2015 Libraries OER Study 
Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 31, 2022
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!”
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
NOVEMBER 2, 2014
I took some time to look over my past posts and decided I needed to provide Social Studies Teachers with some great resources for their classroom. Rather than get into any one specific Social Studies area, I thought best to find some resources that might work in just about any Social Studies Classroom.
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Iterating Toward Openness
OCTOBER 14, 2015
Ray Henderson (@readmeray) October 14, 2015. When students who can’t afford their textbooks have to borrow them from friends or check them out from the library, they’re likely receiving an insufficient dose or duration of use. The questions themselves that are asked and answered in the case studies are quite reasonable.
Edsurge
AUGUST 18, 2016
In 2014, I wrote about strategies for edtech success in the new school year , and in 2015, I wrote about edtech teaching trends for the new school year. Another student could find photographs of places or inventions he wants to study and then create augmented reality-triggered videos of himself explaining what he’s learned.
Edsurge
JULY 25, 2019
That's an all-time high, and a big increase since the fall of 2015, when only 3 percent of students reported downloading free course materials. That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites.
Kitaboo on EdTech
JUNE 13, 2019
According to NBC’s review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, textbook prices have risen over 3 times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a whopping 1,041% increase. As per a study, 65% of students have skipped buying required textbooks at some point. Provide Access to K-12 Libraries.
Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 13, 2017
Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.
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