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!”
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. Free Isn’t Free For students, OER texts are typically free, or nearly free.
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Iterating Toward Openness
APRIL 14, 2017
to do continuous improvement in education, you need OER (permission to change) plus analytics (info about what to change). I’m a huge fan of R and R Studio and use them regularly for data extraction, cleaning, and analysis. But recently I’ve found myself spending more time in the machine learning space.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 25, 2018
It also helps schools reach goals like higher student success, better data analysis, more robust cybersecurity and easier access to education technology, the report’s authors explain. Five of the nine states involved in the SETDA report are currently using Ed-Fi resources. Find the Tools to Introduce Interoperability.
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.
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. So far, more than 9 million students have used OpenStax books, the nonprofit reports, calculating their cumulative savings to students at $800 million. 1 in the market.
NeverEndingSearch
JULY 5, 2017
When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. 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. Clearly, curation is not only about OER.
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