Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

What I do want to comment on (in greater than 140 characters) is the practice of ‘openwashing:’ what it is, why I believe not being able to go beyond a pro-OER elephant test for organizations and service providers is untenable in practice, and some thoughts on what we can do about it. The Pro-OER Elephant Test.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 26, 2016

When we look at common definitions of Open Educational Resources or OERs (e.g., But what if we adopt a different perspective, a broader understanding of OERs, which includes the processes and products of open scholarship as valuable, and viable, resources too?

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. But it was clear to our little group, that to the larger majority of the participants, we were not even on the OER radar. Some OER background: Launched in October, GoOpen is a U.S. What are OER? We made an impact.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

CMS – Content Management System (a tool to build websites and apps). LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). OER – Open Educational Resource (this can be any online materials that are free to use). OSS – Open Source Software (programs online that are free to use).

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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. Since professors typically require use of these tools to participate in class, students complain that they are essentially being charged to turn in their assignments.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

“You can think about it as almost an Amazon-like self-publishing system plus Amazon Kindle store plus Amazon Kindle reader software for courseware,” said Feldstein. The system will also pull in some OER textbook material developed by OpenStax , a low-cost publisher at Rice University. going to be layering on a service.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

There are many changes I intend to make, but the most significant will be creating a book that is more “evergreen,” a book with less focus on tools and more on the dispositions of digital leaders. More and more schools have gone 1:1 thanks to the cost-effectiveness of the Chromebook and cloud-based tools. What should be removed?

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OER Personal Learning Network Outcomes Blended Learning 243

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2021

It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. If you start with my github repo, you can build an LMS, a web site, an online teaching system, and even a camera ready textbook ready for printing using 100% free software. But what actually happens in practice?

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

It is a software application that helps you create, track, and report training programme or educational courses anywhere using any device. Open Education Resources (OER). A good example of this would be the usage of OERs by Sky Customer Service to train their employees. Learning Management System (LMS).

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

A bundle that includes access to its other online tools, including MyLab and Mastering, costs about $79. The goal, she says, is to “make our tools more versatile in terms of how we help students learn.” Today, companies like Pearson and Cengage bundle digital content with other online tools that some students are required to use.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The secret to its swift entry into publishing was OER (open education resources). Yet, professors can build their own OER textbook for free, and companies such as Lumen Learning sell courseware products based on OER (with homework-delivery features and other tools) for less (about $25 per student).

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Knewton Strategy OER Pearson 117

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

In this post I showcase some tools that can assist in both creating lessons that promote formative possibilities and resources that will allow educators to create videos that will enhance a students formative learning . Do you have some formative tools to share… please let me know and I will share them in an upcoming post.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 14, 2017

to do continuous improvement in education, you need OER (permission to change) plus analytics (info about what to change). And this is where two new (to me) open source tools have proven to be really powerful and interesting. The second is Rattle (the R Analytical Tool To Learn Easily): Rattle makes much of the data preparation (e.g.,

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Analysis Data Tools Learning 64

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2018

As the title of the document makes explicit, the framework aims to contribute to the conversation about the sustainability of OER: “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship” It’s a valuable contribution to that conversation. I struggle to see how this will be possible.

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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. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. Pressbooks (Book Oven Inc.

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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. Faculty also have access to a range of tools that make it easy to identify and reach out to students who are struggling while there is still time to do something.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2019

Managing our EROI by identifying ineffective spending and re-deploying those resources back into more effective tools, resources, and programs for our students incrementally boosts student achievement by definition. Challenges to ROI. All of us like to think we do a great job at managing our EROI, but the truth is, very few of us actually do.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Peak Mathematics uses Pearson’s MyMathTest, an online homework tool that has adaptive technology that personalizes the content and pacing for each student. Wallinga adopted Enhanced WebAssign (EWA), an online homework support tool that gives students instant detailed feedback. The result? 2016 Faculty-Led Team Awards.

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Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 88

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The open source software side of the open house has absolutely no issue with commercial entities using or contributing to open source software. ”, you declare, “the overwhelming majority of OER in the world are licensed in ways that permit commercial use, so what’s the problem?” What the heck is going on?

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

[Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. I fear it is OER wanting it both ways. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 63

techlearning

AUGUST 9, 2018

of the software will offer all of the features included in the beta version as well as new additions such as dynamically linked representations, additional types of graphing interactions, improved authoring tools, and more. Where to Find & Curate OER Resources ] Version 1.0 Casio America, Inc. Version 1.0

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EmergingEdTech

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

OpenStax College is Testing Embedded Coaching Software for Their OER Textbooks … and YOU can Help. More and more teachers, administrators, and #edtech enthusiasts like yours truly are becoming. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Districts having success in this area have comprehensive refresh plans, work with high quality partners, build relationships with local businesses, work diligently to receive grants, and leverage a variety of open educational resources (OERs). Commit to Personalized Professional Learning.

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EdTech Future Ready Social Media Broadband 189

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

How We Got Here In 1998, when I launched the OpenContent project and the first open license for educational materials and other creative works (that weren’t software), I encouraged anyone and everyone to openly license anything they were willing to openly license. And that’s essentially where innovation stopped.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

In three years as an investor at Reach Capital, an edtech venture fund, I’ve watched public, private and philanthropic dollars pour into school operations, adaptive software, data analytics, teacher development, and teacher tools in worthy attempts to improve education. More filler than fire-starter. Quantity over quality.

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EdTech OER Industry Study 102

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

One new category of tool schools are experimenting with is. These digital tools help students master course learning goals by using data generated from students’ interactions with the adaptive software to predict what students should view or do next online. Tell me how the tool works. adaptive technology.

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Learning OER Software Course 60

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Those making “personalized,” “adaptive” or other technology tools fuel that nervousness when they fail to answer a basic question that every child is raised and taught to ask in school: How does it work? The adults who build tools to support this goal ought to hold themselves to that standard as well. This is a mistake.

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Personalized Learning Learning Facebook OER 93

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Tyton Partners describes digital courseware as “instructional content that is scoped and sequenced to support delivery of an entire course through purpose-built software. These new initiatives include alternate education delivery models like competency-based and OER degree programs, or student-facing degree planning and advising tools.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 31, 2020

I’m going to write a post or three about some of the friction that exists around using OER. There are some things about working with OER that are just harder or more painful than they need to be, and getting more people actively involved in using OER will require us to reduce or eliminate those points of friction.

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OER LMS Software Course 103

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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

SchoolMessenger Passport allows districts to provide teachers, staff, parents and students with quick and secure access to online learning applications, open educational resources (OER), and a variety of school management and administration software programs using a single sign-on.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Absent checks on real and potential biases, errors and omissions, students’ future educational prospects are being shaped by software. For example, many of the nation’s largest school systems use Google’s free suite of education tools, which allows teachers to develop their lessons, create assignments and administer assessments online.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 21, 2017

As I’ve written about at some length before, whether you’re talking about open content, open educational resources, open access (to research), open data, open knowledge, open source, or open standards, in all of these contexts “open” means: Free access to the content, resource, journal article, data, knowledge artifact, software, or standard, and.

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OER Handbook Examples Accessibility 60

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

But many times tech is only integrated at specific points in the classroom or with a specific tool as determined by the teacher. In the edWebinar “ Students Leverage Technology Tools and Makerspaces to Personalize Learning,” Grace Borst, Innovation Specialist at St.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

This means that you can write your own textbooks, share them, or use them as you would any other OER or open education resource. This makes Expii valuable for math teachers and students because of your flexibility in using them. What makes Expii unique? But for you, at that point, it won’t be impossible; it would just be 50-50.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

10 Free Learning Websites for Kids 51 Great Tools for educators and students to use [link] Richland School District Two 1TWO1 Digital Starter Kit [link] Excellent collection of web apps, sorted by category, with lots of information and ideas for using the web apps in class. You can also share your clipboards via different social networks.

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Chromebook Google Edmodo Study 100