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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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10 of the best K-12 sources for digital textbooks online

Hapara

While textbook publishing companies now offer digital versions, you can also find open textbook options online. Digital textbooks are textbooks that teachers and learners can access online or download to their devices. For example, under “Math” you’ll find digital textbooks covering algebra, pre-calculus and calculus.

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Stereotyping, Behavior, and Belonging in the Open Education Community

Iterating Toward Openness

Think for a minute about all the people and companies that have created really amazing commercial offerings based on Linux, Apache, MYSQL, PHP, Ruby, Node, React, or WordPress. ”, you declare, “the overwhelming majority of OER in the world are licensed in ways that permit commercial use, so what’s the problem?”

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Inspiring Math Excellence in the Classroom with Po-Shen Loh

The CoolCatTeacher

You can right click and download a copy. Download the transcript. 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. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Transcript for Episode 114 .

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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. For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. Now, make no mistake – OER is a means, not an end.

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Digitizing Curriculum Development: Think Efficiency

edWeb.net

They would be delivered to your learning management system or downloaded into an Excel notebook, or whatever vehicle can absorb them.”. Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license. Join the Community.

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Keep Calm and Read On

The Daring Librarian

Since our schools closed down last Friday companies have been very generous and forthcoming to provide FREE resources for our quarantined or grounded kiddos. My school district is really lucky because we've partnered with MackinVia and our kiddos have the ability to download FREE eBooks. Seems like more are coming out every day.

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