Analysis Definition Libraries OER 
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.’ ’ For many years OER advocates have told faculty, “When you adopt OER your students save money and get the same or better outcomes!”
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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NeverEndingSearch
JULY 5, 2017
When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.
Hack Education
MARCH 23, 2018
” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.”
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
JUNE 10, 2015
Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Puentedura, the teacher is just using the technology to replace a resource list that could be used in the library. There really is a definite change in the lesson that may have started with an analog foundation.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. What is a “Platform”?
Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 13, 2017
Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.
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