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Faculty are Losing Interest in Adopting OER

Iterating Toward Openness

I was particularly interested in the survey’s findings about the state of open educational resources in US higher education. The faculty survey asked the following question in 2018 and again in 2021: Which, if any, of the following open educational resources have you created and/or used in your courses?

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Lumen Learning, a Proponent of OER, Makes First Acquisition to Offer Faculty Coaching

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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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Information Age vs Generation Age Technologies for Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

” Information age paradigms like open educational resources (OER) were all about leveraging the power of the internet to make perfect copies of existing resources and distribute them at scale at close to zero cost. It’s not about retrieving something from a hard drive, and doing a little bit of compute and sending it out.

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Adopting Open Educational Resources Can Help Students. But It Takes Time, Money and Effort.

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There’s new evidence that open educational resources may contribute to helping students complete college. The findings come out of the Achieving the Dream OER Degree Initiative , which provided grant money to 38 community colleges across 13 states to create degree pathways of courses that use OER materials instead of commercial textbooks.

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Online Learning Book Recommendations: And Why I Read so Few Books on the Topic

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Dear Bonni, In the midst of this current COVID situation, I'm looking to up my game … as an educator … especially in the online environment. I’m wondering if you might recommend what top three books would you suggest I read outside of ‘Urgency for Teachers,’ ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed,’ ‘The New Education?’

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?OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students. Here’s Why They Should

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With course materials averaging around $1,200 per year , many colleges over the past decade have adopted open educational resources (OER) to cut costs for students. This body of research is impressive, given the general dearth of research on and accounting for what students actually learn in college. This isn’t uncommon.

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How to sort the good from the bad in OER

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. . Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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