Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Lumen Learning, a company that sells low-cost OER textbooks and courseware, plans to start offering professional development services for faculty that can be bundled with its titles. In other words, some of its textbooks are now sold with coaching on how to teach with OER more effectively.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Open educational resources hit a turning point in 2018. For the first time ever, the federal government put forward funds to support initiatives around open educational resources, and recent studies show that faculty attitudes towards using and adapting these openly-licensed learning materials are steadily improving.

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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. So says the new Educause Horizon report , which identifies technologies and trends that are changing higher education. These are the kinds of efforts the report describes as helping OER spread in the U.S.

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OER Resources Education Report 181

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

One popular draw to open educational resources is that these openly-licensed learning materials can—and are often encouraged to—be tailored for a particular professor or course. Communications librarian Kristen Hoffman oversees much of the OER work at Seattle Pacific University, a Christian university in Washington.

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OER Libraries Course Study 105

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. But, first, a little background: I’ve been playing around with building virtual school libraries for a very long time. I thought quite a bit about how important this virtual presence was to me over the course of 25 years. website evolution.

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Libraries OER Wiki Strategy 145

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.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In this comprehensive guide, I’ve categorized a selection of key search engines for teachers and educators into various categories, each tailored to meet specific needs within the educational landscape. My goal is to make the digital world more navigable and less overwhelming, especially in an educational context.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In addition, educators and learners can access them on multiple devices at any time. . While some subjects cover higher education, you can browse the high school section to find math and science textbooks for secondary education. OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER).

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 20, 2015

As we work to move entire degree programs from commercial textbooks to open educational resources, we must answer this critical question – can all commercial materials be replaced with open educational resources? Asking this question can lead directly to a fruitful collaboration with your campus library.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Although they would eventually change their model to focus on traditionally copyrighted textbooks, FWK’s over 100 openly licensed textbooks can still be found archived around the web in places like the Open Textbook Library and the Saylor Foundation’s website. Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2019

Sadly, as Audrey Watters has frequently noted, it might be impossible to find a field of endeavor outside educational technology where more of the participants are so utterly ignorant of its history. (I How could the things we learned about educational radio possibly inform our work with education television? Or computers?

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

Use of free course materials among college students is up, with 22 percent downloading at least one such resource during the spring 2019 semester, according to research published Wednesday by the National Association of College Stores. The percent of students who reported downloading free materials has increased each semester since.

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Course OER Pearson Survey 142

Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 23, 2018

By definition, open educational resources (OER) are licensed in a manner that gives you permission to change, update, and improve them. Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning.

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OER Learning Analytics Analysis Course 64

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Millie González and her colleagues aren’t here to argue about whether open educational resources are on par with traditional textbooks?she González and Framingham State University, where she is interim director of Whittemore Library, are part of a consortium in Massachusetts looking to answer different questions.

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OER Outcomes Course Social Media 137

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. Achieving the Dream Launches Major National Initiative to Help 38 Community Colleges in 13 States Develop New Degree Programs Using Open Educational Resources.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

As countless educators around the world have scrambled to figure out how to deliver lessons remotely with whisker-thin budgets, many turned to open education resources (OER). CK-12 is at the forefront of OER by doing adaptive and personalized learning. More people should be doing it the way they are.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Our typical conversations about the efficacy of educational materials completely miss this critical distinction. When students who can’t afford their textbooks have to borrow them from friends or check them out from the library, they’re likely receiving an insufficient dose or duration of use. Why does the distinction matter?

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Pearson OER Comparison Case Study 60

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. I was proud to be there to share along with some serious library power: AASL President Leslie Preddy, Mark Ray (WA) Washington, Jennifer Boudrye (D.C.) Some OER background: Launched in October, GoOpen is a U.S. What are OER?

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OER Edmodo E-rate Libraries 40

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2023

Lightning struck: There didn’t seem to be a place where teachers could share educational resources with each other, which might help them sort through it all. Called AwesomeSTEAM , it’s a small platform that collects open educational resources from around the web. But all this raises the question: Isn’t that something libraries do?

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Resources Libraries Instructional Materials Study 163

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Be on the look out for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Standards make up the general knowledge of what educators want students to know.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. Today, OpenStax—part tech startup, part publishing house, part cognitive science research lab—has a library of three dozen titles. You could maybe change the world, or at least the world of education.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

Professors assign textbooks (or other materials) that they view as required to succeed in their courses, but some students say they go in with a wait-and-see attitude: They delay a week or two into the semester, and then obtain only the materials that seem truly necessary to them. “I I try to just rent them for the semester,” she says.

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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. High school math – “Precalculus” Several college educators collaborated on this textbook to use in any pre-calculus course. English language arts digital textbooks. Science digital textbooks.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In that context, that non-disclosure may be revealing for how far Knewton, which has been one of the most well-funded education technology companies, has fallen short of financial expectations. Wiley, once a major publisher of higher-education materials, has seen its education publishing business shrink over the years.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 21, 2016

She began developing the concept for CommonLit while studying education policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. CommonLit is a fine example of OER curation and OER creation that belongs in every librarian’s toolkit. Readings are organized around fourteen commonly-taught universal themes.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2020

As we all navigate through these unprecedented times, we want educators and parents to know they’re not alone,” said Patrick Connolly, President and CEO of Follett Corporation. These are solutions customers already have access to, and our goal is to ensure they know about all their options to help with the continuity of education.”.

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eBook OER Libraries Learning 66

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

It wasn’t until three semesters into my degree, after spending $1,000 dollars merely renting my textbooks that I discovered my University’s ebook library. After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. The Double-Dipping Problem.

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OER Libraries Dropout Case Study 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education. New York, NY: Pearson Education. Education is sharing. Copyright law places artificial limits on our ability to use technology to share educational materials.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

And even before the management change, the company had quietly started building a huge library of courses bolted to its adaptive engine. The secret to its swift entry into publishing was OER (open education resources). And officials say that professors at 80 colleges are already trying the textbooks in their courses.

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Knewton Strategy OER Pearson 111

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 5, 2018

This is another post in my series of posts showing gratitude and appreciation for members of the open education community. From their website: The Open Textbook Network (OTN) helps higher education institutions and systems advance the use of open textbooks and practices on their campuses. OTN is a membership organization.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We're excited to announce our first Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, March 13th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Intellus Learning , an educational platform as a service company, have partnered to provide academic libraries with a content curation, assignment, recommendation and analytics tool.

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OER Libraries Learning Company 40

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

But now it wants to compete with them in their core business of course materials. Today, Top Hat announced it has reached an agreement to acquire more than 400 higher education textbooks from Nelson, one of the biggest educational publishers in Canada. And it just may have found a key piece to make that strategy click.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Decrease in State Funding: The government has been scaling back on the funding on college education since the great recession of 2008. Post the recession, states cut inflation-adjusted spending on K–12 education by approximately 4% between 2008 and 2013. This adds up to the tuition fees.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We hope you'll consider joining our first Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, March 13th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). (We Please also join the Library 2.0

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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?” In my post I wrote, My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. Stephen’s goal is access for all.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

In this post I would like to introduce you to way that you can ensure the standards are amplified, and not ignored, by the integration of educational technology. Check out this wonderful magazine for some great K12 educational articles, I will be presenting at Alan November’s BLC in Boston in July.

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