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and I am merely a fan – not a fanboy – of open educational resources (OER).** Others surely see me as some sort of OER fanatic. So, if these are the actions of someone who is an OER fan, what stops me short of claiming fanboy status? I work in K-12 education in the U.S., I beg to disagree. Image credits.
The most recent issue of IRRODL included an article titled Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance: A Case Study , by Juan I. This was justified by the fact that there is a lack of empirical evidence to support expanding the use of OER. Venegas-Muggli and Werner Westermann.
In 2012 Kim Thanos and I founded Lumen Learning because, through our Gates-funded work on the Kaleidoscope Project, we had seen first-hand how hard it was for faculty to replace publisher materials with OER. MIT OCW, Wikipedia, KhanAcademy), but in 2010 it was difficult to find a faculty member who had made the switch.
To hear some OER advocates describe it today in 2024, the same format that was being used in the late 2000s – traditional-looking textbooks published under open licenses – is the state of the art when it comes to open educational resources. OER have also been used as part of personalized, interactive courseware systems, too.
That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Resources: “Finding the Nouns or Facts” How might your identification of the curriculum standard nouns along with OER fit into a classroom ?
Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites).
Chromebook Idea Spark #3: Building Proportion Dolls Using G Suite, KhanAcademy and Screencastify. Teachers can flip their classroom by using Google Forms to learn about ratios and proportions using KhanAcademy videos and exercises. KhanAcademy Kids. Created by Patricia Garcia. Assess class performance.
KhanAcademy – Help every student succeed with personalized practice. Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core. OER Commons Math – This is a large collection of online resources that are part of the open education resource field.
Try accessing OER options like www.ck12.org, org, khanacademy, youtube, https://www.gutenberg.org and SAS Curriculum Pathways. Show them databases that your school has access to that will help them find quality information. Do you want more opportunities to consume reading and videos for learning?
YouTube playlists might be a good way to gather material from KhanAcademy or Crash Course or Flocabulary and mix them with locally grown instruction and a few provocative questions. OER and you: The curation mandate. OER: Issues, Possibilities and the Promise of Curation (with Brenda Boyer). Curation Situations Poster.
It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from KhanAcademy. Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “About That Cengage OER Survey.” .” “If free college required a dramatically higher adjunct percentage, should we do it?”
” Education Dive profiles KhanAcademy’s Khan Lab School. (It It will be interesting to compare the success or failure of Khan Lab School with the failure of AltSchool. The business of OER. Another story about harassment. Or the school below…). ” That’s the Portfolio School. .”
” Via IRRODL : “ KhanAcademy as Supplemental Instruction: A Controlled Study of a Computer-Based Mathematics Intervention.” million project to use open educational resources (OER) to create degree programs at 38 community colleges. .” The History of Pearson.
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. As Matt Barnum and Sarah Darville write in Chalkbeat , “The College Board’s research doesn’t show whether KhanAcademy truly caused the score increases.
The NAACP endorses OER. Via Edsurge : “ KhanAcademy ’s New ‘Teacher Aid’ Tool Goes for a Test Drive in Southern California.” .” (“What do we really know about the value of prekindergarten?” Davis on the DML Central blog. ” asks Donald Clark.
This Edsurge article – “ OER is Growing at Religious Colleges , But Raises Unique Challenges” – strikes me as a little weird, considering the long relationship between open education (the conference, at the very least) and former BYU professor David Wiley. What’s next?” And sure, why not.
“ KhanAcademy launches free Official LSAT Prep ,” says the KhanAcademy blog. “Some Thoughts on OER ” by Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. ” “So Long, SAT Essay. Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out” by John Warner. Labor and Management.
There have also been efforts to expand college degree programs that rely entirely on OER. “As a result of this program,” Lumen Learning’s David Wiley wrote , “by fall of 2017 somewhere between 3% and 4% of all community colleges in the US will have at least one all-OER degree program.” of courses use OER.
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