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?OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students. Here’s Why They Should

Edsurge

With course materials averaging around $1,200 per year , many colleges over the past decade have adopted open educational resources (OER) to cut costs for students. One review offers evidence that students using OER as their primary course material sometimes perform better.) This isn’t uncommon.

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Campus Tech Leaders Report More Support for Free Educational Materials

Wired Campus

“The OER movement is still young.” That number has doubled since 2011 and more than tripled since 2010. “The next level up,” he added, “is mobile learning and the role that mobile apps might play in that.” IT leaders’ No. Those changes reflect campuses playing catch-up, Mr. Green said.

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10Q: Martin Weller - the battle for open

Learning with 'e's

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. 2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011. This is particularly true of the sort of learners you might want to reach with MOOCs (people who cannot access normal higher education for instance).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. Um, they do.)

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