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Solving Challenges for Deeper Learning in Science

Digital Promise

In traditional science classrooms, students are often presented with facts and definitions to memorize, or they are asked to follow a predetermined set of instructions to complete a lab activity. However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best.

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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. About the Presenters. The post Navigating the Shift to OER appeared first on edWeb.

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Wiley to Acquire Knewton’s Assets, Marking an End to an Expensive Startup Journey

Edsurge

Since acquiring Deltak in 2012, the company is now a major player in the online program management (OPM) business, which helps higher-ed institutions run online educational programs. Knewton’s Alta, by contrast, is tapping into openly-licensed, or OER, materials. Both approaches, he believes, could mean lower costs for students.

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On the Relationship Between Free and Permissions in “Open”

Iterating Toward Openness

If not, it’s probably because a definition of open like “free plus permissions” simply asserts that things must be free in order to qualify as OER. OER are free because you have permission to make as many copies as you like. In the meantime, enjoy this classic post from 2012 – 2017: RIP, OER?

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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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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

But it’s also about telling a story, organizing resources for sense-making, interpreting, presenting choices, palettes and dashboards. They analyze, synthesize, and potentially present for a real audience. Curating OER. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. It’s about saving teachers instructional time.

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Students Collaborate on Supporting Bee Populations with Digital Tools

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Mountain Heights Academy in Utah, the 2017 Student Voices Award winner, encourages students to participate in the instructional design process using an OER curriculum. Since the majority of their lessons and assignments are open educational resources (OER) they wanted to license their Operation Bee curriculum as OER.

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