Doug Levin
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
I’ve established that I am a fan of open educational resources (OER) and think that K-12 educators and policymakers would benefit from thinking more deeply about the ownership of instructional materials. ” It’s almost as if they are confused about the definition of the term. How does OER help educators and students?
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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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.
eSchool News
APRIL 5, 2019
Managing our EROI by identifying ineffective spending and re-deploying those resources back into more effective tools, resources, and programs for our students incrementally boosts student achievement by definition. Related: 4 surefire ways to get more for your edtech dollar. Challenges to ROI. In large part, it’s not our fault.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. The goal is to not give readers a list of words and definitions to memorize, but rather to get them familiar with words and their place in language and knowledge. Finding good lessons, videos, articles and activities is hard. Source: BHP.
Edsurge
JUNE 27, 2016
Back in February, an EdWeek Market brief reported that Amazon Education was starting to beta-test a new platform with educators, helping teachers navigate the jungles of open educational resources (or OERs, for short). Tory Patterson, co-founder of Owl Ventures As far as calling itself an OER platform, that is somewhat correct.
K12 Open Ed
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
To be clear, I am not talking about open educational resources (OER), but rather open learning practices. (Is By definition, this means that not every student is doing the same thing at the same time. EdTech Update Uncategorized open openeducationweek openeducationwk' Is there a common term people are using for this?
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