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When is an OER an OER?

Iterating Toward Openness

tl ;dr – If a resource is licensed in a way that grants you permission to engage in the 5R activities, and grants you those permissions for free, it’s an open educational resource (OER) – no matter where you find it or how it’s being used. Consider the following scenarios: A person downloads an OER to their laptop.

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?Scaling Mobile Technology for Community College Students: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs

Edsurge

After three years of utilizing a BYOD (bring your own device) policy with my classes at Nassau Community College, I have seen how tools like tablets and laptops can lead to better academic engagement. Many of my students find themselves composing essays across a variety of devices, phones, personal laptops or campus desktops.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

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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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition)

Doug Levin

And what kind of impact data should they be tracking over the course of a season? Using half of the funds, the Texas Education Agency contracted with OpenStax, a nonprofit based at Rice University, to write textbooks for several popular high school STEM courses. Tagged on: August 17, 2017 Do Laptops Help Learning?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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Digital Courseware or ePUB – Which is the Future of Higher Education?

Kitaboo on EdTech

Content that covers the complete curriculum of credit courses. Companies use proprietary digital platforms to deliver digital courseware according to the needs of the students and their learning pace, allowing for the personalization of education and increased interactivity. Viable adoption options to meet the needs of institutions.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. million laptops to all public primary schools. It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. Education in the Courts. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.