Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

There would be huge benefits to the OER ecosystem if we made similar arguments with commercial publishers, helping them understand why switching to an OER model would be good for their business. Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model. And a switch to OER would help publishers solve both of them.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 23, 2018

By definition, open educational resources (OER) are licensed in a manner that gives you permission to change, update, and improve them. Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. Image credit Expectations are also changing in a knowledge and information-based society where information can easily be accessed from virtually anywhere.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

The most recent issue of IRRODL included an article titled Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance: A Case Study , by Juan I. This was justified by the fact that there is a lack of empirical evidence to support expanding the use of OER.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To hear some OER advocates describe it today in 2024, the same format that was being used in the late 2000s – traditional-looking textbooks published under open licenses – is the state of the art when it comes to open educational resources. OER have also been used as part of personalized, interactive courseware systems, too.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Finding good lessons, videos, articles and activities is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. Freddy has been studying how kids learn to read for four decades and has written more than 100 peer reviewed articles on the subject. Elfrieda “Freddy” H. Source: BHP.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2016

It’s been a good year for open educational resources (OER). made commitments this year to establish entire degree programs based solely on OER. Governor Jerry Brown set aside $5 million for OER degree programs in California community colleges. But “free” is not the only important characteristic of OER.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” ” The article poses three questions and answers them. Below I share some thoughts prompted by the article. How do we deliver better learning experiences to more students?

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. Stop buying lesson plans and worksheets and access the wonderful free resources available to you! Listen to this article. . para, where he explains how PBL and OER go hand-in-hand. .

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Back in February, an EdWeek Market brief reported that Amazon Education was starting to beta-test a new platform with educators, helping teachers navigate the jungles of open educational resources (or OERs, for short). Tory Patterson, co-founder of Owl Ventures As far as calling itself an OER platform, that is somewhat correct.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 14, 2015

And they need to purchase the open access option for these articles so we can all read them.) They currently partner with faculty to write these whitepapers – why not co-author peer-reviewed articles with these same faculty? That’s a fight I know OER can win. This is critically important to understand.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. To answer this question, I have to examine my own experience with OER and its advocates. Therefore, I had the simple mission of writing an openly-licensed textbook that not only addressed my students’ learning needs, but would be accessible to anyone.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 20, 2015

And as the copyright holders we are free to openly license our explanations, thereby creating OER alternatives to the All Rights Reserved explanations published and controlled by commercial publishers. The library is a trusted, capable, and unfortunately often overlooked potential partner for closing the access gap to commercial materials.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning. We don’t have to be enrolled in his class to access it. I’m also certain that as soon as I consider this article done, I will think of six more that should have absolutely been included within the list.

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Online Learning Learning OER Course 203

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. Inclusive access has already gotten up to acronym status,” he said.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

If you’re looking to bring these experiences to your students, there are infographics , articles , and books loaded with ideas and tutorials. High Hope #4: Cleanly Curated Open Education Resources In order for high quality OERs to be combined with high quality instructional design, teachers need tools that allow them to curate the resources.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Find standards-aligned content and assign practice exercises, videos and articles. Illuminations – Illuminations works to serve you by increasing access to quality standards-based resources for teaching and learning mathematics, including interactive tools for students and instructional support for teachers.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Past Series Articles. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. The point of emphasis for this article is item number three below. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites). Let’s take a look! Identify the standard. Reflect on the standard.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

I have also included links to over 45 valuable resources (Towards the bottom of the article). Check out this wonderful magazine for some great K12 educational articles, I will be presenting at Alan November’s BLC in Boston in July. I have three pre-conference workshops that you may want to register for.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 21, 2016

The authentic interdisciplinary text includes news articles, short stories, speeches, poems, historical documents and excerpts from classical literature, all selected to support the course of study for middle and high school, especially for English, social students, science. Registration is free.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. UPCEA’s eDesign Collaborative ), I spent hours doing my own personal research on my university’s open access policy and scouring the library website. case studies and articles I had purchased over the years). According to.

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OER Libraries Dropout Case Study 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

I’ll be writing a range of essays this year reflecting on two decades of work toward opening the core intellectual infrastructure of education (textbooks and other educational materials, assessments, and outcomes / objectives / competency statements) in order to increase access to and improve the effectiveness of education. Freeriders!

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

It boggles my mind that someone whose industry faces an existential threat from open educational resources (OER) still doesn’t know what open means. The amount of free information online dwarfs the amount of information available as OER. OER are not a threat to publishers simply because they’re free.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

If the workday of an adult typically requires seamless broadband access, then it’s reasonable that today’s students need the same access during their school day. The key is the state leadership to make broadband accessible to all. More important, states are starting to recognize the need for equitable access off site.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2016

McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, and Knovation, an online resource curation tool, announced a collaboration to expand and simplify educators’ and students’ access to professionally-evaluated, standards-aligned digital content.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

As explained by Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director of SETDA, during a recent edWebinar , this searchable information will help educational leaders ensure that the materials they purchase are high-quality, aligned with their standards and goals, and accessible to all students. This article was modified and published by EdScoop.

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Instructional Materials Accessibility Policies OER 56

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? Wikipedia defines the subscription model as a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service. a semester.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2019

[ Editor’s Note: This article was first published on the TCEA TechNotes blog.]. Is the tool easily accessible by your audience and across devices? Related: How to find, curate, and assess OER. What does that world call to mind? A simple Google Images search will reinforce that notion. Now think about curation.

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Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

In summary, their results suggested “no noticeable improvement” in standardized test scores (PISA) for reading, mathematics, or science in countries that heavily invested in classroom technology; thus, they do not believe expanding access to high-tech devices (1:1 Chromebook programs) will abate falling test scores. .

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 21, 2017

As I’ve written about at some length before, whether you’re talking about open content, open educational resources, open access (to research), open data, open knowledge, open source, or open standards, in all of these contexts “open” means: Free access to the content, resource, journal article, data, knowledge artifact, software, or standard, and.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The reason you’ve never heard anyone claim that tax status disqualifies companies from participating in or benefiting from open source is that Article 6 of the Open Source Definition – No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor – explicitly prohibits us from doing so. Seriously – stop and think about it for a moment.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Now that the book is appearing in print, I’m publishing the full-text chapter here so that there will be an easier-to-access open access version of the chapter available online. Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). Pearson agreed. Education is Sharing.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I wish to share with you this article I wrote for PBLWorks (BIE/BUCK Institute) of which I am part of the National Faculty. I hope pou find this first article helpful and that you return for continued postings in this series. Read the article or watch the webinar. Read the article or watch the webinar (future).

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2016

The article makes a strong argument for the importance of interoperability among learning platforms, tools, and content. While I think this is more accidental than malicious, as I’ll explain below, the article needs a clear response. Open Access. The Smallest Possible Review of “Open” in Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

Related: How to sort the good from the bad in OER. As we work to provide all learners access to educations that prepare them to thrive in the twenty-first century, personalized social-emotional supports must be part of the conversation. Jessica Berlinski , Juliette Berg and Maurice Elias contributed to this article.

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