Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That's an all-time high, and a big increase since the fall of 2015, when only 3 percent of students reported downloading free course materials. The percent of students who reported downloading free materials has increased each semester since. The top reason why?

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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. Books built out of little Lego blocks, glued together so the digital photo student could have their perfect book and the music student could have their perfect book.”

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Booking Info – Time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Past Series Articles.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 13, 2016

For example, community college adoption of OER depends on the behavior of institutions that most of their students transfer to. described two undergraduates’ experiences with OER. Baby boomer faculty shared stories of the staggeringly cheap prices for their books, to the groans of younger folk.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

Today, college students on average spend more than $1,200 on books and materials, according to The College Board. A report by investment bank Macquarie estimated that print titles made up 45 percent of U.S. The company reported that 55 percent of its $1.3 According to a study by U.S. higher education courseware sales in 2015.

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Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

The 2018 Horizon Report , started by the New Media Consortium in 2017, was completed and published by EDUCAUSE this week. My perspective is based on many years of working on and with Horizon Reports. It was really important to us that it have not just the look, but that it also read and felt like a Horizon Report.”. ”).

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Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

The 2018 Horizon Report , started by the New Media Consortium in 2017, was completed and published by EDUCAUSE this week. My perspective is based on many years of working on and with Horizon Reports. It was really important to us that it have not just the look, but that it also read and felt like a Horizon Report.”. ”).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. What I find truly innovative about these platforms is their ability to bring together all of your library’s content, in addition to the OERs, to not only save money, but help faculty become more creative with their course design.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Also remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. Check out my Booking Page and as always… thanks so much! Open Education Resources – Talk about big, this network brings together 44,129 OER tools for sharing curriculum. Quick Notes.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

It boggles my mind that someone whose industry faces an existential threat from open educational resources (OER) still doesn’t know what open means. The amount of free information online dwarfs the amount of information available as OER. OER are not a threat to publishers simply because they’re free.

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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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. million last year from the U.S.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The Global Medieval Sourcebook at Stanford University is bringing an expansive, OER mentality to the medieval canon, making reliable texts available for classroom use. The library holds about 124 million items, including 125,000 telephone books, she said. It has the largest collections of recorded sound and maps in the world.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here’s a hint: they’ve produced more than double the number of books created by the next largest producer. The data in the [Linux Foundation’s] Kernel Development report shatter this illusion. The report goes on to explain that contributions to the open source Linux kernel were accepted at a rate of 8.5

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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. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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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?” OER often shine in their variety and ability to deepen resources for niche topics. ” The article poses three questions and answers them. Below I share some thoughts prompted by the article.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 23, 2020

I wanted to include a reading summarizing my current thinking on ‘evaluating the impact of OER’ in the course, so I’m letting some thoughts spill out below. In the past I’ve written frequently about how we evaluate the impact of OER use. and more OER impact research should follow that lead. versus 2.6).

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). enhancing every-day learning experiences–media-rich annotations of historic places, libraries (shelves, books?), Radical change: Books for youth in a digital age. Library Technology Reports , 54 (6). Library Technology Reports (vol. Resources: Donally, J.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 28, 2016

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am now almost booked through the start of August, and the second half of the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Look for contact information at the Booking Site. Don’t miss these valuable reports!

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” ” Spoiler alert: Latinos.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

.–and search tools–Google Books, Images, Scholar, etc. They can also incorporate such content-rich resources as library databases, ebooks, videos, and the growing array of available OERs. They can also incorporate such content-rich resources as library databases, ebooks, videos, and the growing array of available OERs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies). Big Tech’s Bets.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

But as Lindsey Cook (Data Editor at US News & World Report) points out in this 20 minute talk, that data isn’t always accessible. A Debate on “Open” Educational Resources : Can free and open educational resources (OER) save students money without compromising their content or value? Monday, March 6 9:30 a.m. Higher Ed 9:30 a.m.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

As countless educators around the world have scrambled to figure out how to deliver lessons remotely with whisker-thin budgets, many turned to open education resources (OER). Khosla is the founder and CEO of CK-12 , the 30-person nonprofit that she started in 2007 to deliver free digital books, particularly on math and science topics.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

hl=en Social Studies Google Maps - https://maps.google.com/ G o Social Studies Go - A Good Alternative to Social Studies Textbooks - Multimedia books about US History, World History and World Religions. MoveNote makes that possible by giving students the ability to add video and audio descriptions to their products right in Google Drive.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

College leaders stress that professors retain as much academic freedom as ever to choose which books to assign. But department leaders are encouraging professors to take a close look at the Cengage books to get the deal. Of course, there are big differences between textbooks and fizzy drinks. It was a horrible experience.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

I agreed on the conditions that I would retain copyright in the chapter and that it would appear in the book under a Creative Commons license. Now that the book is appearing in print, I’m publishing the full-text chapter here so that there will be an easier-to-access open access version of the chapter available online.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 29, 2015

We are proud to report that we had more than 2,000 people register for this event, and had up to 400 people logged in simultaneously to listen to top experts in the field discuss the future of technology and learning in libraries. You can follow us on Twitter at #liveclass20. More information here. Follow #TLChat on Twitter to participate.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Report highlights. Rather than a single book or set of books, most basal programs now include a number of materials to facilitate learning. In addition, the number of schools and districts using OER continues to rise. And even if the main product is print, the additional resources often include digital components.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Chromebook Idea Spark #1: Personalized Story Telling with Book Creator. Young writers can use this Book Creators to craft their work and envision it published. Young writers can use this Book Creators to craft their work and envision it published. Created by Austin Houp. Students need a platform to show who they are as authors.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The service can distribute open educational resources, or OER, textbooks that are available to professors and students for free. It’s also integrated into the university’s payment system, allowing users to charge books to their student account. “If Kaji says that five years ago, about 8 percent of course materials were digital.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Digital OER are free. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. In K-12 schools, however, where open educational resources have been hailed as an opportunity to democratize high-quality curriculum and break the publishing oligopoly, OER has had a slower uptake. Mississippi Learning. Larry Singer, CEO of Open Up Resources.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. Comments Section : Students examine a post from a newspaper comment section and explain whether they would use it in a research report.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

. “Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. The seller: Book Dog Books. “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable?

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Cooperate or Compete What happens when legacy publishers and OER upstarts meet in the same room to talk about a buzzy phrase like the “Netflix of Higher Ed”? He’s recently co-authored a children’s book, “ Our First Talk about Poverty.”) A desire to collaborate—and egos to compete. No silver linings here, either.

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