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Iterating Toward Openness
OCTOBER 9, 2018
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).
Edsurge
JULY 15, 2019
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. The company also claims that college students have already accessed more than 10 million digital courses and textbooks.
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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.
Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 12, 2015
See Efficacy, the Golden Ratio, and the OER Impact Factor.). ” Materials or software that claim to be “open” but are traditionally copyrighted “All Rights Reserved” are more appropriately called “faux-pen” (fake open). I doubt it will come down; it will likely only rise higher.
Iterating Toward Openness
APRIL 29, 2016
Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” OER often shine in their variety and ability to deepen resources for niche topics. ” The article poses three questions and answers them. Below I share some thoughts prompted by the article.
Edsurge
AUGUST 28, 2018
It affects higher education institutions as a subset of the way it affects all of our lives because, of course, the internet is like the nervous system that binds together everything we do in the 21st century. I wanted to ask you about OERs. How do you think that reversal is going to affect higher education institutions?
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.
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