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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Differentiated Instruction OER Resources Hapara 147

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. And for those of you who expect every post on this blog to be related to OER in some way (you did notice I changed the name of the blog, right?), Then ask me ten technical questions.

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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 It really is a time saver for me,” says Rouse, who’s taught for about 13 years.

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OER Exercises Analysis Groups 113

Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Large OER publishers like OpenStax, Lumen, and CMU OLI spend a significant amount of time and money creating open content. These OER are significantly more affordable than the proprietary alternatives and, because of their open licensing, can serve as the foundation for a wide range of innovations in teaching and learning.

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Meeting OER Education Pearson 148

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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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

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 24, 2025

The TPACK Framework There are a range of organizational structures you could impose on this thought exercise. But today I want to focus on which specific skills and knowledge I believe generative AI models need in order to be effective teachers.

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Training OER Blackboard Strategy 88

Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 12, 2022

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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Learning OER Exercises Student Engagement 146

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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OER Outcomes Assessment Analysis 100

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The system can also recommend follow-up activities and exercises specific to areas where a student may struggle. Open Up Resources traces its history to 2013, when 13 states banded together to form the K-12 OER Collaborative to build low-cost, high-quality and openly-licensed instructional materials.

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Resources OER Academic Standards Instructional Materials 111

Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. It offers a range of writing exercises specifically written for high school. To help you begin, we’ve gathered digital textbooks across subjects and grade levels—all are openly-licensed and free-to-use.

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How To Classroom Common Core Hapara 130

ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Now Mike has published an OER textbook, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers. It might be an interesting exercise to do with a class to “finish” one of the unfinished articles or come up with a suggested assignment or example. Will you be using this book or recommending it to your campus community?

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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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OER Software Exercises Video 60

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. You might even argue that many popular OER work very hard to closely replicate proprietary textbooks. There’s a really terrific conversation happening on the cc-openedu listserv.

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Coursera OER LMS Software 123

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Find standards-aligned content and assign practice exercises, videos and articles. CanFigureIt – Created by teachers, this highly interactive tool provides an easy-to-use work space where students can practice proofs while exercising their deductive reasoning muscles. Once you visit be prepared to stay awhile.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

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 have adopted OER instead of a commercial textbook for my class.

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OER Exercises LMS Course 60

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 23, 2020

These include any learning exercises, technology-enabled experiences (e.g., Assessments from a wide range of commercial publishers and OER providers inevitably end up on cheating websites where students share questions and answers with one another. simulations), and adaptive support and assessment tools.”.

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Assessment LMS Exercises Outcomes 114

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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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

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. They had to rewrite their statistics lab exercises so that Bazaar’s computer agent can prompt groups of students with appropriate questions and directions.

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MOOC Dropout Exercises OER 60

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It would be an interesting thought exercise to re-examine the traditional seven virtues (prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, and charity) and decide what each of their edtech replacements would be. Open Educational Resources (OER) are one way in which technology allows us to be more generous.

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Technology Education EdTech OER 72

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). CC licenses are the legal tools that help you discover, share, remix, and build upon educational resources, which is what makes them open educational resources, or OER.

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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). CC licenses are the legal tools that help you discover, share, remix, and build upon educational resources, which is what makes them open educational resources, or OER.

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OER Handbook Examples Social Media 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

Instead of having good interrelations with other people because good interrelations are fulfilling and produce good outcomes, your good interrelations exist as a formal exercise that you engage in for fear of reprisals. I wanted to ask you about OERs. We want intrinsically motivated students, but extrinsic motivation is powerful.

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Education Exercises OER Meeting 77

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Teachers can flip their classroom by using Google Forms to learn about ratios and proportions using Khan Academy videos and exercises. The platform gives teachers and administrators the flexibility to mix and match content from a growing number of open educational resources (OER), to digitize existing content, or to build their own.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

However, most people remain unaware of OER. They initially considered MOOCS, but after holding a design thinking exercise, and interviewing teachers around the world, they saw other issues cropping up: time constraints, language barriers, leadership support, infrastructure limitations, and the heterogeneous variety of students.

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Trends MOOC Coursera Education 42

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The service can distribute open educational resources, or OER, textbooks that are available to professors and students for free. If I have a choice between three sections of a course, and one has OER and one has a $200 or $300 textbook, I want to know that because that’s a factor in my choice.”

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OER Chegg Course Exercises 165

Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Open Educational Resources (OER) Products – OER course products are developed based on open resources and utilize instructional design and professional services. Interactive Textbooks – These are electronic textbooks or eBooks that come with various interactive features to enhance learning and knowledge retention.

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eBook Gamification Education OER 98

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 28, 2015

” Fearful of an aggressive faculty culture, university leadership creates empty exercises that make people feel that they are being consulted while at the same time asserting authority over the future direction of the institution.(3879). Plans have an additional problem, which is that they don’t address competition.

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