Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 31, 2020

I’m going to write a post or three about some of the friction that exists around using OER. There are some things about working with OER that are just harder or more painful than they need to be, and getting more people actively involved in using OER will require us to reduce or eliminate those points of friction.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2018

Can open educational resources, or OER, truly create more equity and access? That was the question at the heart of our #DLNchat on January 9, which centered around OER in Higher Education. Creative Commons or GNU, that specify how the resource may be reused, adapted, and shared.

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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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Hapara

MARCH 17, 2022

With just a few clicks, she shares the content with each student to quickly access it when they log in to their H?para One of Mrs. Perkins’s learners uses assistive technology , a screen reader, to read and can also access the digital materials. Accessing digital learning resources . At 11:00 a.m.,

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We have a similar problem in the open educational resources (OER) space. Many people are in the habit of referring to OER as a commons. OER are not like the shared resources at the center of traditional commons. If either of these conditions come to pass, everyone loses access to the shared resources and we all lose the game.

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Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

What I do want to comment on (in greater than 140 characters) is the practice of ‘openwashing:’ what it is, why I believe not being able to go beyond a pro-OER elephant test for organizations and service providers is untenable in practice, and some thoughts on what we can do about it. The Pro-OER Elephant Test.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2018

The commitment, in a nutshell, is to replace at least one textbook with open educational resources (OER) within one year, share in a community of practice with other school districts, and share the resources created with a Creative Commons license. The work begins with implementation and how schools plan to strategically scale OER.

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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. Our model was to be more than an OER aggregator,” Khosla says. “We

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

The teacher was able to stop with her group, quickly pull up an example problem on her device, project it on the screen and demonstrate to the whole class how to solve it. Vivi has made her more flexible in how she teaches and how she interacts with groups within her classroom. Has there been an impact on student engagement?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This approach improves access and learning as well when students play a role in the design of content, said some of the chat participants. People deserve to choose when, where and how to study.” People deserve to choose when, where and how to study. The #DLNchat community concurred. A3: mobile compatibility is a must.

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The shared core of the work we do in open education is increasing access to educational opportunity – with the long-term goal of making access to that opportunity truly universal – by licensing educational resources in ways that make them free and 5R-able. That is, by creating, sharing, and improving OER.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

His work has shown him that “it will definitely be a more sustainable initiative if it is collaborative—-whether it's OER, open access journals, etc.if OERs are often undervalued compared to their paid counterparts, posited Blake Gore of Vanderbilt University and Tanya Spilovy thinks librarians can help.

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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

APRIL 28, 2023

When you teach digital citizenship, you teach learners how to use the internet responsibly. Digital access : Advocating for learners, families and staff members to have equitable access to technology, digital resources and the internet. Digital etiquette : Teaching learners about how to use the internet in positive ways.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. Learners will read about and discuss rules, decision-making and how to socialize in the classroom. para Student Dashboard Digital Backpack gives learners one-click access to digital textbooks and other learning resources.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Jess Mitchell, senior manager of research and design at the Inclusive Design Research Centre , posed the question on Wednesday to a group of around 850 educators, librarians and other open-access enthusiasts at Lumen Learning’s OpenEd conference in Niagara Falls, NY.

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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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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

AUGUST 10, 2016

Because I can’t stop thinking about open, I’ve been pondering the relationship between solar power and OER. At the same time, I’ve been thinking about how to answer several questions I’m often asked. ”, “How can you sell OER if they’re free? OER are a lot like sunlight.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. The question we pondered was how to preserve these gains as teachers modified BHP courses, and specific lessons evolved over time. The challenge of using OER in the classroom is not just finding good content, but instilling good practices.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. If OER adoption were to become widespread among the majority of faculty, it became clear that someone would need to do something more than create OER, post it on a website, and give conference talks about it. Background and Some Problems.

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ProfHacker

APRIL 4, 2017

The concept of “Open,” particularly when it comes to Open Access, is something that we’ve written a lot about here at Profhacker. What I really like about this book is that it takes a really broad approach to open, including Open Pedagogy, Open Teaching, Open Access, and Open Data.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2017

Easier access to performance data across multiple learning solutions? When considering these questions, it’s also critical to think about interoperability and how different digital systems can be fully integrated and work together, even if they are built by different companies. Increased student engagement?

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K12 Open Ed

JANUARY 6, 2017

The folks at the Indiana Department of Education’s elearning group are working on an OER #GoOpen initiative, which includes a series of Twitter chats (#INeLearn). After this chat, I was struck by how important TRUST is to open learning, and again, how OER doesn’t necessarily have to coincide with open learning.

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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! para, where he explains how PBL and OER go hand-in-hand. . Where do teachers find OER? .

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

With digital textbooks, students learn how to use technology responsibly and pull information from a variety of digital sources. Digital textbooks teach students how to self-direct their own learning by using note-taking and highlighting tools. There are several high-quality OER sites that feature digital textbooks for K-12.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Commit to Ensuring Equity in Access and Opportunity. Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “

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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’ve ordered your book as well. Someone who agrees with my perspective on not reading many books about online classes is Michelle Pacansky-Brock.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

Amazon officials took down the offending content and pledged to quickly put a review system in place, but in the meantime they restricted access to the service to a select group of beta testers and the site fell off the radar for about a year. Then in July 2017 Amazon tried again, announcing a public beta version of Inspire.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

BBookX uses artificial intelligence to create OER texts for professors to use in their courses instead of traditional textbooks. More Human’ Another idea Bowen and Sparrow are working on right now is how to use AI to evaluate audio recordings of classroom lectures to provide feedback to instructors.

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Hapara

JANUARY 28, 2022

Additionally, the platform provides seamless management and distribution of open educational resources ( OER ), licensed content and materials created by school divisions. These digital resources can be accessed from anywhere on any device, so students have exactly what they need, no matter where learning takes place. About ERLC.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

From giving kids problems with the right level of difficulty to solving problems with students, learn how to take any math student to the next level. You’ll also learn about the open source resource, Expii invented by Po-Shen Loh and how you can use it. These are accessible, findable online. What makes Expii unique?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

My high hope: Why not show students how to create with VR and AR? 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. Not ready to dig through all OERs and curate on your own?

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

Are they denied access? Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER. It wraps pre-assessments, in situ formative assessments, and summative assessments around OER. Like Waymaker, OHM wraps these and other features around OER. Are they denied access?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2015

In a letter sent earlier this month, a group of ed-tech stakeholders urged the Obama administration to make federally-funded educational materials available as Open Educational Resources (OER). The letter was a response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s request for suggestions around how to strengthen the U.S.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2021

It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. P.S. I also have a README that tells how to do it. We are often told that the most important purpose of being open is to increase access. It is possible with great effort, but there are a number of problems.

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