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Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 27, 2019
As the movement grew and more people began advocating for the adoption of OER in place of traditionally copyrighted materials in classes, some advocates chose to make cost the primary focus of their advocacy. This choice rotated licensing into a secondary priority. Other schools have OER policies and OER degree programs.
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
In this relationship, improving education is secondary to the goal of being more open. For example, it is impossible – not difficult or expensive, but impossible – to teach a modern literature or modern music or modern art course in a context where all course content must be open. ” That way lies danger.
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Iterating Toward Openness
APRIL 25, 2019
I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses.
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Yesterday IHE published an article about the “ inclusive access ” programs offered by most major textbook publishers. These are purchasing programs in which “institutions are signing up whole classes of students to automatically receive digital course materials at a discounted rate, rather than purchasing individually.”
Iterating Toward Openness
APRIL 29, 2016
Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” ” The article poses three questions and answers them. Below I share some thoughts prompted by the article. How do we deliver better learning experiences to more students?
Edsurge
AUGUST 28, 2018
It affects higher education institutions as a subset of the way it affects all of our lives because, of course, the internet is like the nervous system that binds together everything we do in the 21st century. I wanted to ask you about OERs. How do you think that reversal is going to affect higher education institutions?
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. More on that in a subsequent article in this series.) 70+ million users’ account details.
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