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

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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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New Posted Resources 10/11/2011

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?Teachers Can Now Use IBM’s Watson to Search for Free Lesson Plans

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IBM’s famous Watson computing system—which defeated Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings in 2011—is coming to education, if not quite the classroom. Populating the search engine is a collection of more than 1,000 OERs—from sources such as Achieve, UnboundED and statewide orgs like EngageNY—hand-selected by math experts assisting the program.

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Thinking About Impact

Iterating Toward Openness

In the spirit of iterating toward openness, I’ve recently had the opportunity to revisit some of my earlier thinking about how to measure the impact of OER-related work. I have previously written about metrics I call the educational golden ratio and the OER impact factor. of students passed the course.

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

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2011) Evolving the Virtual School Library, Part 1: Deconstructing My Own Interface. I thought quite a bit about how important this virtual presence was to me over the course of 25 years. Valenza, J.K. TechLearning. Valenza, J.K. It’d be Really Dumb Not to Use It.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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Founded in 2011, Smart Sparrow had raised about $23.5 Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. Ben-Naim says the acquisition by Pearson could “affect the plan,” which was to build OER content on Smart Sparrow. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018.

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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. Most faculty don’t have the technical expertise, the time, or the institutional support to manage their own WordPress installation or do anything more with OER than adopt a free PDF in place of their textbook.

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