Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 11, 2020
In the first installment on Monday, I explained how a fundamental failure to understand copyright makes the definition of OER in the new UNESCO recommendation nonsensical. In the second installment yesterday, I described how it appears that many in the OER community have taken their eye off the ball of student learning.
Edsurge
JUNE 22, 2017
Tuition increased 89 percent from 2002 to 2012, and textbook prices—which cost anywhere from $600 to $1300 today—rose 82 percent over the same period, according to U.S. And that’s been the driver behind nonprofit Achieving the Dream ’s (ATD) OER Degree Initiative , where 38 U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 29, 2018
When the university got serious about exploring the use of the internet for education, as webmaster I was appointed chair of the Electronic Course Oversite Committee. When Creative Commons released its first licenses in late 2002 it was a Godsend. I was a music major from West Virginia. I don’t trust them. Freeriders!
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
In 2002, UNESCO followed those leads choosing to name the subset of open content that was useful for teaching and learning “open educational resources,” instead of a name with “free” in the title.). Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model. And a switch to OER would help publishers solve both of them.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
AUGUST 13, 2011
The LearnCentral event page is [link] Gary Lopez is the Founder and Executive Director of Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE, [link] ), a non-profit corporation dedicated to helping meet society’s need for access to quality education, and the manager of the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) and HippoCampus ( [link] ).
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
DECEMBER 13, 2018
He has taught courses on Communications + Information Technology as well as Culture + Technology. His faculty development efforts include developing the Berks Educational Technology Grant Curriculum Program in 2002. He has given hundreds of presentations at conferences, meetings, webinars, and workshops.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Bryant focuses on promoting best practices in course design for higher education, instructional support for Emory’s learning management system (Canvas), and managing the Instructional Design + Technology Community of Practice (IDTCoP) for faculty, support professionals and course content developers across Emory University and Emory Healthcare.
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