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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

This article started out with my being bothered by the fact that ‘OER adoption reliably saves students money but does not reliably improve their outcomes.’ ’ For many years OER advocates have told faculty, “When you adopt OER your students save money and get the same or better outcomes!”

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Pearson, Efficacy, Credibility, and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Ray Henderson (@readmeray) October 14, 2015. I believe we’re seeing this same effect across OER adoptions, and have labeled it the Remix Hypothesis. Efficacy and Comparisons. That’s a fight I know OER can win. It’s also why OER effectiveness research needs to be putting its very best foot forward.

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Are K-12 Curriculum Tools a Smart Investment? What Investors and Our Data Say

Edsurge

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning.

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