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Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later

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Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks. These publisher platforms can have real benefits.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. The State appropriations per full-time student have fallen from an inflation-adjusted $8,489 in 2007 to $7,642 in 2017. This way, students get to access unlimited resources without spending a dime.

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More College Students Are Downloading Course Materials for Free—Or Skipping Them Entirely

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That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. The decrease follows a trend of near-steady spending decline going back at least 10 years to 2007-2008, when students reported spending an average of $701 on course materials.

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A Growing (But Controversial) Idea in Open-Access Textbooks: Let Students Help Write Them

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It was 2007, and Larsen was teaching a physical chemistry for life sciences course at the University of California at Davis. But at UC Davis, “administrators could do a lot more in order to facilitate the adoption of OER projects,” Larsen says. Coppola toyed with other open-access resources, but most were too advanced for her students.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. From bundling its clicker technology with course materials from other publishers, the company now offers a marketplace and authoring tools for people to build their own courses on the platform. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’”

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

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For more inspiration, check out these posts: We Are Teachers: Teachers are Creating Virtual Bitmoji Classrooms Bitmoji Classroom Tutorials (Jenny Murphy) How to Create a Virtual Bitmoji Scene in Google Slides or PowerPoints (Shana Ramin). Valenza, J.K. 2011) Evolving the Virtual School Library, Part 1: Deconstructing My Own Interface. TechLearning.

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From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find?

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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.

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