Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At OpenEd18 I gave a presentation titled “Questioning the OER Orthodoxy: Is the Commons the Right Metaphor for our Work?” In the presentation I made the point that metaphors are extraordinarily powerful. After this brief discussion, I asked “what if the commons is the wrong metaphor for our work with OER?”

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

David Wiley, a pioneer of open education resources who co-founded Lumen Learning , a for-profit company that supports OER efforts, sees one place where textbooks could actually be vanquished by openly licensed alternatives: community colleges. I think that the biggest barrier is just that people don’t know that OER exists.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In response, open educational materials, or OER, have emerged as an alternative to expensive textbooks that disproportionately affect low-income students. And it’s also a problem the way the materials are presented—the format that they’re in, what kind of mode they’re in… Is it text? What open education is saying though, is “yes, and.”

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In traditional science classrooms, students are often presented with facts and definitions to memorize, or they are asked to follow a predetermined set of instructions to complete a lab activity. However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best.

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 20, 2018

At the OpenEd Conference in 2013, Nicole Allen and I challenged the OER community to save students one billion dollars. Below I present the results of some exploratory data analysis intended to answer basic questions. The overall average price for all OER (both OER Only and OER Hybrid) is $17.32. OER Hybrid.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2019

Among other things, the post discusses her role in my decision to abandon the phrase “open pedagogy” and adopt the phrase “OER-enabled pedagogy.” So when people tell the story of how the term “OER-enabled pedagogy” came to be they should absolutely include Maha in it.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The inclusive access model’s goal of reducing the cost of textbooks apparently reminded the article’s author of OER, because she includes some discussion of OER toward the end of the article. And obviously, both inclusive access and OER are about solving the cost problem. Can you see it? A distraction.

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K12 Open Ed

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

A few us have been pondering the question “ How can we best advance the adoption of OER in K-12? There is currently a good amount of high quality, standards-aligned OER in K-12 with lots more coming online. With regards to OER, many states have approved, recommended, and/or endorsed the use of OER.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 27, 2016

Vicki Davis organized the panel to answer each topic quickly as short mini presentations which made the hour go by quickly.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We have a similar problem in the open educational resources (OER) space. Many people are in the habit of referring to OER as a commons. OER are not like the shared resources at the center of traditional commons. However, OER are not CPRs. This principle fails to apply to OER in multiple ways. We could go on.

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This is the middle section of my September 19, 2024 presentation, Why Open Education Will Become Generative AI Education. I’m pre-posting some of the presentation content due to the very active conversation the announcement of the presentation has created.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 16, 2020

Despite my best efforts, I spent much of the recent holiday break thinking about the eviscerated definition of OER in the final version of the UNESCO OER Recommendation. As I fretted about the holes in the final language and the size of the various trucks you could drive through them, I also reflected on the 5Rs.

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Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? Because these resources are open to use, when you share an OER, other educators across the globe can access it and use it in their classrooms. Types of OER you can develop for K-12. Slideshow presentations like this Utah social studies presentation.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. To answer this question, I have to examine my own experience with OER and its advocates. To me, using OER felt like a no-brainer. Many working in open education praised me for being so involved in the movement as an educator dealing with OER on the ground.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

Present level of academic progress Understanding where students are academically is a first step to making sure that work is neither overwhelmingly challenging nor so remedial that it underestimates their capabilities. Let’s break down three key components of an IEP.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

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. Create a clear design guide. We developed a Design Guide for students to follow.

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K12 Open Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

I have written before about the connections between OER and open practice and why I think open practice should be the goal, not merely the adoption of OER. While I hope and believe that OER can pave the way for open practice, it is not at all obvious that the use of OER is a necessary condition. The answer is scale.

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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 thought it was just as helpful as any other textbook.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Most faculty still seemed convinced the world would end if they shared their course materials, but the more coherent presentation of open content as “the collection of materials used to support a course,” together with the power of MIT’s brand, helped people begin to catch the vision of what was possible with open content.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” The questions from the article are presented in bold ; unattributed blockquotes are from the original article.). OER often shine in their variety and ability to deepen resources for niche topics.

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This is the opening section of my September 19, 2024 presentation, Why Open Education Will Become Generative AI Education. I’m pre-posting some of the presentation content due to the very active conversation the announcement of the presentation has created. Public access to the internet had just started to scale.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 10, 2020

Last year I created an un-styled, (hopefully) easy-to-reuse slide deck about Creative Commons, the 5Rs, and OER. One of my main goals in making this presentation was to give people a simple way to accurately understand them. Now, this is the exact opposite of the point that I make when I give this presentation.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

The close proximity of the two deals presents “an interesting juxtaposition ,and two different worldviews in which publishing companies can go,” says Paul Freedman, CEO of Entangled Group. Knewton’s Alta, by contrast, is tapping into openly-licensed, or OER, materials. Both approaches, he believes, could mean lower costs for students.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

s of workshops and presentations. 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. Presently there are textbooks for US History, Ancient History, and World History.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. That could be a problem."

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

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. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

If not, it’s probably because a definition of open like “free plus permissions” simply asserts that things must be free in order to qualify as OER. OER are free because you have permission to make as many copies as you like. In the meantime, enjoy this classic post from 2012 – 2017: RIP, OER?

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. para, where he explains how PBL and OER go hand-in-hand. . What are Open Educational Resources (OER)? These issues have brought OER back to the forefront of educational needs. .

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. That could be a problem."

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Your school or district can also use digital textbooks that are part of open educational resource (OER) repositories. There are several high-quality OER sites that feature digital textbooks for K-12. Digital textbooks don’t present the same problem. You can save money to use in other high-need learning areas.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

BBookX uses artificial intelligence to create OER texts for professors to use in their courses instead of traditional textbooks. BBookX When Sparrow plans her courses, she says she thinks about the “depth and breath” of the materials she’s going to cover. Artificial intelligence can play a role in that, too.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

While opportunities to advance technology-enabled or -enhanced school reform and improvement efforts appear throughout ESSA (and are in no way precluded as a strategy anywhere in the bill), it is Title IV that presents the most direct opportunity for state leadership.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 19, 2015

For almost three years Lumen Learning has been helping faculty, departments, and entire degree programs adopt OER in place of expensive commercial textbooks. Or, more correctly, people. It’s About People.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning. His meaning-making challenge presents three different options for demonstrating and further exploring our learning. I’ve ordered your book as well. We don’t have to be enrolled in his class to access it.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

One student could incorporate guided virtual reality into a presentation or lesson she shares with their classmates about a historical site. High Hope #4: Cleanly Curated Open Education Resources In order for high quality OERs to be combined with high quality instructional design, teachers need tools that allow them to curate the resources.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 26, 2016

This post is based on a presentation Suzan and Maha gave this year at the OER16 conference in Edinburgh. When we look at common definitions of Open Educational Resources or OERs (e.g., When we look at common definitions of Open Educational Resources or OERs (e.g., You can read it here ! Slideshare available here.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

Keys to the OER shift: – Community buy-in: The community wasn’t satisfied with the achievement levels and graduation rates. – Vetted OER materials: For every subject, K-12 teachers have a stockbook of vetted OER lessons. About the Presenters. The post Navigating the Shift to OER appeared first on edWeb.

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