ProfHacker

AUGUST 26, 2016

When we look at common definitions of Open Educational Resources or OERs (e.g., When we look at common definitions of Open Educational Resources or OERs (e.g., Laura Gogia and Bonnie Stewart, for example, opened up their academic practice to the public by making the process of their thesis defenses transparent, as described here ).

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. Listen to this article. . para, where he explains how PBL and OER go hand-in-hand. . What are Open Educational Resources (OER)? Where do teachers find OER? . but should be). Click To Tweet.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 13, 2017

Remi Kalir, one of the organizers of the open annotation project Marginal Syllabus , explains how the project is an example of open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP), and its potential for ongoing teacher education. Read the full article at Marginal Syllabus.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

The most recent issue of IRRODL included an article titled Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance: A Case Study , by Juan I. This was justified by the fact that there is a lack of empirical evidence to support expanding the use of OER.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 21, 2016

The authentic interdisciplinary text includes news articles, short stories, speeches, poems, historical documents and excerpts from classical literature, all selected to support the course of study for middle and high school, especially for English, social students, science. Registration is free.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 7, 2016

Take an all-too-typical example: Faculty member assigns student to write a two page compare and contrast essay. This example assumes physical paper, but the principles are exactly the same in the context of assessments submitted, graded, and returned electronically.). Student writes the paper and submits it to faculty.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Finding good lessons, videos, articles and activities is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. Freddy has been studying how kids learn to read for four decades and has written more than 100 peer reviewed articles on the subject. Elfrieda “Freddy” H.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 5, 2017

Last week I shared a little of my thinking about the problems inherent in the way people in the field talk about OER. And it’s not IHE’s fault that they have this deeply impoverished view of OER – they’re learning about OER from us, the OER advocates. Like they do every day.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Past Series Articles. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. The point of emphasis for this article is item number three below. In the last post I provided the following standards and listed the nouns I thought might be important: Example Standards.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

I hear more often these days about teaching with free online materials instead of traditional textbooks (known as OER). The OER conversation is very energized right now, and it's a complex conversation. I tend to focus on aspects of OER depending on the audience. Absolutely. It's a continuing spectrum. Absolutely.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. To answer this question, I have to examine my own experience with OER and its advocates. To me, using OER felt like a no-brainer. Many working in open education praised me for being so involved in the movement as an educator dealing with OER on the ground.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

It isn’t difficult to find examples of places where more openness would be detrimental to education. 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.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning. I’m also certain that as soon as I consider this article done, I will think of six more that should have absolutely been included within the list. I’ve ordered your book as well. I cheated and gave you six.

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Online Learning Learning OER Course 174

ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Now Mike has published an OER textbook, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers. The end of the book also contains a number of “Unfinished Articles” that need some more work (which he welcomes). Will you be using this book or recommending it to your campus community?

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The reason you’ve never heard anyone claim that tax status disqualifies companies from participating in or benefiting from open source is that Article 6 of the Open Source Definition – No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor – explicitly prohibits us from doing so. Let me give you an example. “But wait!”,

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

While OER was presented as one way to ease course material costs, other challenges remain, starting with understanding and awareness of what the term means. Still, sustainable ways to fund OER into the future remains an open question. Austin, Texas outside of the SXSW EDU conference And that was just the start.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To hear some OER advocates describe it today in 2024, the same format that was being used in the late 2000s – traditional-looking textbooks published under open licenses – is the state of the art when it comes to open educational resources. OER have also been used as part of personalized, interactive courseware systems, too.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 21, 2017

For example, I learned that when I first started writing about open pedagogy in 2013, I made the cardinal mistake of not checking to see if the term might have a long history of use by others in a context completely outside the one I was writing about. You should really read the whole article to get the nuance of his argument.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Hey #OER gurus, rec’d a question about #CreativeCommons BY-NC license & trepidation re using NC stuff specifically in publicly-funded colleges & universities. Or just link to original article pic.twitter.com/Xl73yrGABD. Safe to use, correct? Note that the profit status of the school was not specified in these two uses.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 24, 2015

It’s a very impressive article, packing a lot of insight into a short space. Malcolm not only grounds each in real-world examples, but gradually interconnects these movements, as we see mobile-first and changes to textbook publishers altering the LMS, for example. Read what follows carefully.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Yesterday IHE published an article about the “ inclusive access ” programs offered by most major textbook publishers. The inclusive access model’s goal of reducing the cost of textbooks apparently reminded the article’s author of OER, because she includes some discussion of OER toward the end of the article.

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Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

Business and technology have become truly complementary: Forbes gives the example of engine manufacturers relying on software to push forward production. OER Commons provides a database of free learning materials commonly used by teachers nationwide. Address the ability of the teacher to instruct his/her students using technolo gy.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

Past Series Articles. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. In the last few posts we discovers nouns that could uncover OER (Open Education Resources) and verbs that could lead to important digital tools that allow for process development. Example Standards.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2019

Among other things, the post discusses her role in my decision to abandon the phrase “open pedagogy” and adopt the phrase “OER-enabled pedagogy.” Even though it paints me in a fairly poor light, I recommend that you read it. ” (For more detail, reference the blog posts listed above.).

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 29, 2015

Past Series Articles. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Technology allows the 21 st century classroom to use this awareness of the nouns to connect with free resources on the internet known as OER (Open Education Resources). Example Standards.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

There would be huge benefits to the OER ecosystem if we made similar arguments with commercial publishers, helping them understand why switching to an OER model would be good for their business. Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model. And a switch to OER would help publishers solve both of them.

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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?

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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. For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. Now, make no mistake – OER is a means, not an end.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

But as Betsy Corcoran outlined in her July 2014 article , some companies had yet to deliver on their promise of clearly outlining how educators could apply for those products and services. “If Take Adobe , for example. And to provide more digital content beyond OERs, the government launched the Open eBooks app back in February 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

As an example, the Ripple Effects digital platform begins by giving students a choice of over 400 “real-world” topics to explore, ranging from anxiety to violence in the home. Related: How to sort the good from the bad in OER. Jessica Berlinski , Juliette Berg and Maurice Elias contributed to this article.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license. This article was modified and published by EdScoop. If a standard changed, the GUID would allow component systems to detect that change and automatically update resources aligned with the new standard.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Past… Beyond the Shine Series Articles. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. A common example might include a student word processing a story rather than hand writing it. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full.

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Resources Technology Examples STEM 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I wish to share with you this article I wrote for PBLWorks (BIE/BUCK Institute) of which I am part of the National Faculty. I hope pou find this first article helpful and that you return for continued postings in this series. Read the article or watch the webinar. Read the article or watch the webinar (future).

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

Of course, there is still Flipped Learning, 1 to 1 Programs, Blended Learning, Maker Movements, Genious Hours, SAMR, Learning Targets, 21st Century Learning, the 4C’s, Personalised Learning, Digital Textbooks, and OER! Each block has four indicators which I will be relating as I publish future articles. note the standards.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

Curt began by describing the use of MOOCs for faculty and staff development, with examples such as a University of London effort. However, most people remain unaware of OER. Curt sees that as a thing, mentioning the example of Ning , which was popular… when it was free. Bonk mentioned examples from TEC-Variety.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 28, 2016

In fact, in this article I integrate curriculum, PD, and technology together in a way that makes so much sense. After you read this article, I am sure you will appreciate how technology and curriculum really do come together. Let me provide an example below…. Sign Up Now!). note the standards. tools and apps.

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