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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Hapara

JUNE 16, 2022

Open educational resources, also known as OER, provide a great way to supplement curriculum to differentiate instruction and better meet each learner’s needs in your classroom. This use case is the perfect example of when OER can come to the rescue. So what does that mean? What is differentiation? Addressing reading levels.

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Differentiated Instruction OER Resources Hapara 147

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. This principle fails to apply to OER in multiple ways. We could go on.

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OER Resources Groups Accessibility 103

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

It also helps schools reach goals like higher student success, better data analysis, more robust cybersecurity and easier access to education technology, the report’s authors explain. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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Competency Based Learning OER Data Comparison 285

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 14, 2017

to do continuous improvement in education, you need OER (permission to change) plus analytics (info about what to change). I’m a huge fan of R and R Studio and use them regularly for data extraction, cleaning, and analysis. But recently I’ve found myself spending more time in the machine learning space.

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Analysis Data Tools Learning 94

Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

A commitment to using, creating, and sharing open educational resources (OER) allows teachers to contribute their expertise to support the entire field and receive feedback on their work that can help their own professional growth. Kulik Educational Outcomes of Tutoring: A Meta-analysis of Findings. Educational Researcher, Vol.

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Learning OER Digital Learning Analysis 300

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2019

A schoolwide version is available with additional data analysis, customized content integration and professional development workshops. A basic, free version of the platform allows teachers to build a limited number of lessons. Educators can pay $9 a month for unlimited student grouping and unlimited lessons.

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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?” OER often shine in their variety and ability to deepen resources for niche topics. ” The article poses three questions and answers them. Below I share some thoughts prompted by the article.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 30, 2017

In a recent webinar about OER, organized by one of the major textbook publishers, there was a lot of conversation about whether OER are “free” or “affordable.” Before I begin though, just to be clear, allow me to reaffirm that OER are free, plain and simple, full stop, period. OER = free + permissions.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

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.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I think Michael Feldstein is directionally correct in his analysis of what has been happening to “open education” for the past several years. If you use OER and don’t see yourself in one of these groups, what problem are you trying to solve by using OER?). Without wading into the labeling fray (are we a movement? a coalition?

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2018

The biggest concern I have with the RISE framework really comes here: ‘The framework assumes that both OER content and assessment items have been explicitly aligned with learning outcomes, allowing designers or evaluators to connect OER to the specific assessments whose success they are designed to facilitate’….

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 19, 2015

For almost three years Lumen Learning has been helping faculty, departments, and entire degree programs adopt OER in place of expensive commercial textbooks. providing the learner with a unique set of learning experiences based on the system’s analysis of the student model. Our thinking about personalization started here.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Planning a Social Network Analysis. OER and Deeper Learning for the Next Generation Science Standards: Supporting deeper learning in NGSS through challenge-based projects and formative assessment tools. Check out the results of their work: Asset Mapping: A Guide for Education Innovation Clusters. Northern New Jersey. Philadelphia.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2019

With hundreds of software programs, OER resources, strategies, and programs permeating our curriculum, making sense of ‘what’s working for our students’ had blossomed into an administrative quandary. We started with a current state and needs assessment analysis. Taking control of the ‘why’.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). If you make it too expensive, colleges are going to look harder at OER,” she said.

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ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

I’ve already shared the work Mike Caulfield is doing with the Digital Polarization Initiative , as well as the analysis he has done (and continues to do ) on his blog. Now Mike has published an OER textbook, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers.

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Resources OER Social Media Exercises 89

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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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

On the other end of the spectrum is courseware that includes a collection of content and assessments tools from various vendors, open educational resources (OER), or homegrown efforts. This ROI analysis for courseware also will need to differentiate between the success of each of the three flavors of courseware noted above.

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Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills at OECD, warns that this analysis “should not be used as an ‘excuse’ not to use technology, but as a spur to finding a more effective approach”. OER Commons provides a database of free learning materials commonly used by teachers nationwide.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

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. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 1, 2019

One of these days, after I’ve retired, I’m going to write a radically restructured, OER-based freshman music theory course, based on research I did early in my career and what I’ve learned about good teaching since then.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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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. “ Curation.”

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Documents in more than 100 additional languages may be uploaded and used with all the analysis and Insight tools in Manual mode. Librarians might create grade- and curricular-relevant folders of highly engaging content, perhaps OER. Imagine the potential for librarians as supporters of literacy.

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Microsoft Education Assessment Data 77

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , “Digital Curriculum Development: The Missing Time-Saving Link,” Daniel Ralyea, Director of the Office of Research and Data Analysis at the South Carolina Department of Education, and Mark T. Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 54

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In addition, the number of schools and districts using OER continues to rise. Simba publishes newsletters and research reports that provide key decision-makers at more than 15,000 client companies around the globe with timely news, analysis, exclusive statistics and proprietary industry forecasts.

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Instructional Materials OER Student Data Privacy Industry 41

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Many quiet signs of OER. Aras Bozkurt helpfully created this social network analysis of Twitter discussion and influencers , on the fly, during the event itself, because he’s awesome that way: In short: the old conference walls are continuing to tumble down, brick by pixel. And Twitter! Things were on fire.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 3, 2016

This post focuses on privacy, but the general lesson - that bad markup gets in the way of good content - holds true in both the OER and the privacy space. In our research and analysis of privacy policies, we have seen the following issues repeated in many places; some of these issues are present on the sites of large companies.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Fallon official pointed a response by the company that argued that the EdReports analysis was flawed, and he said Pearson’s overall record in aligning its materials to the common core is “very good,” overall. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Clearly, the tensions he identifies require some analysis. We are now at the stage where at least 50% of academics have published in open access journals (Stats from Wiley), an there is a growth in Open Educational Resources including OER Commons , with many universities now providing free content.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. While students use traditional literary critique, a word cloud might provide a new analysis, such as a visual look at word frequency in a reading. Past… Beyond the Shine Series Articles.

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Technology Resources Examples Blended Learning 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. It’s now an LMS too.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

Doug Levin

MARCH 1, 2017

As compared to others, I am more likely to tag local/regional and state-specific news stories, in-depth policy analysis, open resources (OER, open source software tools, open data, open access, etc.), Today, I’m pleased to announce the return of the reading list feature to my site. Image credits.

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Trends EdTech OER Software 150

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

And they could be critical for baseline analysis of student skills and formative assessment. Argument Analysis : Students compare and evaluate two posts from a newspaper’s comment section. Homepage Analysis : Students identify advertisements on a news website. For more information. But wait, there’s more! .

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 25, 2018

Also on campus: sports analysis and training; campus tours. He described the challenges of integrating structural bioinformatics, network biology, and next generation sequencing analysis. Worse, any visualization needed to scale up to thousands or millions of nodes and edges, while being receptive to search and analysis.

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