eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

As schools and districts try to reduce textbook costs and digitize instructional resources, one of the struggles many teachers have is finding good repositories of open education resources (OER). The first step is to know how to access OER resources. Accessing OER. How to find OER.

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Last week I posted the middle section of the presentation, How Generative AI Affects Open Educational Resources , in which I described how we need to move beyond narrow thinking about how generative AI impacts our work with traditional OER and begin thinking more broadly about the power generative OER.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Digital textbooks are textbooks that teachers and learners can access online or download to their devices. In addition, educators and learners can access them on multiple devices at any time. . OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). Core Knowledge. TextBookGo.

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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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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Digital access : Advocating for learners, families and staff members to have equitable access to technology, digital resources and the internet. Download the free e-book 3. Hāpara can help your school or district easily build and distribute a digital OER textbook collection.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. The breach affects 1.3

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Your school or district can also use digital textbooks that are part of open educational resource (OER) repositories. There are several high-quality OER sites that feature digital textbooks for K-12. Digital textbooks are also easily updated across the school district since teachers and learners access them online. Learn more.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

The six-week long MOOC will touch on topics including open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy and practice, open knowledge and open research. Faculty that don’t want to access the content in edX can easily download and use any of content we’ve developed. Siemens: We’ll discuss the OER and licensing dynamics.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

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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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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. The breach affects 1.3

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

This material was created by David Wiley and you can download, edit and share it for free under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER.

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 13, 2024

I’m interested in solving problems of access and effectiveness in education. Below is my current best thinking about how open education and generative AI can come together to help us make progress on problems of access and effectiveness. As they say, you should fall in love with your problem , not your solution.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

You can find these digital textbooks on open educational resource (OER) sites. Learners simply need to log in to their learning system to access them. . If they download a book to view offline, they can simply download the updated version. The good news is that they can access digital textbooks on different devices. .

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

If you wish to have a copy of my free “Unpacking Standards for Technology Integration Form”… Download… unpack_standards_mjgormans… and remember to give credit! Open Education Resources – Talk about big, this network brings together 44,129 OER tools for sharing curriculum.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites).

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. But it was clear to our little group, that to the larger majority of the participants, we were not even on the OER radar. Some OER background: Launched in October, GoOpen is a U.S. What are OER? We made an impact.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

You can right click and download a copy. Download the transcript. This means that you can write your own textbooks, share them, or use them as you would any other OER or open education resource. What is the Mathematical Association of America and what K12 resources can I access? These are accessible, findable online.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

After all, she adds, someone going to get classroom materials might not want want the platform to suggest buying non-educational items, like groceries, after downloading a resource. My sense of publishers is that they’re in this mode of dismissing OER entirely, and it’s a crazy mistake,” he adds.

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IT Bill

JUNE 27, 2017

The June issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL) is dedicated to Open Educational Resources (OER). Several of the studies focus specifically on OER and student learning outcomes. Certainly one of the main advantages of adopting OER is lowering the costs to students.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2018

As the title of the document makes explicit, the framework aims to contribute to the conversation about the sustainability of OER: “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship” It’s a valuable contribution to that conversation. I struggle to see how this will be possible.

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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.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

She’s enthusiastic about accessing Open Up Resources’ materials on the Kiddom platform. “By Sliwerski says the actual numbers may be higher since the materials are openly licensed and are downloaded for free from its website. The publisher’s two textbooks are used in about 500 U.S.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

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. It is a free platform giving access to high-quality teaching resources. Another plus… it is free.

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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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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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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 28, 2017

Offering a familiar, filtered Amazon search/shopping interface, Inspire allows educators to discover, download, curate and share Open Educational Resources (OER). Amazon retreated into a private beta only available to those with a special access code. (I Symbaloo on OER Resources. I could not get a code.:-().

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

”, you declare, “the overwhelming majority of OER in the world are licensed in ways that permit commercial use, so what’s the problem?” They provide free and open access to all their content online. Their platform for hosting, authoring, and remixing OER is open source and available via GitHub.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 8, 2019

Those students, fueled on basics but allowed instant access to all other human knowledge without normalizing , could flourish and become the future leaders we so desperately need. Confusion about quality and actual rigor are added by the OER preferential language of both the federal government and the states. Imagine that.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In this special episode, Kasey shares 30 Things You Didn’t Know Google Slides Could Do and a FREE eBook download with templates! Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. BONUS: Get access to Kasey’s FREE Canva headers to use in Google Keep.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. Central Valley is one of several Beaver County school districts finding ways to supplement or completely replace paper textbooks with online materials such as eBooks, downloadable apps and openly licensed educational resources.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2016

The idea of “open” intersects with education and educational technology in many places – open content, open educational resources, open access, open data, open knowledge, open source, and open standards. download, duplicate, store, and manage). download, duplicate, store, and manage). Open Access.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The App Hub is dedicated to bringing transparency to developers’ data and accessibility policies, and to help decision-makers find information about apps to meet the unique learning goals and policies of their school districts.”. Developers Resource Page – a resource page for app developers to access best practices and policies.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They would be delivered to your learning management system or downloaded into an Excel notebook, or whatever vehicle can absorb them.”. Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license. Will the system provide access to evidence-based resources?

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

link] Apps by Task you want students to do: Click to enlarge or right click to download. It has forums, messages, files, calendar, and more to create an online presence for your class.

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