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How to Crowdsource Quality Resources for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

We at Designers for Learning responded to this call by inviting instructional designers, developers, and adult educators to join a crowdsourcing effort to develop free open educational resources (OER) for adults with low math and literacy skills. The four key factors: Use a real-world instructional design challenge. Introduce open licensing.

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If We Talked About the Internet Like We Talk About OER: The Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

“The print model is really a broken business model for us,” he said, adding, “we’re thinking about how to move away from print, and move towards digital” … Publishers can offer discounts of up to around 70 percent with inclusive access because their customer share is increasing, explained Peyton. Can you see it?

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New Resource on Open Access, Pedagogy, Learning

ProfHacker

There are chapters that argue for the quality of OER resources, for the utility of Open Pedagogy, and for the transformational potential of these approaches and resources. There are also “how to” guides describing how scholars and educators implemented their approach to open in their particular setting.

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Online Classes Get a Missing Piece: Teamwork

Edsurge

“Often in online courses students disappear and drop,” says Barbara Illowsky, dean of basic skills and online educational resources (OER) and a professor of mathematics and statistics at De Anza College in Cupertino, California. MOOCs get social. During the three-week course, they collaborated to design a superhero story together.

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An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015

TeachThought - Learn better.

TESS101x: Enhancing Teacher Education Through OER. Locating, Creating, Licensing and Utilizing OERs. IOC Athlete MOOC via Independent. College Readiness Math MOOC. iTDI Summer School MOOC For English Teachers. Learn How to Play Chess. Get Organized: How to be a Together Teacher. via CourseSites.

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

Edsurge

In a panel discussion moderated by Mark Phillips (CEO at HireEducation), Graham Forman (Founder of Ednovate) and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge (Portfolio Services Director at Kapor Capital) will talk about the challenges of obtaining funding, and how to overcome those obstacles to get your business started. Higher Ed 12:30 p.m. 11:00 a.m.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

Community colleges are much more interested in OER than other sectors. The question Casey asks is, how to get more value out of the LMS? How to grow its functionality? How to avoid suffering from “semantic remorse”? For example, MOOCs are still weak on completion and learning, but evolving.

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