Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2020

In this first bite-sized installment I’m going to address the major flaw in the OER definition provided as part of the recent UNESCO OER Recommendation. For a license to be “open,” it must grant the following permissions: “no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation, and redistribution by others.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At OpenEd18 I gave a presentation titled “Questioning the OER Orthodoxy: Is the Commons the Right Metaphor for our Work?” After this brief discussion, I asked “what if the commons is the wrong metaphor for our work with OER?” During the presentation, I shared the following contrasts between a commons and OER.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Communications librarian Kristen Hoffman oversees much of the OER work at Seattle Pacific University, a Christian university in Washington. Pricey textbooks and access codes are a national challenge. The campus as a whole is still not behind OER,” says Michael Whitchurch, digital learning services librarian BYU.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

The initiative intends to create degree pathways with courses that only use open educational resources, known as OER, so students don’t have to spend money on class materials. College of the Canyons’ history with OER starts before Anagnonson’s dabble, however. Using OER in those courses, she added, “really started out of necessity.”

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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. However, OER are not CPRs. It almost breaks my brain just thinking about it.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like: What would happen if students had access to a catalog of free and?this The funds will cover financial support and mentorship for faculty who create new open educational resources (OER for short) or adapt existing open textbooks. Filling the Gaps Subjects like English and lower-level math are well-covered in the OER ecosystem.

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Next week I hope to post the first section of the presentation, which outlines the reasons why people who care deeply about affordability, access, and improving outcomes should consider shifting their focus away from OER (as we have understood it for the last 25+ years) and toward generative AI.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

the internet, knowledge, OER) is a commons. They looked at ease of access to digital forms of knowledge and easy new ways to store, access and share knowledge as a common. OER are not a common pool resource and the community of creators and users that have formed around them are not a commons.

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Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? Because these resources are open to use, when you share an OER, other educators across the globe can access it and use it in their classrooms. Types of OER you can develop for K-12. Graphics like this angle reference graphic.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. 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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

New and traditional publishers are trying to offer alternatives such as open educational resources (OER), or freely downloadable and adaptable learning materials. But some providers of OER still ask for fees in return, and that has advocates concerned. Edward Watson.

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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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Doug Levin

JANUARY 15, 2016

Note that while the law refers to LEAs and SEAs instead of the more colloquial school districts and state departments of education, I will use them synonymously in this discussion. provide students access to technology resources they may be lacking by virtue of being located in rural, remote or underserved areas.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 14, 2015

As I wrote last month: Efficacy refers to whether a drug demonstrates a health benefit over a placebo or other intervention when tested in an ideal situation, such as a tightly controlled clinical trial. And they need to purchase the open access option for these articles so we can all read them.) Efficacy and Comparisons.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

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. What makes Expii unique? Follow the hashtag to learn more.

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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. For this reason I will refer to it as finding the technology in the standard. Remember OER resources provide curriculum that: Makes learning more authentic by giving the teacher the ability to localize learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Back in February, an EdWeek brief reported that Amazon Education was beta-testing a new platform with educators, helping teachers navigate the jungles of open educational resources (OER). As such, whether these platforms can refer to themselves as 100% open is up for debate. See two sides of the argument here and here.).

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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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

For this reason I will refer to it as finding the technology in the standard. 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. This wonderful OER makes it easy for teachers to assemble their own textbooks.

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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. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. For instance, Cornell University saved.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Alta at a Glance With Alta, Knewton aims to combine third-party open educational resources (OER) with assessments and the adaptive-learning technology created by the company to inform how students progress through the content. A two-year subscription to an Alta costs $44 per course for two years of access, or users can also opt to pay $9.95

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 24, 2015

For several years my colleagues and I have been conducting and reviewing empirical research on the impact on student outcomes when OER are adopted in place of commercial materials. Some studies of OER adoption show essentially no change in student outcomes. Suffice it to say the research results are highly variable.

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

As I understand it, negative liberty refers to the absence of external obstacles, barriers, roadblocks, hinderances, or constraints that interfere with my ability to accomplish my desires. Say, for example, that I want all my students to have access to the learning materials for my course, forever.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The recently published OER strategy document , as informative as it is, reads more like a list of issues and opportunities than what Michael Feldstein describes as “ rungs on a ladder of ambition.” I believe that is our best chance for enabling the true breakthroughs in pedagogy and access that are my end goal.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. For this reason, this doctrine is also referred to as the “exhaustion rule.”

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IT Bill

JULY 13, 2018

A recent study at the University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) looked at outcomes for students taking courses using traditional commercial textbooks versus open educational resources (OER). While previous studies have investigated OER and student achievement, they did not break out the results by household income, ethnicity, or part-time status.

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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.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

Another persistent trend is challenges caused by growing user numbers and activites, including both generating and demanding more data, online behavior abuses, security threats, and challenges about accessibility. He references the plight of adjuncts, including Doonesbury’s take. Can’t U’s use tech the same way?”

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The FDA uses more specific language: Efficacy refers to whether a drug demonstrates a health benefit over a placebo or other intervention when tested in an ideal situation, such as a tightly controlled clinical trial. In “the real world” the drug cured less than one tenth of one percent of patients. So how effective is the drug?

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Educator Innovator

MAY 3, 2018

Refer to the syllabus for information on all the annotatable readings and related events hosted by CLTV and others. You can also refer back to previous annotated articles at the Educator Innovator blog to access additional resources and connect conversations in this series. From Inquiry to Action at Heinemann.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy. For many years, community members have looked to public libraries to provide baseline, public, computer and internet access.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

▪Textbooks and OER. ▪Access Experts and Develop Skills. In the next posts we will examine what I refer to as my sweet sixteen tools and resources that can promote student centered learning using technology. Technology just might be the vehicle to allow this to happen. ▪Doors that Open. ▪Delivery of Learning.

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