Doug Levin
MAY 12, 2015
and I am merely a fan – not a fanboy – of open educational resources (OER).** Others surely see me as some sort of OER fanatic. So, if these are the actions of someone who is an OER fan, what stops me short of claiming fanboy status? I work in K-12 education in the U.S., I beg to disagree. Image credits.
Iterating Toward Openness
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Recently I’ve been doing both more thinking and more roll-up-your-sleeves working on continuous improvement of OER. And this process of making OER more effective every semester – also known as “continuous improvement” – is where we see some of the most exciting opportunities to collaborate with faculty.
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Digital Promise
MAY 17, 2017
These leaders came to Ohio for the League’s twelfth bi-annual League meeting ( #LISMentor ) in late April for an open conversation on improving student outcomes. How do we sustain a culture of innovation that improves student outcomes we care about? How do we ensure equitable access to excellent learning opportunities?
Iterating Toward Openness
JULY 7, 2016
That’s the core idea between renewable assessments like Murder, Madness, and Mayhem, or Project Management for Instructional Designers , or Blogs vs Wikis , or the DS106 Assignment Bank , or The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature , and many of the other examples listed by the community here. But what happens to learning?
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.
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. But open is not the star of the show.
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. Most faculty don’t have the technical expertise, the time, or the institutional support to manage their own WordPress installation or do anything more with OER than adopt a free PDF in place of their textbook.
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