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Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. If not, why not?
While opportunities to advance technology-enabled or -enhanced school reform and improvement efforts appear throughout ESSA (and are in no way precluded as a strategy anywhere in the bill), it is Title IV that presents the most direct opportunity for state leadership.
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. Slideshow presentations like this Utah social studies presentation.
Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. If not, why not?
At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. But it was clear to our little group, that to the larger majority of the participants, we were not even on the OER radar. Some OER background: Launched in October, GoOpen is a U.S. What are OER? and Mary Reiman (NE).
First, student learning, which is restricted by our present system, may gain a freedom heretofore unseen, networked through technology for access to unprecedented amounts of both knowledge and community. Confusion about quality and actual rigor are added by the OER preferential language of both the federal government and the states.
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.
that is seeing content multiply at an expositional rate, it is also important to help students become seekers of knowledge and lifetime self-learners. OER Commons – A great place for open and free content aligned to the standards. E is for Endless Inquiry. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.
Mountain Heights Academy in Utah, the 2017 Student Voices Award winner, encourages students to participate in the instructional design process using an OER curriculum. Since the majority of their lessons and assignments are open educational resources (OER) they wanted to license their Operation Bee curriculum as OER.
One present problem is that faculty see low quality digital and/or open education materials, and that the rise in quantity doesn’t necessarily lead to improved quality. Community colleges are much more interested in OER than other sectors. Possiblye the FCC will extend E-rate funding to poorer areas.
Many times, the funding is not enough, and schools supplement from outside sources, including the E-Rate program. There are no cap limits, no throttle rates, and no chastising schools when they need extra bandwidth. About the Presenters. Schools feel free to approach CEN when they need more bandwidth.
If you haven''t been a volunteer moderator before, there''s nothing quite like the camaraderie and the excitement that develops jumping in and out of session rooms and helping presenters and participants have a great experience.
Often open access journals provide online forums for discussion of the articles presented. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Online open access journals trump paper based journals every time in terms of amplification of ideas too. This kind of dialogue is invaluable both for the readers and authors. Unported License.
At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. Interactive Whiteboards.
“New report calls out NCAA for saying that black athletes graduate at higher rates than other black students, when that’s not true at the top conferences,” says Inside Higher Ed. Lisa Petrides, Douglas Levin, and Eddie Watson introduce The CARE Framework for OER. ” Go, School Sports Team! Memos from HR.
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