Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 5, 2023

For example, my son who is studying cybersecurity recently told me prompted ChatGPT along these lines: ‘You are the hiring manager for a cybersecurity position at a large company. Then do the same with every colorful little box containing an example, case study, etc. Conduct a mock interview with me, asking me ten conceptual questions.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

license from the original post on his blog. Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks.

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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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Tom Murray

JUNE 3, 2016

This blog was originally posted on the Future Ready website at [link]. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Andy Marcinek , Chief Open Education Advisor at the US Department of Education (ED), to explore how schools can benefit from Open Educational Resources (OERs) and what is being done in this area nationwide.

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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

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. In the last post I provided the following standards and listed the nouns I thought might be important: Example Standards. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites). Is flexible for mixing with other resources.

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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

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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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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Universities should be buying and selling courseware from each other,” says Feldstein, a longtime edtech consultant who also runs the popular blog eLiterate. The system will also pull in some OER textbook material developed by OpenStax , a low-cost publisher at Rice University.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. They do not have the technical expertise, the time, or the institutional support to engage meaningfully with OER. The first has to do with capacity.

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 13, 2016

We each use this license with the OER that we create and advocate for others to do the same. The BY license best reflects our values of eliminating friction, maximizing interoperability, and promoting unanticipated and innovative uses of OER. Let’s look at a specific example. It’s free advertising for my OER.

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ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

I’ve already shared the work Mike Caulfield is doing with the Digital Polarization Initiative , as well as the analysis he has done (and continues to do ) on his blog. Now Mike has published an OER textbook, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers. You can find the book in different formats linked on his blog.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. The mood was positive, especially as OER adoption seems to be rising, reaching <>15% of adoption in some cases. Does OER currenlty exist in the P-12 sector?

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. The mood was positive, especially as OER adoption seems to be rising, reaching <>15% of adoption in some cases. Does OER currenlty exist in the P-12 sector?

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

Her work with her state conference has empowered educators, her guidance has developed a state Open Educational Resources (OER) project, and her love of learning inspires those who flock to attend her presentations.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 21, 2017

, I defined open pedagogy as ”the set of teaching and learning practices only possible or practical in the context of the 5R permissions” – a definition I have been using in my writing and public speaking since I first blogged about open pedagogy back in 2013 (except there were only 4Rs back then). elicited quite a response.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

We at Designers for Learning responded to this call by inviting instructional designers, developers, and adult educators to join a crowdsourcing effort to develop free open educational resources (OER) for adults with low math and literacy skills.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2021

It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. Dr. Chuck contributed over the weekend, and his contribution provides a great opportunity for me to respond with the first substantive post since I changed the name of the blog.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We shared a blog post on eight approaches making a difference in public education—offering just a few examples of excellence happening in the League everyday. OER and Deeper Learning for the Next Generation Science Standards: Supporting deeper learning in NGSS through challenge-based projects and formative assessment tools.

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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.” You can see the evolution of my thinking on the topic reflected in my blog posts over the years. ” (For more detail, reference the blog posts listed above.).

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Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). For example, if you go to Google Advanced Search and scroll to the bottom, you can filter results by usage rights. You can visit these and the other services listed directly, as well.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). For example, if you go to Google Advanced Search and scroll to the bottom, you can filter results by usage rights. You can visit these and the other services listed directly, as well.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Learn more about gaming while at ISTE—and beyond: Book a meeting at ISTE 2018 to learn about Classcraft’s Engagement Management System for schools and districts, and the Quests Marketplace featuring partners like Google Education, Discovery Educator Network, Newsela, LRNG, Breakout EDU and OER Commons. Visit Classcraft at ISTE Booth #970.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

Episode 114 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. So, for example, sometimes students who are struggling might be on the below end, in the sense that they have an even less than 25% chance of succeeding at these questions. What makes Expii unique?

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Like some seasoned livestock farmer, she herds her illustrations, examples and 'key player' profiles together, to reiterate this theme throughout. Kamenetz eulogises over blogs which she describes as nodes in a vast, informal network of learning and opportunity. High ideals indeed. Unported License.

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The Daring Librarian

MARCH 19, 2020

Hello there dear blog readers and my Twitter / Instagram family and friends. Here's a kind of mirrored post that I put out on my Daring School Library blog for my kids, parents, and community. A post shared by @GwynethJones (@thedaringlibrarian) on Mar 13, 2020 at 8:36am PDT Here's an example from one of my favorite authors! ?

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User Generated Education

JULY 26, 2015

This theme has permeated many of my blog posts: Moving from Education 1.0 Students anywhere in the world can access OERs at any time, and they can access the material repeatedly ” ( Pros and Cons of Using OERs for Instruction ). As many of us in education know, it has not. Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

First, please take a moment to subscribe to this blog by RSS or email and join me on twitter at mjgormans . 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!

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

For instance, Kasey Bell generously shared her own resource-packed presentations on her Shake Up Learning Blog prior to the conference. Our own Kristina Holzweiss shared the Wakelet on Wakelet she co-presented, as well as her blog post on library uses of the platform. Soundtrap offers 20 Best of #ISTE19 podcasts. Here are our slides.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The Sydney-led BEST Network is an example of this, as is the very interesting Smart Sparrow (I hope to blog more about them later on). Many quiet signs of OER. As a small example, I was only able to see a few minutes of Michelle Weise ‘s talk, “What’s After “Next” in Higher Education?”

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

For example, the search bar on the homepage can be used to search for terms like “flipped teaching” or “cooperative learning” to find a list of webinars about these topics. edWeb provides the opportunity for teachers to stay up to date on the latest instructional strategies, research, and more.

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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. A common example might include a student word processing a story rather than hand writing it. Another example might be the teacher curating the curriculum for students using their LMS (Learning Management System).

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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. 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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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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Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

Given the rise of OER (of which I am a fan ), an increasing array of business models, questions about the degree of alignment to state standards and assessments, claims of effectiveness, and interoperability concerns, the instructional materials procurement decisions facing school districts have never been more complicated. Image credits.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. If OER adoption were to become widespread among the majority of faculty, it became clear that someone would need to do something more than create OER, post it on a website, and give conference talks about it. Background and Some Problems.

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