Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Recently I’ve been doing both more thinking and more roll-up-your-sleeves working on continuous improvement of OER. And this process of making OER more effective every semester – also known as “continuous improvement” – is where we see some of the most exciting opportunities to collaborate with faculty.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 23, 2018

By definition, open educational resources (OER) are licensed in a manner that gives you permission to change, update, and improve them. Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design.

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 215

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. OER and open books. Learning analytics. Adaptive learning systems. Two that shine are OER/open books and learning analytics. Digital badges. underwhelming.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 106

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2017

She’s just made the jump from provost to a senior academic innovation fellow, tasked with looking to big new ideas in learning and experimental efforts in both teaching and student success. The rub with OER, though, is that some people feel these free materials aren’t as good as published textbooks. This was huge. We went big.

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OER Course Learning Analytics Company 109

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. Those resources are increasingly delivered in digital form. If it doesn’t, it won’t, and it won’t deserve to.

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Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 14, 2017

And now for something completely different… I’m taking a pause from talking directly about open for a moment to share some resources I’ve recently found that have made my data life much more efficient and enjoyable. This image from the BBC is not subject to opencontent.org’s Creative Commons license.

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