Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

These versions allow learners to digitally highlight, take notes, bookmark, watch videos and use quick search tools. OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). While their library contains several different types of materials, it is also a source for digital textbooks.

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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. 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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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Especially important is a strategy to align digital learning plans to participation in the E-rate program and any state programs designed to meet similar ends (including those beyond K-12 education that support broadband build out to universities, hospitals, libraries, or public safety institutions).

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Strategy EdTech Broadband E-rate 231

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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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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Libraries OER Case Study Robotics 154

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. In these deals, colleges order published materials in bulk, then charge students a per-course fee that grants them access to all of the required texts and tools.

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Course OER Pearson Survey 163

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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Knewton Strategy OER Pearson 133

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. So this year, I’m sharing my high hopes for how some of the new powerful tools out there could be used in your school or classroom. Where we are: Since the U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

After three years of utilizing a BYOD (bring your own device) policy with my classes at Nassau Community College, I have seen how tools like tablets and laptops can lead to better academic engagement. 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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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 104

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

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. Finding the right tool to match the verb can take a bit of research. This wonderful OER makes it easy for teachers to assemble their own textbooks.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. I was proud to be there to share along with some serious library power: AASL President Leslie Preddy, Mark Ray (WA) Washington, Jennifer Boudrye (D.C.) Some OER background: Launched in October, GoOpen is a U.S. What are OER?

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The goal of the Openly Available Sources Integrated Search is to facilitate the discovery of OER. OASIS also is the only tool that allows users to limit searches by creative commons licenses or by faculty review. Course Materials. Interactive Simulations. Public Domain Books. Audiobooks. Open Access Books. Learning Objects.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites).

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Can online learning and digital tools help learners save money? Faculty and administrators at #DLNchat repeatedly shared about successfully saving students money through the use of OER. Some proposed furthering real savings through virtual solutions, such as VR labs and libraries.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 5, 2018

We maintain the Open Textbook Library , the premiere resource for peer-reviewed academic textbooks. They estimate that OER adoptions on their 600 member campuses have saved students over $8.5 45% of faculty who attend one of these workshops adopt OER for their course. OTN is a membership organization. million dollars.

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OER Case Study Libraries Study 74

Hapara

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Engaging features and tools for learners. Many digital textbooks include embedded features and tools that help students connect to the content and focus on what they’re learning. You can find these digital textbooks on open educational resource (OER) sites. A tool such as H?para With a tool like H?para

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Hapara OER Online Assessments Differentiated Instruction 130

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

In three years as an investor at Reach Capital, an edtech venture fund, I’ve watched public, private and philanthropic dollars pour into school operations, adaptive software, data analytics, teacher development, and teacher tools in worthy attempts to improve education. More filler than fire-starter. Quantity over quality.

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EdTech OER Industry Study 125

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 21, 2016

The CommonLit library of more than 440 readings may be browsed or searched by keyword and filtered by such criteria as: recent additions, Lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device demonstrated, and Common Core Reading: Literature standards. CommonLit on Twitter. Commonlit.org | Facebook.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2020

These are available in our resource library in PDF and ready to print. These are available digitally and print-based (on our resource library). K-2 formative tasks Designed for grades K-2, these formative tasks demonstrate a variety of ways to teach and implement key standards in English language arts/literacy and mathematics.

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Assessment Strategy OER Libraries 69

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The reality, she adds, is that every district prefers to use different tools—digital or otherwise. The platform also offers a library of supplemental resources from third-party providers. Planning lessons, teaching, testing and analyzing results often involve different tools and processes that teachers stitch together.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2018

As the title of the document makes explicit, the framework aims to contribute to the conversation about the sustainability of OER: “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship” It’s a valuable contribution to that conversation. I struggle to see how this will be possible.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. Luckily, there are tools available to make distribution seamless and equitable across your school or district. You can use these digital textbooks in your lessons and units or throughout the school year.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

Our own Kristina Holzweiss shared the Wakelet on Wakelet she co-presented, as well as her blog post on library uses of the platform. I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. 10 reasons to use the library.

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Social Media Libraries Conference OER 105

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Geogebra – Get this free online math tools for graphing, geometry, 3D, and more! MIT Blossoms – All of the lessons in the MIT Blossoms library have been contributed by BLOSSOMS partners from around the world. Students find that math is a tool to explore the world around us. You will find all kinds of ideas and lessons.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Students can access more than 20,000 course materials— courseware, eBooks, online homework and study tools, across more than 70 disciplines and 675 courses. If educational institutes start adopting OERs in classrooms, students will be able to save a lot of money that would otherwise be spent on purchasing textbooks and rental subscriptions.

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Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What a wonderful place for educators to find quality teaching tools, interactive, podcasts, and hands-on activities, and best of all… it’s free! NSDL – The National Science Digital Library has some outstanding resources that include numerous links to some great STEM programs and organizations. Check out all the science areas.

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STEM Resources Learning Conference 162

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 2, 2018

Created in 2006 by a team led by Aaron Swartz and Brewster Kahle, Open Library is an Internet Archive project developed to present one web page for every book ever published. Open Library now also offers a full-text search of its collection of Internet Archive’s more than 4 million books. Full-text search.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Intellus Learning , an educational platform as a service company, have partnered to provide academic libraries with a content curation, assignment, recommendation and analytics tool.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Each of the five startups focuses on technology innovation in higher education, with products that range from student coaching tools to a talent recruiting platform. Here are the five companies in the 2016 cohort: Lrnr : An adaptive-learning platform that uses open educational resources (OER). They hold those two things equally sacred.”

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

10 Free Learning Websites for Kids 51 Great Tools for educators and students to use [link] Richland School District Two 1TWO1 Digital Starter Kit [link] Excellent collection of web apps, sorted by category, with lots of information and ideas for using the web apps in class. You can also share your clipboards via different social networks.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We hope you'll consider joining our first Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, March 13th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). (We Please also join the Library 2.0

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The tool not only helps emerging readers build confidence, independence and fluency, it offers teachers powerful formative assessment data and tools to analyze student progress without compromising valuable instructional time. Librarians might create grade- and curricular-relevant folders of highly engaging content, perhaps OER.

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Microsoft Education Assessment Data 77

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

One new category of tool schools are experimenting with is. These digital tools help students master course learning goals by using data generated from students’ interactions with the adaptive software to predict what students should view or do next online. Tell me how the tool works. adaptive technology.

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Learning OER Software Course 60

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Just in time for instructional planning, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) reminds us that their 100 Primary Source Sets were designed to help students develop critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature, and culture.

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