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Navigating the Shift to OER

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Keys to the OER shift: – Community buy-in: The community wasn’t satisfied with the achievement levels and graduation rates. – Vetted OER materials: For every subject, K-12 teachers have a stockbook of vetted OER lessons. This article was modified and published by EdScoop. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Toward Renewable Assessments

Iterating Toward Openness

Our collective goals were to bring a selection of articles on Latin American literature to featured article status (or as near as possible). By project’s end, we had contributed three featured articles and eight good articles. None of these articles was a good article at the outset; two did not even exist.

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Guide to Quality Instructional Resources Focuses on the Process, not the Purchase

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But with the rise of OER, growing use of supplemental resources over core textbooks, and the increasing flexibility of state funding, more purchasing decisions have moved to the school and district level. In addition, there is a separate section on vetting OER. A change in policy to allow recommended programs to include OER.

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Do We Need a National Open Education Strategy?

Iterating Toward Openness

Flat World Knowledge began publishing “open textbooks” in 2007, and Connexions at Rice changed their name to OpenStax and started publishing open textbooks in 2012. Of course innovation with OER didn’t actually stop with openly licensed traditional textbooks. And that’s essentially where innovation stopped.

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Why We Should Expand Our OER Advocacy to Commercial Publishers

Iterating Toward Openness

Here’s another hint: they haven’t created a new open textbook since 2012. There would be huge benefits to the OER ecosystem if we made similar arguments with commercial publishers, helping them understand why switching to an OER model would be good for their business. Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model.

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The design and future of open education: Curtis Bonk on Future Trends Forum

Bryan Alexander

However, most people remain unaware of OER. More information can be found on Bonk’s free MOOC information page and in this co-authored article. Coda three: Vanessa Vaile pointed us to a 2012 Inside Higher Ed article on Bonk and MOOCs. I followed up with a question about free as incentive.

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State and District Leadership Discuss Digital Learning Opportunities

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This article was modified and published by EdScoop. Recent publications and projects include Navigating the Digital Shift, Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States, OER Case Studies: Implementation in Action, The Broadband Imperative and From Data to Information. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.