Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2020

In this first bite-sized installment I’m going to address the major flaw in the OER definition provided as part of the recent UNESCO OER Recommendation. If traditional copyright protection prohibited no-cost access, libraries could not exist. The definition in the recommendation as set forth in Section I.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

That is until about five minutes into the session, when a hand in the audience went up asking, “Can you define what you mean by OERs?”. Define OERs. So I explained to my class that Open Educational Resources (OER) could be most easily defined as “free stuff on the Web.” Librarians are trained master curators.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Open educational resources have gone global and may help make learning more accessible, equitable and inclusive around the world. OER was one of six “emerging technologies and practices” the panelists highlighted as most likely to significantly influence postsecondary teaching and learning in the future. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

One popular draw to open educational resources is that these openly-licensed learning materials can—and are often encouraged to—be tailored for a particular professor or course. Communications librarian Kristen Hoffman oversees much of the OER work at Seattle Pacific University, a Christian university in Washington.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 27, 2019

UNESCO later decided to refer to open content intended to support research, teaching, and learning as “open educational resources.” Materials that were openly licensed and free were the OER we had spent the last decade advocating for. Other schools have OER policies and OER degree programs. green below).

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

We need strategies for personalizing and enriching the remote learning experience. And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. But, first, a little background: I’ve been playing around with building virtual school libraries for a very long time. website evolution. Valenza, J.K. TechLearning.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2019

There’s much to learn from history. How could the things we learned about educational radio possibly inform our work with education television? There are, of course, exceptional cases where people are doing genuinely novel and amazing things with the internet in support of student learning. Or teaching machines? Or computers?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2022

In May, the homework-help site that relies on student-generated content, Course Hero, dipped its toes into freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, course materials. This was the company’s “first foray” into OER, and it is still figuring out how the OER fits, Morris says. “I

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Although they would eventually change their model to focus on traditionally copyrighted textbooks, FWK’s over 100 openly licensed textbooks can still be found archived around the web in places like the Open Textbook Library and the Saylor Foundation’s website. Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model.

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Hapara

MARCH 17, 2022

and Mrs. Perkins, a fifth-grade teacher, browses the district’s library of content in H?para Her Student Dashboard Digital Backpack brings together everything she needs for learning, on any device. Mr. Stone locates openly licensed content found on OER Commons and uploads it within the Student Dashboard Digital Backpack.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2018

As open educational resources (OER) become a more viable option for K-12 school districts that want to adopt new resources, curating these “free” and “open” educational assets has become increasingly difficult. Here are five steps districts can use to implement OER in their LMSs: 1. With the U.S. Create a centralized “hub.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

As countless educators around the world have scrambled to figure out how to deliver lessons remotely with whisker-thin budgets, many turned to open education resources (OER). Her mission has been constant: Give students and teachers high-quality, free resources that can help each learn in their own way.

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More Verbs

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The Learning Through Technology Team at the Maine Department of Education is looking for a high energy, entrepreneurial-thinking, collaborative educator who would like to work with us. We currently have one opening for a Regional Education Representative: Digital Learning Specialist (and anticipate two more in the coming months).

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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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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 6, 2019

And what does it look like when the librarian, armed with a rich OER toolkit, regularly curates urgently needed, high-quality, flexible, no- or low-cost digital tools and content across the curriculum, expertly modeling that practice for the entire learning community?

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Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Types of OER you can develop for K-12. Project outlines like this school wide project-based learning outline.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 30, 2018

Today I’m going to focus on ISKME and OER Commons. From their website: ISKME’s OER initiatives aim to grow a sustainable culture of sharing and continuous improvement among educators at all levels. In addition to their widely used OER search and discovery service, ISKME provides a range of other services.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 20, 2015

And as the copyright holders we are free to openly license our explanations, thereby creating OER alternatives to the All Rights Reserved explanations published and controlled by commercial publishers. Asking this question can lead directly to a fruitful collaboration with your campus library.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

One crucial part of the decision is out of the students’ hands, of course, since it is the professor who decides what textbook or material to assign—or whether to skip commercial textbooks altogether and assign a free or low-cost open educational resource, or OER. I try to just rent them for the semester,” she says. a semester.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

K-12 schools and districts are turning to digital textbooks for in-person, hybrid and remote learning. Teachers may also customize digital textbooks to create a personalized learning experience. Some websites are dedicated to K-12 learning, while others feature textbooks for all learning levels or high school and college.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Open Education Resources (OER) Commons is a platform that provides open access to a wide variety of open educational resources that are either in the public domain or are licensed under Creative.read more

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In the second eye-raising deal for the higher-ed publishing industry in as many weeks, Wiley, a major textbook publisher, has agreed to acquire the assets of Knewton, a provider of digital courseware and adaptive-learning technologies. Knewton’s Alta, by contrast, is tapping into openly-licensed, or OER, materials.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In addition to its library of resources, Tailor-ED allows educators to group students by indicators including proficiency, confidence in the material and their motivation. After each lesson, students complete exit ticket assessments for subject mastery and social-emotional learning indicators.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

As such, states can expect to support a great variety of approaches to educational technology in their districts under the program, from those that spend some smaller portion of funds on activities to fill in the gaps in local efforts to those that devote the maximum allowable funds to ambitious personalized learning implementations.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 14, 2016

In case you didn’t see it elsewhere, I’m republishing the press release from Achieving the Dream about the incredibly exciting OER Degrees work that launched today. The effort is intended to spark more rapid adoption of OER within higher education, beginning with community colleges. It’s really happening!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 1, 2017

OER Commons, Open Textbook Library, MERLOT, TextBookGo, Bookboon.etc).read July 1, 2017 A couple of months ago we shared a collection of some of the best websites that offer open digital textbooks (e.g. read more.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 14, 2015

When students who can’t afford their textbooks have to borrow them from friends or check them out from the library, they’re likely receiving an insufficient dose or duration of use. When students without friends in class or time to get to the library try to get by without using textbooks at all, they’re receiving no dose whatsoever.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. You will discover a wide variety of materials including readings, OER (Open Education Resources), primary documents, textbooks, lessons, activities, interactives, videos, audios, and some great blog readings.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

And even before the management change, the company had quietly started building a huge library of courses bolted to its adaptive engine. The secret to its swift entry into publishing was OER (open education resources). Knewton’s pitch is that its mix of OER and an adaptive-learning system will set it apart.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Today, OpenStax—part tech startup, part publishing house, part cognitive science research lab—has a library of three dozen titles. And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. colleges use at least one.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2020

Here is a closer look at Follett’s company-wide eLearning resources that are being made available at libraries, schools and universities in communities across North America affected by the COVID-19 virus: Follett School Solutions (PreK-12). Free access to OER courseware. Visit the site to learn more and take advantage of this offer.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2023

When they want to investigate concepts related to what they’re learning in school further, the site is an easy place to point them. “I But all this raises the question: Isn’t that something libraries do? Bir’s site may have attracted so many users because traditional library resources aren’t on the top of people’s minds.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

Well, I’ve spotted some tools and strategies that have amazing potential to empower students and teachers to engage and learn more with the world beyond their school. Another student could find photographs of places or inventions he wants to study and then create augmented reality-triggered videos of himself explaining what he’s learned.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

This is not to say that the mobile medium provides a better learning experience ; however, students' work schedules often prohibit them from dedicated time in front of a stationary computer. Most importantly, OER need to be compatible with both the campus LMS and as independent resources that can be shared through a mobile message.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

John Unsworth , dean of libraries and professor of English at the University of Virginia, who led the panel, put the total in perspective. The Global Medieval Sourcebook at Stanford University is bringing an expansive, OER mentality to the medieval canon, making reliable texts available for classroom use.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Learning Reviews Science – More than 500 free interactive science websites and apps. NSDL – The National Science Digital Library has some outstanding resources that include numerous links to some great STEM programs and organizations. Learn Genetics – Visit this site from the University of Utah.

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