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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.’ Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. call this “the access hypothesis.”
Iterating Toward Openness
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Last week I promised I would write a few posts about reducing friction with regard to OER. In last week’s post I talked about how we’re making it ridiculously easy for students, faculty, and others to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of OER.
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Iterating Toward Openness
OCTOBER 14, 2015
Our typical conversations about the efficacy of educational materials completely miss this critical distinction. Just as there are many sick people experiencing an “insufficient dose or duration of use” because they can’t afford their medicine, there are many students who experience an “insufficient dose or duration of use” of educational materials because they can’t afford them. It certainly would not be accepted in a Tier 1 education journal.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2018
One popular draw to open educational resources is that these openly-licensed learning materials can—and are often encouraged to—be tailored for a particular professor or course. Communications librarian Kristen Hoffman oversees much of the OER work at Seattle Pacific University, a Christian university in Washington. Hoffman recently brought her question to the gathering of open education resource users and advocates at the OpenEd conference in Niagara Falls, NY earlier this month.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 19, 2017
Public schools now provide at least one computer for every five students and spend more than $3 billion per year on digital content, according to Education Week. As momentum for digital learning builds, some districts—80 percent according to the 2017 Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) K12 IT Leadership Survey Report —are using open educational resources (OER), which the U.S. Education Technology Open Educational Resources Technology in School
eSchool News
AUGUST 24, 2017
The curriculum, which has been published as an Open Educational Resource under Creative Commons license CC BY, is available in both digital and print formats at im.openupresources.org. It is the first curriculum made openly available by Open Up Resources, which was founded to develop new high-quality alternatives to curricula offered by traditional publishers, and to increase equity in education by distributing these materials freely, as OER.
Iterating Toward Openness
DECEMBER 18, 2017
Two months ago I invited people to respond to a survey regarding the Open Education Conference and how it can be improved. 139 people responded to the survey, meaning the response rate was (at most) 6.2%. 120 of those respondents chose to license their survey responses cc0 and you can grab their responses here to read, analyze, and blog about. I promised to share with the community what I learned from the surveys and interviews.
NeverEndingSearch
DECEMBER 20, 2017
You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. A series of Read Like a Historian videos prepares educators to effectively launch this type of learning in their classrooms. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
Larsen says this is a common criticism of OER textbooks, particularly among the conventional textbook industry, and he argues that errors in conventional textbooks are also reasonably high—and after all, he adds, the errors in conventional textbooks were the reason he started LibreText in the first place. A Disruptive Approach’ In general, the open education world looks a lot different than it did nearly 10 years ago. Education Technology Higher Education Postsecondary Learning
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. New York, NY: Pearson Education. Education is sharing. Education is Sharing. Truly, education is sharing.
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2018
Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials. When I attend professional gatherings on open education, however, instructors like myself are often the minority. To me, using OER felt like a no-brainer.
Wired Campus
OCTOBER 28, 2015
College technology leaders appear more optimistic these days about open-source textbooks and open educational resources — teaching and learning materials that can be used at no cost. According to the latest Campus Computing Survey of top technology officers at colleges, released on Thursday, 81 percent believe that open educational resources will be an important source for instructional material in the next five years. Green, founding director of the survey.
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. I’d encourage those interested in the OER movement to subscribe to the bi-weekly OER Digest (a joint project of SPARC and the Student PIRGs ) to stay up to date. Blog EdTech News News news OER
NeverEndingSearch
JULY 5, 2017
Back in 2014, our interviews and surveys led us to a taxonomy of digital curation. Curating OER. Lately I’ve been asked to speak about the librarian’s role in supporting OER (open educational resources) implementation through curation and I realize that in the K12 setting, curating and leveraging OER means very different things to district-level administrators, to principals, to department chairs, to teachers and to librarians.
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. I’d encourage those interested in the OER movement to subscribe to the bi-weekly OER Digest (a joint project of SPARC and the Student PIRGs ) to stay up to date. EdTech News News news OER
Bryan Alexander
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
A minority are interested, but the majority prefer traditional (print) materials, with powerful implications for the intersection of technology and higher education. “[One] tenth (11 percent) were using OER materials and 4 percent were currently using OER in their classes and also making their own course materials available as OER.” education and technology
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Via Education Week : “Reorganization of U.S. Lots of Republicans , Few Democrats,” says Education Week. There’s another story on DeVos and virtual schools down in the “online education” section below.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 7, 2016
Among the education highlights: Republican VP candidate Mike Pence made up a name for the university hosting the event. Actually, I think that was the only education highlight. ” “ Clown College Calls National Rash of Rumored Clown Scares ‘Troubling’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Education Politics. Via The Washington Post : “ Education Department slammed for charter school oversight – by its own watchdog office.”
Hack Education
DECEMBER 22, 2017
(National) Education Politics. Various education-related updates – via The New York Times : “How the Republican Tax Plan Uses School Savings to Hurt States.” ” Via Education Week : “Final Tax Bill Keeps Teacher Deduction at $250 , Cuts State and Local Deductions.” More on the Kentucky college in The Chronicle of Higher Education.). State and Local) Education Politics. ” Education in the Courts.
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). The increasing availability, accessibility and quality of OER materials offer districts the opportunity to move away from textbook publishers and develop their own curriculum. The trend has won admirers in the upper echelon of the education system as well.
Digital Promise
MAY 17, 2017
Superintendent Matt Miller and his team set the tone for a meeting that facilitated transparent discussion about challenges in education by asking for open and honest feedback about the opportunities they provide for their students from attendees. How do we ensure equitable access to excellent learning opportunities? The district is also a leader in the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, championing teacher-created content and sharing resources widely.
Shake Up Learning
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Help me better serve you by completing this short, 60-second survey. This survey is your chance to let me know more about you and what you need in 2023. Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started.
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. How do educators engage students and facilitate needed rigor, while providing children ownership of their learning? Keep in mind that as educators, we are where we are!
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. This mandate is carried out chiefly by the funding and broad distribution of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers.
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 survey includes responses from nearly 20,000 college students at 41 four-year and two-year institutions across 20 U.S. A third may be the growth of so-called inclusive-access programs. Education Technology Higher Education
Bryan Alexander
JANUARY 24, 2016
It was a powerful gathering of campus leaders and practitioners, organized around a common focus on liberal education. I helped start the conference with a half-day workshop on “How Technology Can Enhance Liberal Education: The State of the Art in 2016.” This last point has been a major theme in this quadrant of American higher education as far back as the 1990s. Consensus was: next steps, the future of tech and liberal education.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
The ninth annual Global Education Conference starts this coming Monday! This is an amazing and free online event that brings together educators and innovators from around the world. Click here to register to attend the conference live or to have access to the conference recordings afterwards. The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels.
Kitaboo on EdTech
JUNE 13, 2019
Decrease in State Funding: The government has been scaling back on the funding on college education since the great recession of 2008. Post the recession, states cut inflation-adjusted spending on K–12 education by approximately 4% between 2008 and 2013. As per the latest annual survey of state spending by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), state spending per student has declined at public colleges and universities by around 8%.
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2019
Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew).
Hack Education
DECEMBER 6, 2016
” Remember in 2012 when Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun predicted that in fifty years, “there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them”? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? “Long Live Online Higher Education.”
Hack Education
APRIL 13, 2018
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. But for now, here are a couple of education-related stories: one from Education Week and from Edsurge. Board of Education and it barely registered as a story. ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
The service can distribute open educational resources, or OER, textbooks that are available to professors and students for free. A survey issued to students this fall shows that 89 percent of respondents said they were moderately or very satisfied with the platform.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 28, 2016
Via Education Week ): “ Hillary Clinton Campaign Releases $500 Million Anti-Bullying Plan.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “For Some Republicans, Trump ’s Higher-Ed Proposals Reflect ‘Lost Opportunity’ ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Trump Threatens Visas for Those From China.” ” Education Politics. Via NPR : “The Return Of Bilingual Education In California ?” Education in the Courts.
Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 29, 2016
Yesterday EdSurge published an opinion piece by Stephen Laster, the Chief Digital Officer at McGraw-Hill Education, titled The Future of Education Isn’t Free. I enthusiastically and wholeheartedly endorse this message – interoperability of platforms, tools, and resources is absolutely critical to education becoming significantly more effective – and significantly less annoying – in the future. The Smallest Possible Review of “Open” in Education.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
(National) Education Politics. US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos launched a “rethink schools” tour. ” “What DeVos Got Wrong in Her Speech on the ’ Dear Colleague’ Letter ,” Scott Schneider writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education. State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education. Education in the Courts. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ U. ” asks Education Week.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 28, 2017
Community colleges are known for innovating to meet the challenges of educating some of the nation’s most disadvantaged students: low-income, first-generation, minority, and adult learners. I spoke with biology instructor Kathy Watkins and Associate Dean of STEM Bruce Johnson about how CPCC is hoping to transform a biology survey class using adaptive technology. We also replaced the $150 textbook we were using with open education resources (OER).
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
(National) Education Politics. “15 Ways Taylor Swift ’s Lyrics Solve Education Policy ’s Most Pressing Issues” is, no doubt, the most godawful white lady thing I’ve seen this week in education news. More on the Republicans’ tax plans – Via Education Week : “New Senate Tax Plan Doubles Teachers’ Deduction for Buying Classroom Supplies.” State and Local) Education Politics. ” asks Education Dive.
Hack Education
JUNE 24, 2016
Education Politics. Many in higher education opposed a British exit, or Brexit, from the union, arguing that membership in the E.U. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “With two executive orders, Gov. That’s what former Department of Education folks, Arne Duncan and Jim Shelton, have done. And of course current Undersecretary of Education, Ted Mitchell, is a former VC.) ” Education in the Courts. Nice work, Education Dive.
Iterating Toward Openness
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
Our typical conversations about the efficacy of educational materials completely miss this critical distinction. Just as there are many sick people experiencing an “insufficient dose or duration of use” because they can’t afford their medicine, there are many students who experience an “insufficient dose or duration of use” of educational materials because they can’t afford them. Florida Student Textbook Survey , p.
Hack Education
AUGUST 31, 2018
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the massive review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Disaster-Stricken Colleges Will Get $63 Million in Aid From the Education Dept.” ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education.
Hack Education
JUNE 23, 2017
(National) Education Politics. ” Via Bloomberg : “ Campus Rape Loses Special Status in Trump’s Education Department.” ” Via The Washington Post : “ Education Dept. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Summer Pell Grants will be available to students beginning July 1, the Department of Education announced Monday.” More via The Hill and via the Department of Education’s press office. State and Local) Education Politics.
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. Students will be able to search for general education online courses across campuses, by general education category, by mode of delivery, and by the ‘ Zero Degree ’ approach,” explains Otte. Education Technology Higher Education Postsecondary Learning Courses Fully-Online School
Hack Education
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
Education Politics. Betsy DeVos has been confirmed as the Secretary of Education – the first time that a Vice President has had to break a tie in the Senate for this sort of vote. See also, via Market Watch : “ K12 ’s stock rallies after DeVos confirmed as Secretary of Education.” Via The Hechinger Report : “Why Betsy DeVos ’ vision of education does little to ensure equity.” Education in the Courts.
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