Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The funds will cover financial support and mentorship for faculty who create new open educational resources (OER for short) or adapt existing open textbooks. We’re trying to encourage a model of deliberately constructing or reconstructing OER to fit the needs of your learners and not necessarily just to create a textbook.”

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OER Outcomes Course Social Media 181

Hapara

JUNE 16, 2022

Open educational resources, also known as OER, provide a great way to supplement curriculum to differentiate instruction and better meet each learner’s needs in your classroom. This use case is the perfect example of when OER can come to the rescue. So what does that mean? What is differentiation? Addressing reading levels.

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Differentiated Instruction OER Resources Hapara 147

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning.

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OER Data Tools Trends 111

K12 Open Ed

APRIL 25, 2016

Several conversations lately have made me ponder the importance of community understanding and support for various new initiatives like open learning and OER adoption. This relates to OER as well. OER, and even more so open learning, look different in the classroom.

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OER Common Core Trends Outcomes 100

Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Large OER publishers like OpenStax, Lumen, and CMU OLI spend a significant amount of time and money creating open content. These OER are significantly more affordable than the proprietary alternatives and, because of their open licensing, can serve as the foundation for a wide range of innovations in teaching and learning.

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Meeting OER Education Pearson 148

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

The six-week long MOOC will touch on topics including open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy and practice, open knowledge and open research. Siemens: It seemed like a good opportunity to expand the audience and get a message out about the importance and history of openness, and where things might be trending. And, why now?

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MOOC OER Coursera Education 138

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. The decrease follows a trend of near-steady spending decline going back at least 10 years to 2007-2008, when students reported spending an average of $701 on course materials.

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Course OER Pearson Survey 166

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Wearable gadgets such as Google Glass and Apple watch is the new trend that has innovated the e-learning industry in the last ten years. Open Education Resources (OER). A good example of this would be the usage of OERs by Sky Customer Service to train their employees. Wearable E-Learning Gadgets.

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MOOC Gamification OER Smartphone 127

Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

In 2014, I wrote about strategies for edtech success in the new school year , and in 2015, I wrote about edtech teaching trends for the new school year. Office of Education Technology launched GoOpen last year, OERs have gotten a big boost. Office of Education Technology launched GoOpen last year, OERs have gotten a big boost.

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OER EdTech Learning iPad 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Yet Open Up Resources , a nonprofit providing open educational resources for the K-12 space, wants to buck the trend. But the move to OER and digital curriculum hasn’t been completely smooth for everyone, Williams adds. Today, the organization is launching its first full (and free) math curriculum as a starting (and proving) point.

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Resources OER Pearson Common Core 118

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

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. Some professors have aesthetic objections to OER materials. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Because most U.S.

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Industry OER Course Company 117

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

The story behind the latest Horizon Report —which ranks tech trends in higher education—is easily more dramatic than the document’s actual conclusions. What’s In This Year’s Edition The Horizon Report aims to identify themes and challenges in higher education and technology, and predict which trends may materialize in the near future.

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Report OER Trends Industry 77

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Online case studies highlight OER implementation in schools. SETDA has published a series of case studies focused on the implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER) at the school level. SETDA encourages state, district and school leaders to leverage this work as they launch and expand OER initiatives.”.

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Case Study OER Study Trends 40

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. The Twiter feed shows the buzz around the trending event and it shows school librarians were at the table. But it was clear to our little group, that to the larger majority of the participants, we were not even on the OER radar.

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OER Edmodo E-rate Libraries 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

Mike Berlin: At the beginning of every year, experts proclaim that this is going to be the year of OER, and each year market forces and a lack of solutions with product-market fit have resulted in that prediction not coming true. Terah Crews: I don’t think 2018 will be the year consolidation spikes.

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OER Knewton Kaplan Company 127

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. Ben-Naim says the acquisition by Pearson could “affect the plan,” which was to build OER content on Smart Sparrow. Smart Sparrow is also a partner in other grant-funded work, including an active project that received $2.5

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 130

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

Arts Edge – A fantastic resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art into the curriculum.You will discover a focus on ways to support innovative teaching with the arts, and meet changing trends in education and to accommodate the ever-evolving impact of technology in our lives.

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STEM Resources OER Conference 207

Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

On April 14th Cable Green, many participants, and I explored this question on the 11th Future Trends Forum. He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. TRENDS IN OPEN EDUCATION. Textbooks are 10-11 years old.

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Trends OER Policies Conference 40

Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

On April 14th Cable Green, many participants, and I explored this question on the 11th Future Trends Forum. He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. TRENDS IN OPEN EDUCATION. Textbooks are 10-11 years old.

Trends 40

Trends OER Policies Conference 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Arts Edge – A fantastic resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art into the curriculum.You will discover a focus on ways to support innovative teaching with the arts, and meet changing trends in education and to accommodate the ever-evolving impact of technology in our lives.

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STEM Resources Classroom OER 164

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

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Tools How To Classroom OER 154

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

market is the trend toward open and free educational resources, or OER. Similarly, the trend toward OER and greater competition among vendors is also expected to negatively impact the LMS market. The only region expected to see a modicum of growth in e-learning revenue over the next five years is Africa, with a CAGR of.9

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Report E-rate OER LMS 70

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

It brings together K-12 educators, companies, reporters, university professors, and students to talk about product announcements, implementation strategies and edtech trends. The ISTE conference isn’t the biggest edtech conference in the world by sheer luck. We caught a few tidbits—take a look below.

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Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 113

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2016

Long before CBE was trending, Southern New Hampshire University gave it a test drive, largely in part to the vision of its president, Paul LeBlanc. You get into things like bundling, you think about OER and alternatives to expensive content. . Disclosure: 1776 is an investor in EdSurge.

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Competency Based Learning OER Assessment Company 107

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

A toolkit for teachers will be made available at the end of the 2015-2016 school year as an OER (open education resources), allowing other teachers across the world to follow this method of quad engineering. “So This project will happen this semester as teachers develop and share best practices for collaborative app development.

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OER Social Media Classroom Industry 150

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

On February 25th Casey Green and I met online for the third Future Trends Forum. Casey noted some long-term persistent trends, such as campus IT seeing technology as an underutilized aid for instruction, and not feeling satisfied about institutional promotion of technology for faculty. Here is the full recording and my notes.

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Trends LMS VLE Technology 40

Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

OER Commons. Every teacher should become familiar with open educational resources, or OERs. Through the OER Commons platform, teachers can search for thousands of lessons or create and share their own. These free resources exist in the public domain for teachers to legally copy, use, adapt, and share.

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EdTech OER Tools Microsoft 66

Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

Being a good digital citizen not only improves the user’s experience but also foils the growing trend of cyberbullying. OER Commons provides a database of free learning materials commonly used by teachers nationwide. Also remind students of what it means to be a good digital citizen and clarify proper online behavioral conduct.

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Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 12, 2015

See Efficacy, the Golden Ratio, and the OER Impact Factor.). As we conduct original research and review the literature on empirical impacts on student outcomes when faculty make a displacing adoption, we’re beginning to see an interesting trend. Other organizations that focus on OER adoption will have additional impacts.

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OER Software Outcomes Smartphone 60

techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Arts Edge – A fantastic resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art into the curriculum.You will discover a focus on ways to support innovative teaching with the arts, and meet changing trends in education and to accommodate the ever-evolving impact of technology in our lives.

STEM 108

STEM Resources Classroom OER 108

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I have a chapter about open educational resources that will be appearing in a book on trends and issues in instructional design and technology later this year. Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). Over 1 billion openly licensed materials are published online.

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Resources OER Secondary Education 60

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Back at ALA Midwinter, I was honored to present on LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel , with fellow panelists Kate Tkacik, Suzanne Wulf, Becky Yoose, James Neal and Cynthia Dudenhoffer. Each of us was initially assigned two trends to explore and discuss. I thought I’d break my own two ish trends and resources into two posts.

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Trends Libraries OER Mobility 42

Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

After one conversation with Cable Green , my Future Trends Forum pursued this theme further on April 27th with excellent and dramatic guest Curtis Bonk. However, most people remain unaware of OER. “We are in the learning century!” ” What does open education mean for higher education?

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Trends MOOC Coursera Education 42

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

“[One] tenth (11 percent) were using OER materials and 4 percent were currently using OER in their classes and also making their own course materials available as OER.” Casey Green will be my guest this week on our new Future Trends Forum. Read the whole thing. More coming in this space.

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OER Study Survey Education 40

Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Last week Martin Dougiamas, the creator of Moodle, the world’s leading open source learning management system, joined our Future Trends Forum to discuss the future of that technology. Someone on the Moodle.com site wrote up an extraordinarily rich report on the session , complete with numerous screen captures.

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Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 79

Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Last week Martin Dougiamas, the creator of Moodle, the world’s leading open source learning management system, joined our Future Trends Forum to discuss the future of that technology. Someone on the Moodle.com site wrote up an extraordinarily rich report on the session , complete with numerous screen captures.

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Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 40