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!”
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2017
With course materials averaging around $1,200 per year , many colleges over the past decade have adopted open educational resources (OER) to cut costs for students. One review offers evidence that students using OER as their primary course material sometimes perform better.) This isn’t uncommon.
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Iterating Toward Openness
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
Several years ago I was speaking about OER at a conference in Virginia. There was a great feeling in the room, and though I hadn’t planned to speak about the topic, I felt prompted to end my remarks by stating that enough OER now existed that an entire degree program could be run on OER. That was in September of 2012.
Shake Up Learning
MARCH 8, 2022
Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. para, where he explains how PBL and OER go hand-in-hand. . What are Open Educational Resources (OER)? In 2015, the Department of Education at the federal level enacted an initiative called Go Open.
Iterating Toward Openness
OCTOBER 14, 2015
Ray Henderson (@readmeray) October 14, 2015. The ways in which educational materials are used greatly influences their impact on student outcomes. I believe we’re seeing this same effect across OER adoptions, and have labeled it the Remix Hypothesis. That’s a fight I know OER can win.
Iterating Toward Openness
APRIL 17, 2017
In 2012 Kim Thanos and I founded Lumen Learning because, through our Gates-funded work on the Kaleidoscope Project, we had seen first-hand how hard it was for faculty to replace publisher materials with OER. It seemed like lots of people wanted to publish and share their own OER, but no one wanted to use anyone else’s.
Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 12, 2015
See Efficacy, the Golden Ratio, and the OER Impact Factor.). As we conduct original research and review the literature on empirical impacts on student outcomes when faculty make a displacing adoption, we’re beginning to see an interesting trend. I doubt it will come down; it will likely only rise higher.
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