Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 9, 2020
In this first bite-sized installment I’m going to address the major flaw in the OER definition provided as part of the recent UNESCO OER Recommendation. If traditional copyright protection prohibited no-cost access, libraries could not exist. The definition in the recommendation as set forth in Section I.
Iterating Toward Openness
MAY 20, 2015
When we exercise that right and explain an idea in our own words (and perhaps other media), we then hold the copyright to our explanations of those ideas. Whenever it is impossible to replace commercial materials with OER for these reasons, we find ourselves in a situation where commercial materials must be used in the course.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 30, 2019
Not everything she found was useful or reliable, as is the case for most web searches, so she took time to vet each exercise. Now, Rouse no longer needs to search for exercises outside of work. “It It really is a time saver for me,” says Rouse, who’s taught for about 13 years. Most of those paying schools are international.
Hapara
MAY 12, 2022
They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. It offers a range of writing exercises specifically written for high school. Digital Backpack even includes an already-built library of openly-licensed and public textbooks that your school or district can distribute.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
The platform also offers a library of supplemental resources from third-party providers. The system can also recommend follow-up activities and exercises specific to areas where a student may struggle. Both executives said more specific pricing will be finalized in 2020.
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
JANUARY 21, 2019
MIT Blossoms – All of the lessons in the MIT Blossoms library have been contributed by BLOSSOMS partners from around the world. Find standards-aligned content and assign practice exercises, videos and articles. OER Commons Math – This is a large collection of online resources that are part of the open education resource field.
Graphite Blog
MAY 4, 2016
The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). You can also browse the entire CC Flickr library by license at [link]. In a sense, CC licenses are the infrastructure of roads underlying the ecosystem of OER to make reuse and sharing possible.
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