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!”

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OER Outcomes Comparison Study 159

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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. Source: EdSurge.

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OER Data Tools Trends 91

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

CUNY 2016 Student Experience Survey , 21 percent of the system’s community college students were not able to take required courses, most citing “lack of seat availability” as the reason. There are plans to add web-based registration, orientation, attendance services, and a more expansive OER library before 2020. According to the.

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Course OER Comparison Survey 60

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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