the information, they resent inputting the same data over and over again in every learning management system, educational application, and state and federal accountability report.

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Data Report OER Policies 40

edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

Now education decision makers across America can see detailed reviews compiled in multiple states, to facilitate the evaluation and purchase of print and digital materials for students and teachers. Dashboard Views and Options.

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Instructional Materials Accessibility Policies OER 43