Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

releases of the Linux kernel came from employees at Intel, IBM, Google, Facebook, Samsung, RedHat, and SUSE. And it’s not only “newer” companies like Google or Facebook. Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model. And a switch to OER would help publishers solve both of them.

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2018

Can open educational resources, or OER, truly create more equity and access? That was the question at the heart of our #DLNchat on January 9, which centered around OER in Higher Education. To me OER is also about the democratization of access to education, and the pursuit and sharing of knowledge.

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OER Resources Education Digital Learning 77

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 63

Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

You can also assign the videos directly to Google Classroom. Google’s Be Internet Awesome Google offers a free program called Be Internet Awesome that teaches kids about digital citizenship and helps them make responsible decisions online. Other resources include educator guides, background reading for learners and glossaries.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Elementary OER 274

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. For example, imagine two versions of a college algebra course.

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OER LMS Pearson System 60

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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OER Pearson System Assessment 60

techlearning

AUGUST 8, 2018

Guest post by Steve Baule, Educational Leadership Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Superior: As the school year begins, one of the struggles many teachers have is finding good repositories of Open Education Resources (OER). The OER Commons is a core site with resources from pre-school through adult education.

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OER Resources Handbook Course 40

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Google Scholar : Known for its wide-ranging scholarly literature, Google Scholar covers articles, theses, books, and conference papers across multiple disciplines. Google Books : A comprehensive service from Google, this platform offers a wide range of books in digital format.

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Education OER Libraries Accessibility 115

EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

GAFE – Google Apps For Education (include Google Docs, Google Sites etc). MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). FC – Flipped Classroom ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ).

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EdTech VLE CMS OER 189

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. Have you ever used the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on the Google homepage? I mean, this is Google ’s search algorithm we’re talking about, created by an army of PhDs.

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OER Assessment System Google 60

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Furthermore, universities and school are also inclined towards diversifying their facilities through online courses. According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). However, some courses are chargeable. Personalized E-Learning Courses.

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | The breach affects 1.3

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. I thought quite a bit about how important this virtual presence was to me over the course of 25 years. You will, of course, have some very different needs or ideas and I know you will want to redecorate.

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Libraries OER Wiki Strategy 145

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites).

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | The breach affects 1.3

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A Google Custom Search Engine could be the answer. A Google Custom search (or CSE) allows you to guide searchers to the sites you want them to search or sites they most need to search. teachers to the best resources across the multiple OER portals. wax museum researchers to solid sources of biography.

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Google OER Resources Course 66

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Learning.com ‘s Curriculum Foundry, a solution for seamlessly accessing, organizing and sharing digital content, is now fully integrated with Google Drive and Google Apps for Education. Using Curriculum Foundry’s comprehensive set of tools, educators can build learning objects, lessons, units and even entire courses.

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Google OER Chromebook Education 40

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

A quick search via Google shows that Stephen Downes is mentioned over 500 times on the pages of Iterating Toward Openness. Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER. It wraps pre-assessments, in situ formative assessments, and summative assessments around OER. Are they denied access?

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OER LMS Assessment Course 60

Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Google Apps and Chromebooks App Recommendations and Substitutions Here is a list of Google Apps and Web Apps to use. 4c6x4p5qplh7 Google For Education Resources [link] Google Classroom - new resource for teachers to manage classes, assignments, student work, and to communicate with students. The process is so simple!

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Chromebook Google Edmodo Study 100

Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Google Classroom. Google Classroom is the go-to resource for teachers looking to organize and streamline their workflows. Teachers accumulate a ton of materials over the course of a year. OER Commons. Every teacher should become familiar with open educational resources, or OERs. Teaching Tolerance.

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EdTech OER Tools Microsoft 66

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Resources: “Finding the Nouns or Facts” How might your identification of the curriculum standard nouns along with OER fit into a classroom ?

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

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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OER LMS Secondary Course 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

Remind is a good example of this because professors can easily and privately share with a whole class, or groups within a class, relevant course materials. These mobile messages keep students connected to course material and let students know we care about them, but the system is still too one-size-fits-all.

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 84

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2017

When our adult students came, other than giving them evening courses and a couple of offices that would be open until seven on Monday night, there was no support,” she says. The rub with OER, though, is that some people feel these free materials aren’t as good as published textbooks. Remind people how big the OER effort is at UMUC.

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OER Course Learning Analytics Company 83

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Teachers in each department have been developing their own custom Google-based websites over the span of a year with help from high school teacher John Hineman, who is overseeing the project. The bill will phase in clearinghouse courses over two phases, with the first phase beginning in the 2017-18 school year. image via AP ].

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iPad OER Meeting eBook 40

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 1, 2019

One of these days, after I’ve retired, I’m going to write a radically restructured, OER-based freshman music theory course, based on research I did early in my career and what I’ve learned about good teaching since then. Something has always stuck out to me about the freshmen music theory course.

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Data Education OER MOOC 94

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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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

By the way, this resource is excellent for any Google for Education school that uses the Chrome browser, not just Chromebooks! While I can’t actually fit 100 ideas into this blog post and podcast episode, I can offer you a FREE Google Chromebook resource that is loaded with ideas, lessons, apps, and more! Click To Tweet.

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Chromebook Khan Academy Classroom Google 78

Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The recently published OER strategy document , as informative as it is, reads more like a list of issues and opportunities than what Michael Feldstein describes as “ rungs on a ladder of ambition.” This is a conversation we almost never have in the field of open education. What is our long-term goal?

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OER Education Course Resources 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

"This sort of pie-in-the-sky belief that simply getting more computers in kids' hands and more app-development elective courses in schools will make the future bright is an oversimplification of a complex issue." Case in point: Chrome extensions gone bad.

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Following on the heels of “ Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond ,” three more School of Open courses are now open for sign-up. These free courses are: 1. This course will equip Australian educators with the copyright knowledge to confidently use copyright material in the classroom. Copyright 4 Educators (AUS).

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Course OER Case Study Education 28

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

THE BIG GUYS: Here’s news from Google, ABCMouse, and Amazon. First up, Google Education announced a new “casting” app for the classroom projector, released the “Expeditions” virtual reality app for all teachers and students, and added a new quizzing feature in Google Forms. Full EdSurge coverage on Google here.)

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Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 109

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

As Troy Markowitz suggested, “Institutions need to better connect the skills attained derived from course curriculum/programs. At our next #DLNchat , we’ll discuss Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Ed. Add it your Google calendar for Tuesday, January 9 at 1pm PT/ 4pm PT. Students simply don't make the connection.

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OER Outcomes Digital Learning Online Learning 64

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

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. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Of course, if you want to try multiple resources go ahead, Keep in mind that it is important that we take small steps, so just one is fine. OER Commons : ( [link] ) – Wonderful place to find lessons and blended learning ideas that can cover standards that fit into a PBL or just a single lesson.

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Blended Learning Learning LMS STEM 180

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 17, 2018

Some of my colleagues use Lynda.com to gather playlists from specific elements selected across the hundreds of offered courses. Differentiation : Imagine creating instruction (face-to-face or flipped) using Google Docs or Slides as your major platform. OER and you: The curation mandate. Curation Situations Poster.

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Khan Academy OER lynda.com Learning 41