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OER Cost Savings and Adoption Rates: New Methodologies, New Data, and New Results

Iterating Toward Openness

At the OpenEd Conference in 2013, Nicole Allen and I challenged the OER community to save students one billion dollars. Below I present the results of some exploratory data analysis intended to answer basic questions. The overall average price for all OER (both OER Only and OER Hybrid) is $17.32. OER Hybrid.

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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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Self as OER

ProfHacker

This post is based on a presentation Suzan and Maha gave this year at the OER16 conference in Edinburgh. When we look at common definitions of Open Educational Resources or OERs (e.g., When we look at common definitions of Open Educational Resources or OERs (e.g., You can read it here ! Slideshare available here.

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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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GlobalEdCon 13 - Final Day + Global Education Declaration

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Today is the final day of our five-day 2013 Global Education Conference. Information about certificates for volunteers, presenters, and attendees is here. A step-by-step guide to getting started is also available here. If you are looking to extend your conference experience, here are some ideas.

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Network technology, disruptive innovation and the future of higher education

Mark Smithers

This is the invited presentation that I gave at the launch of the SAFFIRE project at the University of Canberra on Monday 18 March, 2013. I considered issues around MOOCs and then other disruptors which may, in fact, have more impact such as OER, open badges and social professional reputation.

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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.