Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Student: I’ll study whether students learn better with OER than with traditional course materials! At this point I would pull a random book down from my shelf and open to the copyright statement near the front of the book. Student: (questioningly) Because you didn’t change the instructional design of the book in any way?

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 23, 2020

I wanted to include a reading summarizing my current thinking on ‘evaluating the impact of OER’ in the course, so I’m letting some thoughts spill out below. In the past I’ve written frequently about how we evaluate the impact of OER use. and more OER impact research should follow that lead. versus 2.6).

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

I’m wondering if you might recommend what top three books would you suggest I read outside of ‘Urgency for Teachers,’ ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed,’ ‘The New Education?’ I’ve ordered your book as well. Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

But fans of OER are increasingly facing a problem. While OER started off as free online textbooks, it still costs money to produce these materials, and professors often need guidance finding which ones are high quality. So OER advocates are realizing they need to change their pitch.

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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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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. You would be prohibited from having no-cost access to books under standard copyright protection. The definition in the recommendation as set forth in Section I.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

And it cost each student $100, a price they couldn’t avoid by purchasing a used copy, since the book was designed to be written in. “It But OER advocates think open access course materials hold another kind of promise for students, too. They can with OER materials. It was out of date. It was not good at all,” Hardy says. “I

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

OER was one of six “emerging technologies and practices” the panelists highlighted as most likely to significantly influence postsecondary teaching and learning in the future. “It It is moving up the adoption ladder,” says Susan Grajek, vice president of communities and research for Educause, of OER. “It In the U.S.,

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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

AUGUST 13, 2019

I hope you’re aware of and looking forward to her upcoming book on Teaching Machines.) Citations below are from this book. Goclenius thus tacitly acknowledges the messiness and incoherence of his own book, no doubt produced in haste from his teaching notes.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 27, 2019

As the movement grew and more people began advocating for the adoption of OER in place of traditionally copyrighted materials in classes, some advocates chose to make cost the primary focus of their advocacy. Materials that were openly licensed and free were the OER we had spent the last decade advocating for. green below).

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here’s a hint: they’ve produced more than double the number of books created by the next largest producer. There would be huge benefits to the OER ecosystem if we made similar arguments with commercial publishers, helping them understand why switching to an OER model would be good for their business.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

What if faculty of color were engaged in the process of creating books tailored to their classes? The funds will cover financial support and mentorship for faculty who create new open educational resources (OER for short) or adapt existing open textbooks. Like: What would happen if students had access to a catalog of free and?this

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2022

In May, the homework-help site that relies on student-generated content, Course Hero, dipped its toes into freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, course materials. This was the company’s “first foray” into OER, and it is still figuring out how the OER fits, Morris says. “I

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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). Khosla is the founder and CEO of CK-12 , the 30-person nonprofit that she started in 2007 to deliver free digital books, particularly on math and science topics.

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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. This principle fails to apply to OER in multiple ways. Ostrom’s 8.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

There are many changes I intend to make, but the most significant will be creating a book that is more “evergreen,” a book with less focus on tools and more on the dispositions of digital leaders. Society is now in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , which was in its infancy as I began writing this book.

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Hapara

MARCH 17, 2022

Mr. Stone locates openly licensed content found on OER Commons and uploads it within the Student Dashboard Digital Backpack. the principal at Jasmine’s high school receives a worrisome email from a parent who thinks the school is utilizing a book with controversial content. Looking to get started with a similar OER initiative?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Each mission in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom , shares an example of the Mission in Action by a teacher I admire. André is a #DigitalLeadLearner, using web media and iPads in the classroom, an OER maker and a founder of the German Twitter chat, #EDchatDE.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

If I feel that one book will save my life this semester, I’ll break down and buy it,” she says. Gupta says she normally gets her reading materials from either Amazon or from a used book event at the end of the year, where students sell their books to students who’ll be taking the classes the next semester. I’m usually broke.”

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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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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. Why you should develop OER for K-12.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 8, 2018

Yesterday, Phil Hill wrote about OpenStax’s new method for calculating the savings students see when their faculty adopt OER. in savings for each student using an OpenStax book. Some percentage of students who are assigned an OpenStax book purchase a homework solution from a vendor who is an OpenStax Partner.

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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

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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K12 Open Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

I have written before about the connections between OER and open practice and why I think open practice should be the goal, not merely the adoption of OER. While I hope and believe that OER can pave the way for open practice, it is not at all obvious that the use of OER is a necessary condition. The answer is scale.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

He even wrote a book about the topic, called “ Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia.” I hear more often these days about teaching with free online materials instead of traditional textbooks (known as OER). The OER conversation is very energized right now, and it's a complex conversation. Absolutely. Absolutely.

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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 14, 2016

In case you didn’t see it elsewhere, I’m republishing the press release from Achieving the Dream about the incredibly exciting OER Degrees work that launched today. The effort is intended to spark more rapid adoption of OER within higher education, beginning with community colleges. It’s really happening!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Booking Info – Time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page… Please contact me soon if you have an interest. I am almost booked through August and am already taking fall dates for 2015 – Mike. OER Commons – What a wonderful place to find open educational resources. I have done 100?s

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks. These publisher platforms can have real benefits.

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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. Books built out of little Lego blocks, glued together so the digital photo student could have their perfect book and the music student could have their perfect book.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called 2017: RIP OER? , I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” ” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. This finding is echoed in research conducted by Barnes & Noble College, which runs more than 1,400 physical and virtual campus book stores in the U.S.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). Some shelves are geared specifically to K-12, such as K-12 mathematics or Wikijunior , which has nonfiction books for readers up to age 12. . You can also search for English or Spanish language versions. Schedule a demo today!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

OER and open books. Two that shine are OER/open books and learning analytics. OER and open books also help keep course materials more affordable for students. Whether a platform, an app, a portal, or a device—it’s all bits and bytes at the core. Learning analytics. Digital badges. Adaptive learning systems.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

The last time I heard Pink talk, it was in regards to his book “ A Whole New Mind “ At the time, it opened my my thought process to the importance of thinking and the right brain. Check out my Booking Page and please share and subscribe to this Blog. If you have never read the book… then give it a read now.

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