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On ZTC, OER, and a More Expansive View

Iterating Toward Openness

UNESCO later decided to refer to open content intended to support research, teaching, and learning as “open educational resources.” This choice rotated licensing into a secondary priority. Materials that were openly licensed and free were the OER we had spent the last decade advocating for. green below).

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OER Cost Savings and Adoption Rates: New Methodologies, New Data, and New Results

Iterating Toward Openness

At the OpenEd Conference in 2013, Nicole Allen and I challenged the OER community to save students one billion dollars. As a brief summary, part of the data collection involved sampling the prices for required course materials across a range of material formats, including new print, used print, print rental, digital rental, and loose-leaf.

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Thoughts on Continuous Improvement and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Recently I’ve been doing both more thinking and more roll-up-your-sleeves working on continuous improvement of OER. Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. Some teach five or six courses per semester. Simon , 1986).

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10 of the best K-12 sources for digital textbooks online

Hapara

While some subjects cover higher education, you can browse the high school section to find math and science textbooks for secondary education. OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). The site features open educational resources, including digital textbooks. .

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. As the conversation continued, Joosten discussed the importance of design in online course development, a primary finding in the scan.

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Is open a means to an end, or is open its own end?

Iterating Toward Openness

In this relationship, improving education is secondary to the goal of being more open. For example, it is impossible – not difficult or expensive, but impossible – to teach a modern literature or modern music or modern art course in a context where all course content must be open.

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Pearson Signals Major Shift From Print by Making All Textbook Updates ‘Digital First’

Edsurge

Today, Pearson announced it will adopt a “digital first” approach to updating its higher ed course materials, meaning that any revisions or changes to textbook content will happen first in the digital version. We need to be asking this of all digital materials, even open educational resources.”

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