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An Accidental, Systematic Attack on OER Sustainability Models

Iterating Toward Openness

However, inclusive access and equitable access aren’t the only models that automatically charge students a fee for their course materials. Many institutions charge students a fee associated with their OER courses as a way of funding the institutions’ OER efforts.

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Reflections on a Conversation about a US National Open Education Policy

Iterating Toward Openness

The sense I got is that reducing textbook costs isn’t enough anymore, the advocacy has moved on to eliminating them. For many years now what people call OER advocacy has actually been “zero textbook cost” advocacy. The US Department of Education’s Open Textbooks Pilot program is a great example.

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PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says

The Hechinger Report

Absenteeism matters, of course, because students don’t learn as much when they’re not in school. Alabama, the example I cited above, was one of 11 states where taking attendance was up to the discretion of local officials. I don’t think so,” said Chang. That’s got to be an undercount.”. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Online Education Advocacy Group Launches as Dept. of Ed Proposes Loosening Regulations

Edsurge

In a joint statement , the council’s members advocate that “online learning involves the careful and deliberate development and implementation of courses and programs that are designed to be offered online. Online [learning] has this perceived close association with for-profit education. And for-profit education in the U.S.

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Why We Should Expand Our OER Advocacy to Commercial Publishers

Iterating Toward Openness

Effective Advocacy. This has been the core of the open source software advocacy strategy – not appeals to altruism, and certainly not moralizing grandstanding – but a rational, self-interested explanation of why a business would benefit from adopting the open source model. What would higher education do in fall 2021?

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OER / ZTC Advocates Have an AI Problem

Iterating Toward Openness

At some point over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) advocacy in US higher education became zero textbook costs (ZTC) advocacy. This is why I refer to this line of advocacy as “free no matter the cost.” There are plenty of practical reasons why this might have happened.

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More Than Half of High Schools Offer Computer Science, But Access Isn’t Equal

Edsurge

That’s according to the 2021 State of Computer Science report jointly released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. Students who attend those schools don’t even have the opportunity to take a course if they wanted to.”