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How to sort the good from the bad in OER

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. These OER – open educational resources – may be good, bad or indifferent. Quality was our goal.”.

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

Edsurge

As momentum for digital learning builds, some districts—80 percent according to the 2017 Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) K12 IT Leadership Survey Report —are using open educational resources (OER), which the U.S. But while many benefits of OER are visible on the surface, we must notice the fine print.

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Improving the OpenEd Conference – Survey and Interview Highlights and Data

Iterating Toward Openness

Two months ago I invited people to respond to a survey regarding the Open Education Conference and how it can be improved. The conference is expensive. Streaming some or all of the conference keynotes and sessions would enable more people to participate. Potentially create a conference track focused on first-timers.

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Beyond Free Materials: OER Advocates Push For Inclusiveness in Teaching Practices

Edsurge

Jess Mitchell, senior manager of research and design at the Inclusive Design Research Centre , posed the question on Wednesday to a group of around 850 educators, librarians and other open-access enthusiasts at Lumen Learning’s OpenEd conference in Niagara Falls, NY. How are technology decisions being made at our institutions?

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Where Are All the Faculty in the Open Education Movement?

Edsurge

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. To answer this question, I have to examine my own experience with OER and its advocates. To me, using OER felt like a no-brainer. Many working in open education praised me for being so involved in the movement as an educator dealing with OER on the ground.

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Robots Won’t Replace Instructors, 2 Penn State Educators Argue. Instead, They’ll Help Them Be ‘More Human.’

Edsurge

It’s a question that some higher education instructors have asked before, and one that two Penn State University educators sought to answer on Wednesday at this year’s EDUCAUSE conference in Denver. BBookX uses artificial intelligence to create OER texts for professors to use in their courses instead of traditional textbooks.

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In Search of OER’s Future and Edtech’s Missing Evidence at SXSW EDU

Edsurge

Speakers at this week’s SXSW EDU conference in Austin wasted no time before diving into taboo topics. Austin, Texas outside of the SXSW EDU conference And that was just the start. While OER was presented as one way to ease course material costs, other challenges remain, starting with understanding and awareness of what the term means.

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