Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2017

Open Educational Resources (OER) have yet to cozy up with the more orthodox academics and pushy print publishers of the world. Advocates praise their accessible low-prices and ability to meet students on digital devices. On its own, the OER company partners with nearly 150 campuses.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

But it wasn’t until her current gig, serving as an instructor for a course on water supply and demand in California, that she got her feet wet with open educational resources. Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. Now it’s my job.”

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Meet OASIS. The goal of the Openly Available Sources Integrated Search is to facilitate the discovery of OER. Course Materials. An Advanced Search allows users to refine by author, title, specific subject, a growing number of source portals , or to search by link. Interactive Simulations. Public Domain Books. Audiobooks.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites).

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The League of Innovative Schools (League) convened in Park City, Utah last week for the biannual #DPLIS meeting, co-hosted with Juab School District , Uinta County School District #1 , and Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. Honored & proud to work w these progressive leaders from Mentor, Middletown, & Lakota.

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Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

What I do want to comment on (in greater than 140 characters) is the practice of ‘openwashing:’ what it is, why I believe not being able to go beyond a pro-OER elephant test for organizations and service providers is untenable in practice, and some thoughts on what we can do about it. The Pro-OER Elephant Test.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

The most recent issue of IRRODL included an article titled Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance: A Case Study , by Juan I. This was justified by the fact that there is a lack of empirical evidence to support expanding the use of OER. When Grimaldi et al.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The universities in Georgia have seen improved grades since the widespread adoption of open education resources, while Wake Technical saw better online course completion rates among minority students whose instructors communicated with them via text message and virtual meetings software.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

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. Students are enrolling in my course to get a technical degree but they can’t afford the textbook because it’s $300. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

House Bill 1915, which would establish a clearinghouse of federally approved online courses for students in grades 6 to 12, garnered unanimous support in the House Education Committee on Monday. The bill will phase in clearinghouse courses over two phases, with the first phase beginning in the 2017-18 school year. image via AP ].

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Namely, it wants to help build an open-source system that lets professors piece together online course materials from a variety of sources, and also offer their own materials for sale to colleagues around the world. The system will also pull in some OER textbook material developed by OpenStax , a low-cost publisher at Rice University.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning. For instance, I took an online course taught by Sean Michael Morris through the Digital Pedagogy Lab a few years back. I’ve ordered your book as well. Sometimes that takes the form of becoming a student.

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Online Learning Learning OER Course 187

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

OER and open books. Two that shine are OER/open books and learning analytics. OER and open books also help keep course materials more affordable for students. Adaptive learning platforms meet learners where they are and then put information in front of them that challenges then at the appropriate level.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. And of course, Instructure (Canvas), Moodle Pty Ltd (Moodle), Longsight (Sakai), and other companies provide for-fee, value-added services around Learning Management Systems hosting and support.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Intellus Learning allows instructors to access high-quality open education resources (OER) and other openly licensed content, as well as their institution’s academic library materials to help meet budgetary goals. Where to Find & Curate OER Resources ] Faculty can curate and assign pertinent OER and library content to students.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2018

As the title of the document makes explicit, the framework aims to contribute to the conversation about the sustainability of OER: “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship” It’s a valuable contribution to that conversation. I struggle to see how this will be possible.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

As a member of Alan’s Team all year, it is a lot of fun to meet so many people from around the world at his summer conference in Boston. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Please enjoy and share with others.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Over a third of America’s smallest school districts are already meeting the FCC’s 1 Mbps per student Internet connection goal for 2018, according to our newly released 2018 State of the States report. The decision to be an early adopter of OER put the one-school district on the map, earning a visit in 2015 from then-U.S.

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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. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 31, 2015

Of course, a few renegades got their airplanes briefly off the ground, but they were prosecuted swiftly and harshly, and made examples of. Another Old Law Meets a New Technology. Open Content Meets the Internet. There is nothing about OER adoption that forces innovative teaching practices on educators. Open Pedagogy.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 12, 2015

The major publishers are publicly traded companies with growth and earnings expectations they have to meet. And when the number of units you sell is dropping, the only way to meet revenue goals is to raise prices on the few units you do sell. See Efficacy, the Golden Ratio, and the OER Impact Factor.).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

His proposal has New York City community colleges scrambling to “leapfrog” digital innovation to meet the expected surge in student enrollment. The assumption is that students will be much more likely to carry 15 credits if one or two of those courses were online—no commuting time, no daycare issues.". Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.)

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. This could work by using government-provided or other sources for course content, out of which we get live data. For example, Oregon announced grants to fund OER creation.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. This could work by using government-provided or other sources for course content, out of which we get live data. For example, Oregon announced grants to fund OER creation.

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Trends OER Policies Conference 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Community colleges are known for innovating to meet the challenges of educating some of the nation’s most disadvantaged students: low-income, first-generation, minority, and adult learners. By adopting the adaptive tool, we were able to completely integrate the lab and lecture during the class meeting times. adaptive technology.

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Learning OER Software Course 60

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

The alliance will initially give teachers an avenue to find, remix and share collections and courses of open content designed for future-ready learning. Unfortunately, many of the tools available only meet a small portion of teachers’ needs or they are prohibitively expensive.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Peak Performance Mathematics Bridge Program —a six-week summer course for students who place below the first math class in their chosen field of study. While students were going through the math remediation courseware, they were also meeting with their peer mentor on a weekly basis using video conferencing.”. The result?

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Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 92

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

They’ve made 12 modules, four syllabi for upper-level bachelor’s or master’s courses, and several handbooks for guiding faculty and creating internship programs. One of the initial steps was developing course materials for professors to use and adapt without having to start from scratch. They’re not stopping at resources, though.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 14, 2017

In addition to regular meetings with partner schools where we share insights both surprising and mundane, this work also supports our continuous improvement efforts to make our open courseware objectively more effective term after term.

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Analysis Data Tools Learning 63

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

In early 1998, a group of advocates got together for a strategy meeting to discuss how they could advance the cause of free software. When the university got serious about exploring the use of the internet for education, as webmaster I was appointed chair of the Electronic Course Oversite Committee. I don’t trust them.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2019

Among other things, the post discusses her role in my decision to abandon the phrase “open pedagogy” and adopt the phrase “OER-enabled pedagogy.” So when people tell the story of how the term “OER-enabled pedagogy” came to be they should absolutely include Maha in it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2015

Award Winning Science Teacher Amy Pace Shares How She Uses OER Textbooks Amy Pace is a Presidential Award winning science teacher. She is using “free” OER textbooks for all her courses. OER stands for Open Education Resources which are often curated by experts via grants and other means. Of course, nothing is free.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

Among the Pearson products that will phase out Knewton’s technology include those in the MyLab and Mastering suite , which cover a wide range of higher-ed courses in math, economics, English, sciences and engineering. content providers.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I recently attended one of the community meetings discussing whether or not a national open education policy is needed in the US. There were two other meetings I did not attend, so I can’t speak to them. There were several times during the meeting when attendees were asked to contribute their thoughts on a range of topics.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Discover activities that meet you where you live, whether your “classroom” is an active volcano, the shark tank at the local aquarium, or your own kitchen table. Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core.

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