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Online Learning Book Recommendations: And Why I Read so Few Books on the Topic

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I’m wondering if you might recommend what top three books would you suggest I read outside of ‘Urgency for Teachers,’ ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed,’ ‘The New Education?’ I’ve ordered your book as well. Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning.

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What a Homework Help Site’s Move to Host Open Educational Resources Could Mean

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In May, the homework-help site that relies on student-generated content, Course Hero, dipped its toes into freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, course materials. This was the company’s “first foray” into OER, and it is still figuring out how the OER fits, Morris says. “I

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These Colleges Are Betting That Culturally Relevant Textbooks Will Improve Student Outcomes

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What if faculty of color were engaged in the process of creating books tailored to their classes? The funds will cover financial support and mentorship for faculty who create new open educational resources (OER for short) or adapt existing open textbooks. Like: What would happen if students had access to a catalog of free and?this

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Five digital citizenship activities everyone should know about

Hapara

Download the free e-book 3. Whether learners question rules related to internet usage or need support in how to use social media safely, opening a dialogue is one of the best ways to approach digital citizenship topics. Hāpara can help your school or district easily build and distribute a digital OER textbook collection.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. The Michigan Open Book Project created this digital textbook for kindergarteners. Learners will read about and discuss rules, decision-making and how to socialize in the classroom.

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Once Reviled in Education, Wikipedia Now Embraced By Many Professors

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He even wrote a book about the topic, called “ Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia.” 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. Absolutely. Absolutely.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

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Our digital front doors allowed us to: share and scale our resources ensure the ROI for our purchases leverage a growing number of OER promote collaborative efforts and highlight the work of my classroom teacher partners share our library as part of our school culture through image galleries, video channels, and social media feeds ensure that learners (..)

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