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OER is Growing at Religious Colleges, But Raises Unique Challenges

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One popular draw to open educational resources is that these openly-licensed learning materials can—and are often encouraged to—be tailored for a particular professor or course. Communications librarian Kristen Hoffman oversees much of the OER work at Seattle Pacific University, a Christian university in Washington.

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?A Playbook to Go Open: 5 Steps to Adopting OER

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Adoption of digital learning resources is taking hold in schools and districts across the United States. Public schools now provide at least one computer for every five students and spend more than $3 billion per year on digital content, according to Education Week.

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Open Educational Resources Are ‘Moving Up the Adoption Ladder’ Around the World

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OER was one of six “emerging technologies and practices” the panelists highlighted as most likely to significantly influence postsecondary teaching and learning in the future. “It It is moving up the adoption ladder,” says Susan Grajek, vice president of communities and research for Educause, of OER. “It In the U.S.,

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

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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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SETDA Names Dr. Karen Richardson the Recipient of the 2021 Candice Dodson Influencer Award

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Her work with her state conference has empowered educators, her guidance has developed a state Open Educational Resources (OER) project, and her love of learning inspires those who flock to attend her presentations. state and territorial educational technology and digital learning leaders. About SETDA.

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Digital learning futures

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Digital Learning Futures View more presentations from Steve Wheeler As I write this blog post, the above slideshow has received almost 18,000 views in just 48 hours since it was posted up onto Slideshare. Here's to all the possible futures of learning! Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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The top 10 school IT leader concerns

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The fourth annual K-12 IT Leadership Survey Report , released during CoSN’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., Districts are turning to digital learning materials. Nearly 90 percent of respondents expect their instructional materials to be at least 50 percent digital within the next three years.