Iterating Toward Openness
DECEMBER 20, 2018
At the OpenEd Conference in 2013, Nicole Allen and I challenged the OER community to save students one billion dollars. SPARC started with a stratified sample of 120 US post-secondary institutions. The overall average price for all OER (both OER Only and OER Hybrid) is $17.32. OER Hybrid.
Bryan Alexander
JANUARY 24, 2016
Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference. I helped start the conference with a half-day workshop on “How Technology Can Enhance Liberal Education: The State of the Art in 2016.”
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Iterating Toward Openness
APRIL 25, 2019
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. Unless there’s a shorter one.
Iterating Toward Openness
JUNE 9, 2016
The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. If OER adoption were to become widespread among the majority of faculty, it became clear that someone would need to do something more than create OER, post it on a website, and give conference talks about it. Background and Some Problems.
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2019
And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). If you make it too expensive, colleges are going to look harder at OER,” she said.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) .” And how much growth can we really expect in the size of the LMS market?
edWeb.net
AUGUST 13, 2019
A pilot program of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has made 12 states’ reviews of secondary math and language arts materials available, with a wide range of K-12 resources from these and other states to follow. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.
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