Edsurge
JULY 25, 2019
That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. The survey includes responses from nearly 20,000 college students at 41 four-year and two-year institutions across 20 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.
Kitaboo on EdTech
JUNE 13, 2019
As per the latest annual survey of state spending by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), state spending per student has declined at public colleges and universities by around 8%. The State appropriations per full-time student have fallen from an inflation-adjusted $8,489 in 2007 to $7,642 in 2017.
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
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. The textbook that Delmar Larsen assigned his students was full of errors, and he knew it.
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2019
And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). And there's the fact that surveys show many students still prefer printed textbooks to digital ones.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
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.
Hack Education
MARCH 16, 2018
Lisa Petrides, Douglas Levin, and Eddie Watson introduce The CARE Framework for OER. ” Via The Register : “Privacy activists have called for more transparency and parental control over web monitoring in British schools after a survey indicated that almost half track their students online.” ” More via OPB.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. For its part, the OECD, the organization that administers the PISA test, has started surveying 10- to 15-year-olds’ social and emotional skills too.
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