Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

As momentum for digital learning builds, some districts—80 percent according to the 2017 Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) K12 IT Leadership Survey Report —are using open educational resources (OER), which the U.S. But while many benefits of OER are visible on the surface, we must notice the fine print.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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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. If you didn’t, what do you do now?)

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 10, 2016

Because I can’t stop thinking about open, I’ve been pondering the relationship between solar power and OER. ”, “How can you sell OER if they’re free? ”, “How can you sell OER if they’re free?”, ”, and “If OER are free, why would anyone pay you?”

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 21, 2019

OER advocacy, like most work, is filled alternately with advances and setbacks. But other responses called the discussion of practice unimaginative and accused me of underestimating the pedagogical change that OER is capable of catalyzing. And why aren’t they using OER in their classes? A world of tears.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2017

Open Educational Resources (OER) have yet to cozy up with the more orthodox academics and pushy print publishers of the world. The most recent example occurred this week, when OER company Lumen Learning announced a partnership with one of the country’s largest textbook distributors, Follet Corporation.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. If OER adoption were to become widespread among the majority of faculty, it became clear that someone would need to do something more than create OER, post it on a website, and give conference talks about it. Background and Some Problems.

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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?” OER often shine in their variety and ability to deepen resources for niche topics. frequent formative assessment opportunities) can appear in educational resources with any copyright license.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 29, 2016

In addition to appreciating the time savings, many faculty argue that participation in the peer assessment process can actually promote deeper student learning. This is absolutely true when faculty take the time necessary to design the peer assessment experience and supporting artifacts (like rubrics) well. They can’t.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

Given the rise of OER (of which I am a fan ), an increasing array of business models, questions about the degree of alignment to state standards and assessments, claims of effectiveness, and interoperability concerns, the instructional materials procurement decisions facing school districts have never been more complicated.

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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. These systems reduce all the richness and complexity of deciding what a learner should be doing to – sometimes literally – a “Next” button.

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 18, 2016

We rarely have anyone knocking on our doors but the fact is there is a lot of money in a closed system of education resources. This closed system of educational resources only hurts students. This short video does a great job of explaining why OER matters. Below are a few of my favorite OER sites and resources.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

At a session on addressing structural discrimination on campus, Jasmine Roberts, a communications lecturer at the Ohio State University (and EdSurge columnist), asked attendees to think about and share ways that the traditional education systems permits institutional racism. Nothing is neutral.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

As K–12 institutions digitally progress, slow data sharing between parents, teachers and administrators is leaving all players increasingly frustrated as they are forced to wait for important information sent through what is quickly becoming an outdated system. This is not just a hypothetical example. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2012 Kim Thanos and I founded Lumen Learning because, through our Gates-funded work on the Kaleidoscope Project, we had seen first-hand how hard it was for faculty to replace publisher materials with OER. It seemed like lots of people wanted to publish and share their own OER, but no one wanted to use anyone else’s.

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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. Why don’t I instead build a system or a platform where we can have hundreds of different possible textbooks to teach the concepts I’m teaching?”

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2018

T]he bigger concern with the way grades are addressed in the RISE framework is that they are plotting assessment scores instead of individual item scores. Actually, we’re using neither individual items nor the entire assessment score. Not just the OER itself, but the chapter and page number…. [I]f

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

With embedded glossaries and formative online assessments, they can self-monitor. You can find these digital textbooks on open educational resource (OER) sites. Learners simply need to log in to their learning system to access them. . Specific skills include organization, self-monitoring and flexibility. .

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Students will be able to research and record key facts involving the planets of the solar system. Relevant Nouns – planets, solar system. Contains formative learning and assessment opportunities.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. OER and open books. Adaptive learning systems. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. Digital badges.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

Welcome to post number three in a series devoted to formative learning (assessment). Part 3: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities. OER Possibilities. While an LMS (Learning Management System) can provide some of these capabilities, many of the below tools can be integrated with an LMS.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Learning Management System (LMS). During the last ten years, many corporate giants and schools have started using Learning Management System to train employees, students or customers. E-learning automation helps to automatically create online content and assessments for a course. Open Education Resources (OER).

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER. It wraps pre-assessments, in situ formative assessments, and summative assessments around OER. Like Waymaker, OHM wraps these and other features around OER. No one is ever denied access to the OER in Lumen courses for any reason.

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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. But content is not top on your list.” So what do we do with the results of this research?

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 18, 2021

The standards and skills are constantly assessed in a variety of ways involving numerous stake holders. Most of all, there is an alignment between standards, skills, and assessment. Since collaboration is at the heart of PBL it should always be included and assessed. Student self-assessment is powerful.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2019

We realized that the key to solving this complicated equation was to put into place a system that captured, tracked, and managed our educational ROI, or EROI. Our EROI journey began with a specialist in assessing ROI, Glimpse K12. We started with a current state and needs assessment analysis. Taking control of the ‘why’.

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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. Lumen provides for-fee, value-added hosting, integration, assessment, messaging, and other services around openly licensed content. Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 23, 2020

But in the spirit of “pragmatism before zeal,” I argue in my comments specifically against three unintended consequences of open requirements as they pertain to LMSs, efficacy research, and assessment security / adoptability. simulations), and adaptive support and assessment tools.”. as part of a mandatory technology fee).

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The Cohort topics include Competency-based Professional Learning, Data Interoperability, Engaged Learning, Innovative Assessment, Learner Variability, and Rural Education. Assessment Data Interoperability: Integrating assessment data to support teacher instruction and student learning.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Go easy on the inspirational, aspirational statements; go deep on data to support the needs assessments and recommendations. Be explicit with districts about expectations for access to technology in schools and classrooms. In 2016, this includes a statewide strategy for technology in K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Digital OER are free. In K-12 schools, however, where open educational resources have been hailed as an opportunity to democratize high-quality curriculum and break the publishing oligopoly, OER has had a slower uptake. There’s a lot of buzz around OER in schools and districts, but actual practice hasn’t reached systemic levels.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

Now benefits like those cost reductions and higher student success rates are prompting the school to roll out more Z-degrees programs and extend its partnership with Lumen Learning by piloting next-generation adaptive OER courseware. But Tidewater doesn’t have plans for total conversion to OER, despite the benefits.

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