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As OER Grows Up, Advocates Stress More Than Just Low Cost

Edsurge

But fans of OER are increasingly facing a problem. While OER started off as free online textbooks, it still costs money to produce these materials, and professors often need guidance finding which ones are high quality. So OER advocates are realizing they need to change their pitch. Listen to the EdSurge On Air podcast?

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The Learning Counsel launches digital curriculum survey

eSchool News

Created to assist executives and curriculum and technology directors in guiding the transition to digital curriculum and content, the survey also offers schools the chance win national awards. The Learning Counsel’s 2016 Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey and Assessment Tool is now available online. Transition barriers.

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Join the edWeb Team at ISTE 2015

edWeb.net

Come and meet up with the edWeb team at ISTE in Philadelphia next week. Learning Bird is an edtech company that gives great teachers a platform to make a difference to students all over the country. Learn about how to use open educational resources (OER) in your classroom! Below are a few offers from our partners.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I would be happy to join you and your staff in a Web Meeting. I would be happy to join you and your staff in a Web Meeting. I would be happy to join you and your staff in a Web Meeting. I would be happy to join you and your staff in a Web Meeting. I would be happy to join you and your staff in a Web Meeting.

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The Consensus Around “Open”

Iterating Toward Openness

The most frequently cited definition of OER is the Hewlett Foundation definition : OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. faculty are completely unaware of OER.

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Reducing Friction in OER Adoption

Iterating Toward Openness

Last week I promised I would write a few posts about reducing friction with regard to OER. In last week’s post I talked about how we’re making it ridiculously easy for students, faculty, and others to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of OER. Or remix existing open source tools to meet their needs.

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

Kitaboo on EdTech

Around 82% of the respondents of the survey also feel that digital is the future. Viable adoption options to meet the needs of institutions. Open Educational Resources (OER) Products – OER course products are developed based on open resources and utilize instructional design and professional services.

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