Edsurge
APRIL 19, 2022
These days low-cost alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, are getting a boost as a potential solution. Last week, for example, Lumen Learning, a company that sells low-cost OER textbooks and courseware, announced it received a $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.
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.
Edsurge
JANUARY 22, 2020
31, 2020 , and the platform will likely shutter before then, says Ben-Naim, who adds that he and a small staff will help customers transition and move their content to another platform. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. Flash will be sunsetted on Dec.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
She’s enthusiastic about accessing Open Up Resources’ materials on the Kiddom platform. “By Both executives said more specific pricing will be finalized in 2020. “We want something that could house student data in one place, along with curriculum and standards, where it could be easily searchable,” says Dendtler.
Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 12, 2015
Publisher’s refusal to sell copies of educational materials, now only allowing students to access educational materials as long as they are subscribed , wages a war on private ownership of property. See Efficacy, the Golden Ratio, and the OER Impact Factor.). See The Access Compromise and the 5th R.).
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