Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 31, 2022
This article started out with my being bothered by the fact that ‘OER adoption reliably saves students money but does not reliably improve their outcomes.’ ’ For many years OER advocates have told faculty, “When you adopt OER your students save money and get the same or better outcomes!”
A Principal's Reflections
MAY 20, 2018
A great deal has changed since Digital Leadership was published in 2014. Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. I would love your feedback after reading this post. What should be removed?
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
We’re looking at ways to increase equity in the classroom,” wrote Jeff Gallant, program manager of Affordable Learning Georgia, in the report. For example, biology professor Peggy Brickman worked with OpenStax, a nonprofit OER publisher, to create a “UGA Concepts of Biology” textbook.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 22, 2019
Harnessing this social drive in the classroom can take students further than they can go alone. Powerful learning gives students a voice in the classroom by empowering them as experts in their own rights. Teachers, too, can make sharing artifacts of teaching and learning the norm in their classrooms.
NeverEndingSearch
JULY 5, 2017
Back in 2014, our interviews and surveys led us to a taxonomy of digital curation. Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 19, 2016
In February of 2014, Obama rounded up technology donations worth more than a $1 billion from U.S. But as Betsy Corcoran outlined in her July 2014 article , some companies had yet to deliver on their promise of clearly outlining how educators could apply for those products and services. corporations, from Apple to Adobe.
edWeb.net
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
Mountain Heights Academy in Utah, the 2017 Student Voices Award winner, encourages students to participate in the instructional design process using an OER curriculum. Although they aren’t in the classroom together, the students stay connected on their project leveraging tools like G Suite for Education or Blackboard Collaborate.
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