Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2017
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.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
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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NeverEndingSearch
MAY 14, 2020
We need strategies for personalizing and enriching the remote learning experience. Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. I started playing around with the fairly easy and recently very popular strategy of building a library scene in Slides.
Iterating Toward Openness
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
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.
Iterating Toward Openness
OCTOBER 30, 2017
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.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
FEBRUARY 11, 2011
Join me today, February 11th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Wayne Mackintosh on designing an "Open Educational Resources" (OER) university and creating free learning for all students worldwide. Wayne is a strategy innovator with a passion for making educational futures happen.
Dangerously Irrelevant
JUNE 20, 2015
The issues from our 2011 Iowa, Did You Know? like some states and districts, we created open access textbooks and taught teachers how to curate open educational resources (OER), thus freeing up textbook monies for other purposes? Students might not be getting the technology skills they need either. video still persist. Bottom line.
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