Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2022

In May, the homework-help site that relies on student-generated content, Course Hero, dipped its toes into freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, course materials. This was the company’s “first foray” into OER, and it is still figuring out how the OER fits, Morris says. “I

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OER Resources Education Course 130

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

Data collection inherent to the IEP process enables educators to more easily personalize learning, pinpointing opportunities for growth, as well as learner strengths. Meaningful data points In some schools, summative assessments make up the bulk of data collected about a student.

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OER Data Personalized Learning Assessment 141

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The funds will cover financial support and mentorship for faculty who create new open educational resources (OER for short) or adapt existing open textbooks. We’re trying to encourage a model of deliberately constructing or reconstructing OER to fit the needs of your learners and not necessarily just to create a textbook.”

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OER Outcomes Course Social Media 143

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The publication, titled Small Districts, Big Hurdles: Cybersecurity Support for Small, Rural, and Under-resourced Districts , offers details on how state agencies and other support organizations are empowering their smallest districts to secure their data and networks.

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Resources Microsoft Advocacy OER 102

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Those in the puppy camp argued, with good reason, that free curricula and OER content were hardly free once the related costs and risks were factored in. So the discovery, vetting, and alignment costs inflicted upon the teachers and districts that would try to embrace free and OER content would remain high.

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OER EdTech Common Core Company 60

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

As K–12 institutions digitally progress, slow data sharing between parents, teachers and administrators is leaving all players increasingly frustrated as they are forced to wait for important information sent through what is quickly becoming an outdated system. Transfer Student Data Seamlessly Across Academic Careers.

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Competency Based Learning OER Data Comparison 183

The Web20Classroom

APRIL 18, 2016

Might not be the best example but that's what happens to educators everyday. The US Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology has placed heavy emphasis on the c reation and use of OER resources in the classroom. This short video does a great job of explaining why OER matters. All open and all free.

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OER Resources Education Examples 100

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. Venegas-Muggli and Werner Westermann.

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Khan Academy OER Case Study System 106

Hapara

APRIL 11, 2022

K-12 schools and districts turn to open educational resources (OER) for their flexibility. When you search for OER, you can find already-created lesson plans or other resources to add to your own class plans. Let’s look at the benefits of using an OER lesson plan and what it looks like. Why use an OER lesson plan?

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OER Differentiated Instruction Hapara Assessment 283

Tom Murray

JUNE 3, 2016

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Andy Marcinek , Chief Open Education Advisor at the US Department of Education (ED), to explore how schools can benefit from Open Educational Resources (OERs) and what is being done in this area nationwide. Office of Education Technology’s GoOpen Site. Stories of EdTech Innovation.

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OER Future Ready Edmodo Education 100

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

OER and open books. They are a perfect example of what you get when you simply transfer analog practice to digital form and don’t make use of the advantages of the new medium. Two that shine are OER/open books and learning analytics. OER and open books also help keep course materials more affordable for students.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 88

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

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. a mixed methodological approach so that we're gathering qualitative data that tells the story about the quantitative findings.

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 193

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Populating the search engine is a collection of more than 1,000 OERs—from sources such as Achieve, UnboundED and statewide orgs like EngageNY—hand-selected by math experts assisting the program. Theoretically, the search tool should improve and refine itself based on data from users, potentially providing more relevant results as time passes.

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OER Elementary Video Tools 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. Right away, we saw an opportunity to look across the diverse set of readings and videos (using closed caption data) to create coherent vocabulary for BHP, including student activities, to help the learners get the most out of the content.

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OER Common Core Video Assessment 115

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. In the last post I provided the following standards and listed the nouns I thought might be important: Example Standards. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites). Is flexible for mixing with other resources.

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 30, 2017

In a recent webinar about OER, organized by one of the major textbook publishers, there was a lot of conversation about whether OER are “free” or “affordable.” Before I begin though, just to be clear, allow me to reaffirm that OER are free, plain and simple, full stop, period. OER = free + permissions.

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OER LMS Analysis Outcomes 67

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

While OER was presented as one way to ease course material costs, other challenges remain, starting with understanding and awareness of what the term means. Still, sustainable ways to fund OER into the future remains an open question. Big Data alone won’t help you find a job—or your ideal candidate.

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OER EdTech Company Data 77

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We shared a blog post on eight approaches making a difference in public education—offering just a few examples of excellence happening in the League everyday. The Cohort topics include Competency-based Professional Learning, Data Interoperability, Engaged Learning, Innovative Assessment, Learner Variability, and Rural Education.

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Data Conference Assessment OER 168

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER. It wraps pre-assessments, in situ formative assessments, and summative assessments around OER. Like Waymaker, OHM wraps these and other features around OER. No one is ever denied access to the OER in Lumen courses for any reason.

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OER LMS Assessment Course 60

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. The most recent data NACS has on the latter behavior is from the fall of 2017, when 4 percent of respondents reported obtaining materials through illegal downloads.

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Course OER Pearson Survey 143

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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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

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. Does OER currenlty exist in the P-12 sector?”

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Trends OER Policies Conference 40

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. Does OER currenlty exist in the P-12 sector?”

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Trends OER Policies Conference 40

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 4, 2017

These permissions are the distinguishing feature of open , whether you’re talking about open educational resources, open source software, open data, or a range of other open things. Or, to operationalize, open pedagogy is the set of teaching and learning practices only possible or practical when you are using OER.

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OER Software Resources Company 108

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The system will also pull in some OER textbook material developed by OpenStax , a low-cost publisher at Rice University. He gave the example of a professor who wants to adopt a popular biology textbook, but doesn’t plan to assign one chapter of it. “So

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Pearson OER Software Course 132

Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

“[One] tenth (11 percent) were using OER materials and 4 percent were currently using OER in their classes and also making their own course materials available as OER.” We’ll discuss this study, and the latest Campus Computing Survey data, with an eye to what they tell us about the future.

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OER Study Survey Education 40

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To hear some OER advocates describe it today in 2024, the same format that was being used in the late 2000s – traditional-looking textbooks published under open licenses – is the state of the art when it comes to open educational resources. OER have also been used as part of personalized, interactive courseware systems, too.

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Strategy OER Education Policies 147

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Hey #OER gurus, rec’d a question about #CreativeCommons BY-NC license & trepidation re using NC stuff specifically in publicly-funded colleges & universities. ” Actually, we have data on that. You may protest, “But those data are a decade old! Safe to use, correct? Mellon Foundation. for users).

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OER Course Report Data 77

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 1, 2015

But as a community, faculty largely accept publishers’ claim that “process = high quality” and don’t ask for outcomes or results data as part of our textbook or other materials adoption process. It’s a blatant attempt by publishers at keeping fresh competition – including OER – at bay.

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OER Outcomes Pearson Resources 60

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 21, 2017

For example, I learned that when I first started writing about open pedagogy in 2013, I made the cardinal mistake of not checking to see if the term might have a long history of use by others in a context completely outside the one I was writing about. ” Imagine, for example, that you want to start your own radio station.

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OER Handbook Examples Accessibility 60

Bryan Alexander

JUNE 24, 2015

Malcolm Brown begins with three major drivers: personalization, hybrid learning, and big data. Malcolm not only grounds each in real-world examples, but gradually interconnects these movements, as we see mobile-first and changes to textbook publishers altering the LMS, for example. Read what follows carefully.

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Technology LMS OER Learning Analytics 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. In the last few posts we discovers nouns that could uncover OER (Open Education Resources) and verbs that could lead to important digital tools that allow for process development. Example Standards. Past Series Articles.

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Blendspace Resources OER Technology 60

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , “Digital Curriculum Development: The Missing Time-Saving Link,” Daniel Ralyea, Director of the Office of Research and Data Analysis at the South Carolina Department of Education, and Mark T. Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The data in the [Linux Foundation’s] Kernel Development report shatter this illusion. 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. A switch to OER makes that happen.

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

These digital tools help students master course learning goals by using data generated from students’ interactions with the adaptive software to predict what students should view or do next online. Instructors can use this data to assess what additional supports students may need on their way to fully understanding each lesson.

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Learning OER Software Course 60

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. For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. Now, make no mistake – OER is a means, not an end.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Sessions discussed them in terms of data analytics. Data analytics were all over the place. Casey Green takes a question, speaking of excellent data. The Sydney-led BEST Network is an example of this, as is the very interesting Smart Sparrow (I hope to blog more about them later on). Many quiet signs of OER.

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