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Navigating the Shift to OER

edWeb.net

Keys to the OER shift: – Community buy-in: The community wasn’t satisfied with the achievement levels and graduation rates. – Vetted OER materials: For every subject, K-12 teachers have a stockbook of vetted OER lessons. This edWeb webinar was hosted by SETDA and sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Washington State Releases K12 AI Guidance

The Thinking Stick

These tools often use data that is biased against students who are multilingual/English language learners. To learn more on how AI can be leveraged in CTE courses check out this webinar I did for Harbor Freight Tools for Schools in support of CTE educators. are my two favorites. This guidance is just the beginning.

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Open Education – Where do I begin?

Tom Murray

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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The Sleight of Hand of “Free” vs “Affordable”

Iterating Toward Openness

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. Problem the First.

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Open education’s long revolution: Cable Green on Future Trends Forum #11

Bryan Alexander

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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Open education’s long revolution: Cable Green on Future Trends Forum #11

Bryan Alexander

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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Recent & Upcoming Conversations on Open & Networked Learning

ProfHacker

The conference may be over, but there have been several virtual events continuing the conversation, such as the Virtually Connecting Missed Conversation Towards Openness , led by Christian Friedrich and Kate Green and an OpenEdSIG follow-up webinar organized by Teresa MacKinnon. Critiques of OER and Open Education.

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