Iterating Toward Openness
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Recently I’ve been doing both more thinking and more roll-up-your-sleeves working on continuous improvement of OER. And this process of making OER more effective every semester – also known as “continuous improvement” – is where we see some of the most exciting opportunities to collaborate with faculty.
Edsurge
JUNE 18, 2020
But OER advocates think open access course materials hold another kind of promise for students, too. They can with OER materials. Contrast doing something and revising quickly with a textbook company that spends seven years to devise a textbook and hopes to hell that it works.” It’s totally within our capability to do it.”
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 30, 2019
At that time, the company only offered math materials for grades three to six. A schoolwide version is available with additional data analysis, customized content integration and professional development workshops. Avraham Kadar, Elevate Education, Emerge Education, FreshFund, Y Combinator and other angel investors also participated.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2019
And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Some professors have aesthetic objections to OER materials. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Because most U.S.
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.
Iterating Toward Openness
JUNE 30, 2017
In a recent webinar about OER, organized by one of the major textbook publishers, there was a lot of conversation about whether OER are “free” or “affordable.” Before I begin though, just to be clear, allow me to reaffirm that OER are free, plain and simple, full stop, period. OER = free + permissions.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 2, 2016
For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.
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