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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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

And it cost each student $100, a price they couldn’t avoid by purchasing a used copy, since the book was designed to be written in. “It So Hardy and a colleague decided to create their own lab manual—and make it open access. But OER advocates think open access course materials hold another kind of promise for students, too.

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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

MARCH 28, 2018

The initiative intends to create degree pathways with courses that only use open educational resources, known as OER, so students don’t have to spend money on class materials. College of the Canyons’ history with OER starts before Anagnonson’s dabble, however. Using OER in those courses, she added, “really started out of necessity.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like: What would happen if students had access to a catalog of free and?this What if faculty of color were engaged in the process of creating books tailored to their classes? The funds will cover financial support and mentorship for faculty who create new open educational resources (OER for short) or adapt existing open textbooks.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Digital textbooks are textbooks that teachers and learners can access online or download to their devices. In addition, educators and learners can access them on multiple devices at any time. . OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). LibreTexts.

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

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

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks. These publisher platforms can have real benefits.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called 2017: RIP OER? , I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” ” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

By adopting e-books in your school or district, you can expand learning opportunities. 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. Learn more.

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ProfHacker

APRIL 4, 2017

The concept of “Open,” particularly when it comes to Open Access, is something that we’ve written a lot about here at Profhacker. What I really like about this book is that it takes a really broad approach to open, including Open Pedagogy, Open Teaching, Open Access, and Open Data.

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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. Books built out of little Lego blocks, glued together so the digital photo student could have their perfect book and the music student could have their perfect book.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

If I feel that one book will save my life this semester, I’ll break down and buy it,” she says. Gupta says she normally gets her reading materials from either Amazon or from a used book event at the end of the year, where students sell their books to students who’ll be taking the classes the next semester. I’m usually broke.”

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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. The Michigan Open Book Project created this digital textbook for kindergarteners. There’s an accompanying teacher’s guide, several activity books and supplemental reading guides as well. .

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I have to say that the conference organizers’ really welcoming attitude towards the involvement of Virtually Connecting showed true commitment to expanding access and openness (thank you Clint Lalonde and David Wiley). Access is an issue. I wrote last week about a global South view of copyright and open access.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 13, 2016

For example, community college adoption of OER depends on the behavior of institutions that most of their students transfer to. described two undergraduates’ experiences with OER. Which were very positive, including love for low cost, easy access, simulation games (for one class). Profits have collapsed.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Booking Info – Time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Past Series Articles.

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ProfHacker

MAY 26, 2017

There are three (open access) books I’ve been meaning to read and review, but I realized if I waited until I finished them, it would take a while, so I thought it would be good to post a “preview” here, of why I hope to dip into these books over summer. Education and Technology: Critical Approaches.

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Digital access : Advocating for learners, families and staff members to have equitable access to technology, digital resources and the internet. Download the free e-book 3. Hāpara can help your school or district easily build and distribute a digital OER textbook collection.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

His work has shown him that “it will definitely be a more sustainable initiative if it is collaborative—-whether it's OER, open access journals, etc.if OERs are often undervalued compared to their paid counterparts, posited Blake Gore of Vanderbilt University and Tanya Spilovy thinks librarians can help.

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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. A third may be the growth of so-called inclusive-access programs. The percent of students who reported downloading free materials has increased each semester since.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

There are many changes I intend to make, but the most significant will be creating a book that is more “evergreen,” a book with less focus on tools and more on the dispositions of digital leaders. Society is now in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , which was in its infancy as I began writing this book.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

Today, college students on average spend more than $1,200 on books and materials, according to The College Board. And focusing on digital makes the secondary textbook market even less attractive, since students have to buy access directly from Pearson to get course materials. According to a study by U.S.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

By leveraging the digital medium, textbook publishers decided to fight the monopoly and try to provide reasonably priced books. This decrease in state funds have compelled educational institutes to prescribe high priced books, so that they can earn from their bookstore contracts. Related: Are etextbooks More Affordable Than Textbooks.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The secret to its swift entry into publishing was OER (open education resources). One notable feature of Knewton’s approach is the price: Each online textbook costs $44 for two years of access, or $9.95 Knewton’s pitch is that its mix of OER and an adaptive-learning system will set it apart.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. Pressbooks (Book Oven Inc. They do not have the technical expertise, the time, or the institutional support to engage meaningfully with OER. Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Also remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. Check out my Booking Page and as always… thanks so much! Open Education Resources – Talk about big, this network brings together 44,129 OER tools for sharing curriculum. Quick Notes.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

It boggles my mind that someone whose industry faces an existential threat from open educational resources (OER) still doesn’t know what open means. The amount of free information online dwarfs the amount of information available as OER. OER are not a threat to publishers simply because they’re free.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. UPCEA’s eDesign Collaborative ), I spent hours doing my own personal research on my university’s open access policy and scouring the library website. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. For instance, Cornell University saved.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2021

It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. I use LaTeX and pandoc for the print book – it is perhaps less convenient that [sic] Word but it is free. We are often told that the most important purpose of being open is to increase access.

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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. The chapter will be openly licensed and I’ll publish it here in full after it appears in the book. Publishers only control the price the initial sale of a printed book.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

The teachers who have access to Vivi-enabled classrooms have been using more interactive tools to engage their students, so it's made them feel more confident in being able to quickly connect, share, show something, get feedback from students. And she can quickly answer questions from wherever she's at.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

Our digital front doors allowed us to: share and scale our resources ensure the ROI for our purchases leverage a growing number of OER promote collaborative efforts and highlight the work of my classroom teacher partners share our library as part of our school culture through image galleries, video channels, and social media feeds ensure that learners (..)

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For some folks in higher ed, the very idea of using open educational resources (OER) sparks dread. The right OER provides professors opportunities to teach the latest research and even make areas like math and science more inclusive. EdSurge: Why are you such a proponent of OER in higher ed? And they weren't great books anyway.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. Teachers and students at one district are replacing print with digital. By and large, it’s working. In high school math teacher Joe Sowinski’s classes, technology has changed class structure.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. million last year from the U.S.

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