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Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
There’s great news out of the recent UNESCO meeting in Paris, where member states unanimously adopted the draft Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER). This dramatically simplifies understanding what is and isn’t OER. Resources in the public domain or released under an open license are OER.
Doug Levin
FEBRUARY 21, 2016
K-12 education system by open educational resources (OER) since 2009, although my first exposure to the ideas and leaders of the movement stretch back to the launch of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. This is where context matters most for the OER movement. Even within the U.S.
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Edsurge
AUGUST 15, 2019
An open-access advocacy group on Wednesday sent a formal filing to the U.S. The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, in a brief opposing the merger of two of the largest textbook publishers. Public Interest Research Group on behalf of several student organizations.
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’m not sure that the document recognizes this.
Edsurge
AUGUST 5, 2017
It’s why mobile access has been one of the most important means of connecting students to their academic resources. So even when students are no longer available via campus email, we still want to keep them connected to academic resources, campus food pantries, crisis centers, and childcare facilities.
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. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. The first has to do with capacity.
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
[Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. I fear it is OER wanting it both ways. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?
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