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38 Community Colleges Share What It Takes to Launch an OER Degree Program

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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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Reflections on 20 Years of Open Content: Lessons from Open Source

Iterating Toward Openness

It would be unthinkable today to have a webmaster chair a committee tasked with everything from creating funding models for online course development to writing the policy regarding ownership (copyright) of the materials created by faculty for use when teaching online. I was a music major from West Virginia. I don’t trust them.

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The Revisability Paradox

Iterating Toward Openness

Try this detailed elucidation of the reusability paradox from 2002.). OER and the Revisability Paradox. That bit of history prepares us to discuss open educational resources (OER) and the revisability paradox. I don’t believe readers of this blog need much additional context about OER.

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.