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OER Had Its Breakthrough in 2017. Next Year, It Will Become an Essential Teaching Tool

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Open educational resources (OER) have long been touted as “the next big thing” in higher education, but the drawn-out hype has led many educators and administrators to wonder if it would ever live up to its expectations. Those days are over: 2017 was OER’s breakthrough year. That happened in 2017. Ohio University is doing the same.

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Everything Old is New Again: Textbooks, The Printing Press, The Internet, and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

It’s a useful exercise to ask ourselves: what are the unique affordances of the internet – how do they differ from the affordances of the printing press – and what potential synergies are there between these new affordances and what research has established about effective teaching and learning? Everything Old is New… Again.

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Using open educational resources to empower differentiated instruction

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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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Tailor-ED Raises $1.6 Million to Bring Differentiated OER to More Students

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Not everything she found was useful or reliable, as is the case for most web searches, so she took time to vet each exercise. Now, Rouse no longer needs to search for exercises outside of work. “It After each lesson, students complete exit ticket assessments for subject mastery and social-emotional learning indicators.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

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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RISE and Instructional Design

Iterating Toward Openness

T]he bigger concern with the way grades are addressed in the RISE framework is that they are plotting assessment scores instead of individual item scores. Actually, we’re using neither individual items nor the entire assessment score. Not just the OER itself, but the chapter and page number…. [I]f

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Why Improving Student Learning is So Hard

Iterating Toward Openness

Faculty exercise this influence in two ways: through the specific activities they assign students to do, and through the ways they support them as they engage in those activities. Students learn by doing – by playing, interacting, manipulating, reading, watching, listening, reflecting, arguing, summarizing, etc.

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