eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

As schools and districts try to reduce textbook costs and digitize instructional resources, one of the struggles many teachers have is finding good repositories of open education resources (OER). The first step is to know how to access OER resources. Accessing OER. How to find OER.

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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. Digital textbooks are also easily updated across the school district since teachers and learners access them online.

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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. Wiley—which looked at almost 5,000 undergraduates using OER at ten colleges and universities. This isn’t uncommon.

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OER Data Outcomes Study 87

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. Edward Watson.

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OER Company Adaptive Learning Resources 65

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

This material was created by David Wiley and you can download, edit and share it for free under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 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.

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OER LMS Pearson System 60

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Back in February, an EdWeek Market brief reported that Amazon Education was starting to beta-test a new platform with educators, helping teachers navigate the jungles of open educational resources (or OERs, for short). At the moment, the platform is free but requires an access code.

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OER Resources Education Software 110

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. Here’s the good news: Our government edtech officials are convinced that librarians should play a role in curating the burgeoning number of open educational resources (they gave us several shout-outs and ensured we were there).

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OER Edmodo E-rate Libraries 40

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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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Many kids are online every day, so it’s important for educators to help them stay safe and develop healthy boundaries with technology. Digital access : Advocating for learners, families and staff members to have equitable access to technology, digital resources and the internet. Download the free e-book 3.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Elementary OER 274

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Be on the look out for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Standards make up the general knowledge of what educators want students to know.

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Hapara

APRIL 11, 2022

K-12 schools and districts turn to open educational resources (OER) for their flexibility. When you search for OER, you can find already-created lesson plans or other resources to add to your own class plans. Let’s look at the benefits of using an OER lesson plan and what it looks like. Why use an OER lesson plan?

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OER Differentiated Instruction Hapara Assessment 283

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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), one of the 12 partner organizations of Every Learner Everywhere, was charged with identifying and understanding innovations in the digital education landscape. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 191

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

To my mind, this commitment demonstrates a level of maturity that the open education side of the open house has yet to achieve. Now compare what you just imagined to the state of open education today. For many in our community, for-profit organizations have no business (pun intended) being involved in open education in any way.

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OER Pearson Microsoft Education 60

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Last summer the world’s largest online retailer launched Amazon Inspire, touting it as a hub for educators to exchange lesson plans and other Open Education Resources. Some wonder when it will be open to the wider education community (and what the company’s broader education strategy is). Department of Education.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

tl;dr – In order to be relevant today and in the future, a national open education strategy must (1) know exactly what it is trying to accomplish and (2) deeply integrate generative AI. WICHE is convening a series of conversations this week and next titled, “ Do We Need a National Open Education Strategy?

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 28, 2017

Offering a familiar, filtered Amazon search/shopping interface, Inspire allows educators to discover, download, curate and share Open Educational Resources (OER). Amazon retreated into a private beta only available to those with a special access code. (I I could not get a code.:-(). Sample collection.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

In this post I would like to introduce you to way that you can ensure the standards are amplified, and not ignored, by the integration of educational technology. Check out this wonderful magazine for some great K12 educational articles, I will be presenting at Alan November’s BLC in Boston in July.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2018

As the title of the document makes explicit, the framework aims to contribute to the conversation about the sustainability of OER: “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship” It’s a valuable contribution to that conversation. I struggle to see how this will be possible.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. Central Valley is one of several Beaver County school districts finding ways to supplement or completely replace paper textbooks with online materials such as eBooks, downloadable apps and openly licensed educational resources.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

She’s enthusiastic about accessing Open Up Resources’ materials on the Kiddom platform. “By We want educators to see how it connects with students and see the impact that curriculum makes on learning outcomes,” she adds. That’s why the partnership with Kiddom is important. It brings the analytics to understand who we’re serving.”

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Resources OER Academic Standards Instructional Materials 77

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Welcome to number four in a series of four posts bringing you over 150 amazing resources for STEM education. FETC 2019 – How does Orlando in January sound for an educational conference? Please take a moment to share this post with fellow educators with a tweet. Check it out if you have not had a chance! My calendar is filling.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

PLUS we'll immediately send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 10 websites, 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He holds an M.Ed

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

You can right click and download a copy. Download the transcript. This means that you can write your own textbooks, share them, or use them as you would any other OER or open education resource. What is the Mathematical Association of America and what K12 resources can I access? Transcript for Episode 114 .

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , “Digital Curriculum Development: The Missing Time-Saving Link,” Daniel Ralyea, Director of the Office of Research and Data Analysis at the South Carolina Department of Education, and Mark T. What’s out in the digital education realm now that shows promise for future enhancements? Just a dream? Not really.

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The Daring Librarian

MARCH 19, 2020

That post is pretty school and district specific but I thought I could post over here some resources from our national education partners like PBS Learning Works, Capstone, PebbleGo, MackinVia, and Scholastic. Please note that I a Middle Grades (ages 10-14) and Young Adult specific educator and not Primary or Elementary.

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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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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

The overall cost of higher education has been continuously increasing, as is evident by the rise in the textbook prices. But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? What Is a Subscription Model? a semester.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

A professor of educational technology at the British Open University, he has been an advocate of openness in education for many years, but he expresses doubts over the outcome of the battle. This marks a moment of victory for the open education movement, but at the same time the real battle for the direction of openness begins.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

srcid=0B6dF7rWxc-5aMGMyanRsMW5DbzQ&pid=explorer&efh=false&a=v&chrome=false&embedded=true Find Apps for Chromebook - great resource to find apps to use with Chromebooks [link] A great list of Apps and Extensions for Education https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xDrYNfAPlLY-2Y7kbL_ADBfVePYmREbNXXV_fyTh5LM/mobilebasic?pli=1

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Let’s take a look at ways digital textbooks enhance K-12 education. You can find these digital textbooks on open educational resource (OER) sites. These are free for educators to use and are available across subjects and grade levels. . Learners simply need to log in to their learning system to access them. .

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Hapara OER Online Assessments Differentiated Instruction 130

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Now that the book is appearing in print, I’m publishing the full-text chapter here so that there will be an easier-to-access open access version of the chapter available online. The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

This October, two open education pioneers are teaming up to pilot a new edX course titled “ Introduction to Open Education ” with hopes to amplify and answer some of these questions. The six-week long MOOC will touch on topics including open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy and practice, open knowledge and open research.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

For educators that may mean working with students in a face to face, elearning, or a blended environment. In this time of Coronavirus challenges, I want the opportunity to share thoughts, ideas, and questions that I hope are helpful to all of those amazing educators that are doing so much for our students. Read the article.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. That much I agree with.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Join the 4,000 others who have already registered to participate or watch the recordings now and we'll also send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, 10 websites, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future. He holds an M.Ed

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. That much I agree with.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150