Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

With course materials averaging around $1,200 per year , many colleges over the past decade have adopted open educational resources (OER) to cut costs for students. One review offers evidence that students using OER as their primary course material sometimes perform better.) Jared Robinson and David A.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

Use of free course materials among college students is up, with 22 percent downloading at least one such resource during the spring 2019 semester, according to research published Wednesday by the National Association of College Stores. The percent of students who reported downloading free materials has increased each semester since.

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Course OER Pearson Survey 151

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 12, 2015

He writes, “While to an OER advocate faculty are mere pawns to their agenda, to publishers, faculty are critical partners in academic success.” ” The overwhelming majority of OER advocates are faculty, and they have become OER advocates for two reasons.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

And even before the management change, the company had quietly started building a huge library of courses bolted to its adaptive engine. The secret to its swift entry into publishing was OER (open education resources). And officials say that professors at 80 colleges are already trying the textbooks in their courses.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

New and traditional publishers are trying to offer alternatives such as open educational resources (OER), or freely downloadable and adaptable learning materials. But some providers of OER still ask for fees in return, and that has advocates concerned. Edward Watson.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). There are also education textbooks that teachers can use to find strategies for instruction. The textbooks cover subjects that work well for secondary grade levels, although some are written for college courses. TextBookGo.

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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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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. But it was clear to our little group, that to the larger majority of the participants, we were not even on the OER radar. Some OER background: Launched in October, GoOpen is a U.S. What are OER? We made an impact.

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

YouTube algorithms: How to avoid the rabbit hole Explore how to use SEL to benefit learners and retain your teachers Check out our SEL strategies that can help you create a more positive and equitable school and district culture. Hāpara can help your school or district easily build and distribute a digital OER textbook collection.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Elementary OER 274

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 21, 2016

As librarians, wehn we gear up for a new school year, it’s exciting to have a few new strategies for engaging learners with literature and for building our own literature discovery/selection toolkit. Note that each theme offers age-appropriate strategies, leveled readings and activities for examining the essential questions.

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IT Bill

JULY 13, 2018

A recent study at the University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) looked at outcomes for students taking courses using traditional commercial textbooks versus open educational resources (OER). Results of the study found students enrolled in OER sections (both Pell and non-Pell eligible students) earned significantly higher final grades.

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OER Resources Education Outcomes 28

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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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

tl;dr – In order to be relevant today and in the future, a national open education strategy must (1) know exactly what it is trying to accomplish and (2) deeply integrate generative AI. WICHE is convening a series of conversations this week and next titled, “ Do We Need a National Open Education Strategy?

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 19, 2015

For almost three years Lumen Learning has been helping faculty, departments, and entire degree programs adopt OER in place of expensive commercial textbooks. Of course you’ll trust it to know what you’re looking for better than you trust yourself to find it. Except you don’t.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

BLearning – Blended Learning (using a range of multimedia and strategies). MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). OER – Open Educational Resource (this can be any online materials that are free to use).

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Furthermore, universities and school are also inclined towards diversifying their facilities through online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). It offers a large number of students access to study high-quality courses online through video streaming. However, some courses are chargeable.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

We need strategies for personalizing and enriching the remote learning experience. Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. I thought quite a bit about how important this virtual presence was to me over the course of 25 years.

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Libraries OER Wiki Strategy 145

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

The pitch was that Knewton’s technology could help them glean where students may be struggling as they worked through course materials, and surface the appropriate content at the right time. Knewton’s Alta, by contrast, is tapping into openly-licensed, or OER, materials.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. BHP, dubbed a “social studies course that runs on jet fuel”, covers nearly 14 billion years of history for middle and high school students. As Freddy is wont to say, “No one gets good at anything without practicing the skill or strategy.”

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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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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

But now it wants to compete with them in their core business of course materials. And it just may have found a key piece to make that strategy click. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 18, 2017

Cengage recently announced a new offering called MindTap ACE that includes OER and is now available in pilot. The video clearly shows Cengage content listed for each topic, followed by some OER. MindTap ACE addresses this challenge by including OER alongside Cengage’s best-in-class content.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In the spirit of iterating toward openness, I’ve recently had the opportunity to revisit some of my earlier thinking about how to measure the impact of OER-related work. I have previously written about metrics I call the educational golden ratio and the OER impact factor. of students passed the course.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

It is equally important to improve learner experience in courses—especially gateway and early courses. Actions like lowering textbook costs through the use of open educational resources (OER) or digital courseware is a great start. It’s a student success strategy, not a silver bullet. The big “aha!”

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

Remind is a good example of this because professors can easily and privately share with a whole class, or groups within a class, relevant course materials. These mobile messages keep students connected to course material and let students know we care about them, but the system is still too one-size-fits-all.

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 88

Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 7, 2016

A change of this magnitude – and really, any change in assessment strategy – deserves to be well understood. My colleagues in the Open Education Group and I like to say that when you’re considering the outcomes of research on OER adoption, there are “two ways to win.” . “You promise learn.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015. TESS101x: Enhancing Teacher Education Through OER. INQ101x: Teaching With Technology and Inquiry: An Open Course For Teachers. Self-Paced Online Courses For Teacher. Designing an Exemplary Course. Locating, Creating, Licensing and Utilizing OERs.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In addition to offering theoretically rigorous, research-oriented courses, also offering a few highly job-oriented courses as well,” he tweeted. In addition to offering theoretically rigorous, research-oriented courses, also offering a few highly job-oriented courses as well. Ed Garay (@garay) November 13, 2018.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

[Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. I fear it is OER wanting it both ways. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Student: I’ll study whether students learn better with OER than with traditional course materials! We’d talk about why these studies almost always result in “no significant difference.” (And if you’re thinking, “just increasing access to course materials will make a significant difference in student learning!”,

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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

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

K12 digital curation is about getting our users/students/teachers to the good stuff, pointing them to content and resources they might now discover with their intuitive strategies. In school libraries, digital curation represents a workflow strategy for student inquiry. Curating OER. Clearly, curation is not only about OER.

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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. Instead, they’ve recruited an advisory team and developed a strategy for intentionally planting seeds—and sometimes full-grown trees—at institutions across the country.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Two decades later, their strategy has clearly paid off: for-profit companies create and contribute to an incredible amount of open source software. There would be huge benefits to the OER ecosystem if we made similar arguments with commercial publishers, helping them understand why switching to an OER model would be good for their business.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

What if… every Urban Education Network of Iowa district had an ‘alternative’ high school for low-achieving students that focused on creative inquiry, collaborative problem-solving, and community contribution instead of worksheet packets and self-paced online courses? some may already). kind of like Iowa BIG in Cedar Rapids).

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