Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks. These publisher platforms can have real benefits.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

The initiative intends to create degree pathways with courses that only use open educational resources, known as OER, so students don’t have to spend money on class materials. College of the Canyons’ history with OER starts before Anagnonson’s dabble, however. Using OER in those courses, she added, “really started out of necessity.”

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

These OER – open educational resources – may be good, bad or indifferent. There’s more bad OER out there than good; that’s a fact,” said Rebecca Kockler, assistant superintendent of academic instruction for the state of Louisiana, at the annual SXSWedu conference last week in Austin, Texas. Using OER wasn’t our goal,” Kockler said.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

New and traditional publishers are trying to offer alternatives such as open educational resources (OER), or freely downloadable and adaptable learning materials. But some providers of OER still ask for fees in return, and that has advocates concerned. In 2017, Top Hat nabbed $7.5 Edward Watson.

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IT Bill

JUNE 27, 2017

The June issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL) is dedicated to Open Educational Resources (OER). Several of the studies focus specifically on OER and student learning outcomes. Certainly one of the main advantages of adopting OER is lowering the costs to students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2017

MENLO PARK, CA [August 24, 2017] — Open Up Resources, the nonprofit provider of openly licensed curriculum for K–12 schools, has released its first openly licensed core program, the Illustrative Mathematics 6–8 Math curriculum. schools, the curriculum is now available for free to school districts.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition). Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Your school or district can also use digital textbooks that are part of open educational resource (OER) repositories. There are several high-quality OER sites that feature digital textbooks for K-12. You can save money to use in other high-need learning areas. These resources are free to use and available to any school or district.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The startup’s origins trace back to Stanford University, where Yavne and Yael Haramaty, Tailor-ED's co-founder and chief technology officer, met as students in spring 2017. A schoolwide version is available with additional data analysis, customized content integration and professional development workshops.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 1, 2017

July 1, 2017 A couple of months ago we shared a collection of some of the best websites that offer open digital textbooks (e.g. OER Commons, Open Textbook Library, MERLOT, TextBookGo, Bookboon.etc).read read more.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. To answer this question, I have to examine my own experience with OER and its advocates. To me, using OER felt like a no-brainer. Many working in open education praised me for being so involved in the movement as an educator dealing with OER on the ground.

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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.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2018

After reviewing instructional materials rated as Tier 1 standards-aligned resources by the Louisiana Department of Education, we decided to try Open Up Resources 6–8 Math , an open educational resource (OER) authored by Illustrative Mathematics (IM). In fall 2017, we formed teacher committees and solicited feedback.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Text question from Ed Finn: OER Game Changer – Moodle Community could separate it from Canvas and Blackboard who keep these types of sharing resources behind a wall. — Mark Corbett Wilson (@MCorbettWilson) July 13, 2017. I’d like to reproduce them here, edited very lightly. Does that debate interest you at all?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 1, 2017

June 1, 2017 Back with another excellent resource from OER Commons. This is basically a collection featuring over 4000 free resources aligned to the Common Core. Teachers can use, share and even.read more.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

Open educational resources (OER) have saved students at the University of Georgia (UGA) nearly $2 million in textbook costs alone over the past three years. Rather than roll out a broad campaign to promote OER on campus, the center is focused on working with individual faculty members who teach large enrollment courses, Watson says.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

If not, it’s probably because a definition of open like “free plus permissions” simply asserts that things must be free in order to qualify as OER. OER are free because you have permission to make as many copies as you like. In the meantime, enjoy this classic post from 2012 – 2017: RIP, OER?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 9, 2017

May 9, 2017 Open Education Resources (OER) Commons is a platform that provides open access to a wide variety of open educational resources that are either in the public domain or are licensed under.read more.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

And around 2017, publishers including Pearson that once used Knewton began to pull back. Knewton’s Alta, by contrast, is tapping into openly-licensed, or OER, materials. The claims attracted plenty of skeptics, like Hill’s partner at e-Literate, Michael Feldstein, who once called Knewton “ snake oil.”

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

Even though Pearson is not cutting out print completely, its digital-first update strategy may still alienate some faculty, says Wiley, who is currently the chief academic officer of Lumen Learning, a company that provides digital OER courseware to colleges and universities. “It It doesn’t matter what a publisher wants to sell.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 17, 2017

May 17, 2017 In the last few weeks we shared with you a number of interesting free resources from OER Commons that you can use in your class for a wide variety of instructional materials (see.read more.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

The bill will phase in clearinghouse courses over two phases, with the first phase beginning in the 2017-18 school year. House Bill 1915, which would establish a clearinghouse of federally approved online courses for students in grades 6 to 12, garnered unanimous support in the House Education Committee on Monday. image via AP ].

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 29, 2017

During the final day of ISTE 2017 , I spent some time perusing the Exhibit Hall in between a great workshop on building digital portfolios with Google Sites and a session on using Open Educational Resources (OER). So, there were fewer tweets yesterday, and the majority of them were from the OER session.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

Now benefits like those cost reductions and higher student success rates are prompting the school to roll out more Z-degrees programs and extend its partnership with Lumen Learning by piloting next-generation adaptive OER courseware. But Tidewater doesn’t have plans for total conversion to OER, despite the benefits.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. The most recent data NACS has on the latter behavior is from the fall of 2017, when 4 percent of respondents reported obtaining materials through illegal downloads.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

Then in July 2017 Amazon tried again, announcing a public beta version of Inspire. Peters says that some states ended up deciding to pick other platforms, like OER Commons , in their efforts to organize and review open materials created or used by their teachers. But some states have decided to stick with Amazon Inspire.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

The State appropriations per full-time student have fallen from an inflation-adjusted $8,489 in 2007 to $7,642 in 2017. The overall state funding for public two- and four-year colleges in the 2017 school year was nearly $9 billion below its 2008 level, after adjusting for inflation. These are basically free.

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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. Reiser & J.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

Mike Berlin: At the beginning of every year, experts proclaim that this is going to be the year of OER, and each year market forces and a lack of solutions with product-market fit have resulted in that prediction not coming true. Paul Freedman: There will be twice as many in 2018 as there were in 2017.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

A Debate on “Open” Educational Resources : Can free and open educational resources (OER) save students money without compromising their content or value? Higher Ed 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 15, 2017

When I was at the Domains 2017 conference earlier this summer, Jon Udell issued a challenge – what are you doing to help the fight again digital polarization, “fake news,” and general media illiteracy? One of the main challenges to adoption of DiPo was that it was in wiki format, which can be a technical barrier.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Text question from Ed Finn: OER Game Changer – Moodle Community could separate it from Canvas and Blackboard who keep these types of sharing resources behind a wall. — Mark Corbett Wilson (@MCorbettWilson) July 13, 2017. I’d like to reproduce them here, edited very lightly. Does that debate interest you at all?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Called Aero , the platform has been in the works since 2017. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. Ben-Naim says the acquisition by Pearson could “affect the plan,” which was to build OER content on Smart Sparrow. Pearson officials did not respond in time for the story.

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