Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

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. But while many benefits of OER are visible on the surface, we must notice the fine print.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. Learners will read about and discuss rules, decision-making and how to socialize in the classroom. para Student Dashboard Digital Backpack gives learners one-click access to digital textbooks and other learning resources.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2017

Easier access to performance data across multiple learning solutions? When considering these questions, it’s also critical to think about interoperability and how different digital systems can be fully integrated and work together, even if they are built by different companies. Increased student engagement?

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 23, 2018

By definition, open educational resources (OER) are licensed in a manner that gives you permission to change, update, and improve them. Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

This gap between the need and available educational services has prompted calls for innovative ways to improve access to quality educational resources. Department of Education that establish learning achievement goals for math and literacy. Introduce open licensing.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

With digital textbooks, students learn how to use technology responsibly and pull information from a variety of digital sources. Digital textbooks teach students how to self-direct their own learning by using note-taking and highlighting tools. There are several high-quality OER sites that feature digital textbooks for K-12.

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Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

What I do want to comment on (in greater than 140 characters) is the practice of ‘openwashing:’ what it is, why I believe not being able to go beyond a pro-OER elephant test for organizations and service providers is untenable in practice, and some thoughts on what we can do about it. The Pro-OER Elephant Test.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. Stop buying lesson plans and worksheets and access the wonderful free resources available to you! para, where he explains how PBL and OER go hand-in-hand. . Where do teachers find OER? .

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

When you teach digital citizenship, you teach learners how to use the internet responsibly. Digital access : Advocating for learners, families and staff members to have equitable access to technology, digital resources and the internet. Digital etiquette : Teaching learners about how to use the internet in positive ways.

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ProfHacker

APRIL 4, 2017

The concept of “Open,” particularly when it comes to Open Access, is something that we’ve written a lot about here at Profhacker. What I really like about this book is that it takes a really broad approach to open, including Open Pedagogy, Open Teaching, Open Access, and Open Data.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2015

In a letter sent earlier this month, a group of ed-tech stakeholders urged the Obama administration to make federally-funded educational materials available as Open Educational Resources (OER). The letter was a response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s request for suggestions around how to strengthen the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

The teacher was able to stop with her group, quickly pull up an example problem on her device, project it on the screen and demonstrate to the whole class how to solve it. Vivi has made her more flexible in how she teaches and how she interacts with groups within her classroom. Has there been an impact on student engagement?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Jess Mitchell, senior manager of research and design at the Inclusive Design Research Centre , posed the question on Wednesday to a group of around 850 educators, librarians and other open-access enthusiasts at Lumen Learning’s OpenEd conference in Niagara Falls, NY.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This approach improves access and learning as well when students play a role in the design of content, said some of the chat participants. People deserve to choose when, where and how to study.” People deserve to choose when, where and how to study. The #DLNchat community concurred. A3: mobile compatibility is a must.

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K12 Open Ed

JANUARY 6, 2017

The folks at the Indiana Department of Education’s elearning group are working on an OER #GoOpen initiative, which includes a series of Twitter chats (#INeLearn). After this chat, I was struck by how important TRUST is to open learning, and again, how OER doesn’t necessarily have to coincide with open learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

His work has shown him that “it will definitely be a more sustainable initiative if it is collaborative—-whether it's OER, open access journals, etc.if OERs are often undervalued compared to their paid counterparts, posited Blake Gore of Vanderbilt University and Tanya Spilovy thinks librarians can help.

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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. Therefore, I had the simple mission of writing an openly-licensed textbook that not only addressed my students’ learning needs, but would be accessible to anyone.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

Are they denied access? Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER. It wraps pre-assessments, in situ formative assessments, and summative assessments around OER. Like Waymaker, OHM wraps these and other features around OER. Are they denied access?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. The question we pondered was how to preserve these gains as teachers modified BHP courses, and specific lessons evolved over time. The challenge of using OER in the classroom is not just finding good content, but instilling good practices.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Yesterday IHE published an article about the “ inclusive access ” programs offered by most major textbook publishers. ” What problem does the inclusive access model purport to solve? . And obviously, both inclusive access and OER are about solving the cost problem. Can you see it?

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2021

It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. P.S. I also have a README that tells how to do it. We are often told that the most important purpose of being open is to increase access. It is possible with great effort, but there are a number of problems.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

BBookX uses artificial intelligence to create OER texts for professors to use in their courses instead of traditional textbooks. More Human’ Another idea Bowen and Sparrow are working on right now is how to use AI to evaluate audio recordings of classroom lectures to provide feedback to instructors.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

Amazon officials took down the offending content and pledged to quickly put a review system in place, but in the meantime they restricted access to the service to a select group of beta testers and the site fell off the radar for about a year. Then in July 2017 Amazon tried again, announcing a public beta version of Inspire.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning. We don’t have to be enrolled in his class to access it. I’ve ordered your book as well. Someone who agrees with my perspective on not reading many books about online classes is Michelle Pacansky-Brock.

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Say, for example, that I want all my students to have access to the learning materials for my course, forever. Say, for example, that I have adopted OER instead of a commercial textbook for my class. I want all my students to have access to the learning materials for the course, forever. If I am, please do so!

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Teacher librarians also show young people how to curate around their own interests and how to create launchpads to manage their information worlds. Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Commit to Ensuring Equity in Access and Opportunity. Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

For more inspiration, check out these posts: We Are Teachers: Teachers are Creating Virtual Bitmoji Classrooms Bitmoji Classroom Tutorials (Jenny Murphy) How to Create a Virtual Bitmoji Scene in Google Slides or PowerPoints (Shana Ramin). These two excellent tutorials will help you get started: by Thomas Blakemore. by EZ EdTech! Valenza, J.K.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For some folks in higher ed, the very idea of using open educational resources (OER) sparks dread. The right OER provides professors opportunities to teach the latest research and even make areas like math and science more inclusive. EdSurge: Why are you such a proponent of OER in higher ed? Here’s how I look at it.

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Bring back the conference track on Accessibility and OER. Have more concrete sessions on how to find OER and how to put together a course using OER. Provide better access to presenter slides and other materials before and after the event. Keynote speakers shouldn’t have breakout sessions.

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K12 Open Ed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

To be clear, I am not talking about open educational resources (OER), but rather open learning practices. (Is Transparency and open access. To me, open learning is about learning how to learn, how to think, how to design, how to iterate, and how to collaborate. Open learning? Open pedagogy?

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We have a similar problem in the open educational resources (OER) space. Many people are in the habit of referring to OER as a commons. OER are not like the shared resources at the center of traditional commons. If either of these conditions come to pass, everyone loses access to the shared resources and we all lose the game.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

It’s not that the publishers don’t know how to digitize materials,” he adds. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’” Top Hat is “partially becoming a publisher—the thing that they’ve long wanted to compete with,” observes Phil Hill, an education industry analyst and consultant.

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Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

In summary, their results suggested “no noticeable improvement” in standardized test scores (PISA) for reading, mathematics, or science in countries that heavily invested in classroom technology; thus, they do not believe expanding access to high-tech devices (1:1 Chromebook programs) will abate falling test scores. .

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User Generated Education

JULY 26, 2015

The educator as a resource implies that the s/he has multiple skill sets: expertise in the process of learning and expertise in how to navigate online environments along with the ability to mentor learners using these skill sets. There is an assumption that young people are digitally savvy and know how to use emerging technology.

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Connecting 2 the World

JULY 27, 2022

Sessions in Creating an Accessible Syllabus, Global OER, Entangled Pedagogy and Liberating Structures may at first seem totally different. For both students and faculty, many people needed to find videos that would explain how to use the technology. But my mind is always trying to find links and common threads.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 31, 2020

I’m going to write a post or three about some of the friction that exists around using OER. There are some things about working with OER that are just harder or more painful than they need to be, and getting more people actively involved in using OER will require us to reduce or eliminate those points of friction.

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