Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As I’ve been (re-)reading OER adoption research through a more critical lens I’m seeing a recurring pattern of significant threats to validity in the designs of studies purporting to measure the impact of OER adoption on student outcomes. Many research studies fail to address the way instructors end up using OER.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 5, 2023

My son tells me this exercise was incredibly helpful and he plans to do it several more times before having a “real” interview. I continue to try to imagine ways generative AI can impact teaching and learning, including learning materials like textbooks.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 12, 2022

Here are a few brief thoughts about why improving student learning is so hard to do. Improving student learning requires changing student behavior – changing the things students do in order to learn. Faculty can promote student learning only by influencing what students do.

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 13, 2024

These are many of the same issues that open education advocates have raised about proprietary textbooks and other proprietary learning materials for decades. Large OER publishers like OpenStax, Lumen, and CMU OLI spend a significant amount of time and money creating open content. Can I trust its responses to be accurate?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2019

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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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. For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. Now, make no mistake – OER is a means, not an end.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 20, 2015

When we exercise that right and explain an idea in our own words (and perhaps other media), we then hold the copyright to our explanations of those ideas. Whenever it is impossible to replace commercial materials with OER for these reasons, we find ourselves in a situation where commercial materials must be used in the course.

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OER Libraries Study Course 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Desmos – Their mission is to help every student learn math and love learning math. These projects promote cooperative learning, problem-solving and the use of technology. NZ Math – These rich learning Math ideas come from New Zealand. We accomplish that goal by building products and partnerships.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 24, 2025

Why, then, do we constantly act surprised when we select a random generative AI model, try to use it to support student learning, and find that it isnt particularly effective? The TPACK Framework There are a range of organizational structures you could impose on this thought exercise.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2018

On average, we’re looking at a group of four individual items per individual learning outcome. Not just the OER itself, but the chapter and page number…. [I]f My idea of a well-designed course involves self-determined learning, learner autonomy, and space for social interaction (for those that choose to do so).

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OER Outcomes Assessment Analysis 100

Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

Digital textbooks are cost-effective and create equitable, engaging and flexible learning experiences. They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. Second graders will learn about early India and China with this digital textbook. What’s not to love?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The system can also recommend follow-up activities and exercises specific to areas where a student may struggle. It was a pleasant surprise when she learned about the brewing partnership between the startup and the nonprofit. “We That’s why the partnership with Kiddom is important.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2021

It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. In terms of raw numbers, how many people who might be interested in learning Python can come up with $49? How many people who might be interested in learning Python can get the 100% open tool chain up and running?

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ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Now Mike has published an OER textbook, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers. The book itself is really, really practical, and I will admit (sheepishly) that I’ve learned a lot from it already. They need concrete strategies and tactics for tracing claims to sources and for analyzing the nature and reliability of those sources.

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Resources OER Social Media Exercises 89

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 18, 2017

Cengage recently announced a new offering called MindTap ACE that includes OER and is now available in pilot. The video clearly shows Cengage content listed for each topic, followed by some OER. MindTap ACE addresses this challenge by including OER alongside Cengage’s best-in-class content. Yes, you read that correctly.)

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 23, 2020

However, if the Department does act on these comments, the parts of the work that are open will be more widely adopted, will result in more students saving more money, and, most importantly, will result in more students learning more. These include any learning exercises, technology-enabled experiences (e.g.,

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

My negative liberty is maximized when there is nothing in the law, in society, or elsewhere outside of me that prevents me from exercising my agency in order to accomplish my desires. Say, for example, that I want all my students to have access to the learning materials for my course, forever.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

This fall, students taking introductory statistics courses at six colleges will pilot using a tool to complete lab exercises in teams, working in sync with partners who are miles away. After students complete a lesson, they can choose to enter an online chat group where they discuss and apply what they learned.

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MOOC Dropout Exercises OER 60

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The post 100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom – SULS033 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Here’s how Google describes it : “ The Chromebook App Hub , an online resource to help educators, administrators and developers work together to learn about Chromebook apps and activity ideas for schools. Yes, I did!

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Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Students learn to cite sources as part of educational and academic norms from a young age. Check out more exercises and courses like this at [link]. Used under a CC BY license.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Students learn to cite sources as part of educational and academic norms from a young age. Check out more exercises and courses like this at [link]. Used under a CC BY license.

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OER Handbook Examples Social Media 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

So, if you are a student whose school is completely reliant on surveillance tools to stop you from seeing genitals or whatever it is they're worried about, then anything you do to learn about how that system works and how to stop it ends running against the school's own core defense mechanism. I wanted to ask you about OERs.

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Education Exercises OER Meeting 71

Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

“We are in the learning century!” It’s about self-motivated learning. I asked how open learning works for non-professionals, citing research showing many MOOC users are already professionals and/or academics. But now a wider range of population participate in online learning, both as students and teachers.

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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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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Higher education is going through a massive transformation thanks to the adoption of new technologies like mobile learning , gamification and digital courseware. The transformation towards digital has been accelerated impacting all aspects of education including learning materials and content. The Growth of eBooks in Higher Education.

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