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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.
And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Some professors have aesthetic objections to OER materials. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Because most U.S.
I have to say that the conference organizers’ really welcoming attitude towards the involvement of Virtually Connecting showed true commitment to expanding access and openness (thank you Clint Lalonde and David Wiley). Access is an issue. I wrote last week about a global South view of copyright and open access.
Easier access to performance data across multiple learning solutions? When school districts build interoperable, device-agnostic learning ecosystems, they offer students access to a wider range of digital learning tools and curricula, as well as provide more effective ways for schools to manage their digital programs.
(By the way, my part is using the platforms that I have access to to promote this and other projects like it. One of the main challenges to adoption of DiPo was that it was in wiki format, which can be a technical barrier. One of the main challenges to adoption of DiPo was that it was in wiki format, which can be a technical barrier.
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. ” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine ). Over 1 billion openly licensed materials are published online.
We provide access. These new collections support new literacies and leverage the new bounty of open educational resources (OER) supported by the White House’s #GoOpen initiative, as well as streamed media, and software for creating and sharing powerful, effectively, ethically produced digital stories. April 29, 2016.
What can be provided with low bandwidth and quick access limitations? Determine community Wifi access points that may be available still allowing for social distancing… parking lots for uploads and downloads, etc. Investigate possible home connect programs for students who do not have access. Resources From Michael Gorman.
This wiki approach to a catalog encourages new information as well as corrections from the user community. And the search extends beyond books other types of documents–patents, yearbooks and open-access research papers. Recent enhancements allow for even more openness. Full-text search.
Access and convenience remain major motivations that bring learners to open content. Bonk mentioned some early wiki work ( Wikibooks ) where noncredentialed users were prevalent. However, most people remain unaware of OER. But now a wider range of population participate in online learning, both as students and teachers.
You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.
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