Marketplace K-12

JULY 8, 2016

The Software and Information Industry Association, in a recent online post , said the campaign—which encourages states and districts to consider open options—wrongly suggests that open resources are invariably linked with districts’ shifts to adopting digital materials, whereas commercial materials are stuck in the print world. .”

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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. Challenges to ROI. All of us like to think we do a great job at managing our EROI, but the truth is, very few of us actually do.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 19, 2018

Isn’t there a better metaphor for the work we’re doing in OER than “the commons”? Isn’t there a better way to think about OER than as static content like a PDF? I also found it to be a compelling argument that we consider the coral reef as a new metaphor for our work with OER. Getting to causation.

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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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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The open source software side of the open house has absolutely no issue with commercial entities using or contributing to open source software. ”, you declare, “the overwhelming majority of OER in the world are licensed in ways that permit commercial use, so what’s the problem?” What the heck is going on?

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OER Pearson Microsoft Education 60

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 21, 2017

I defined open pedagogy as ”the set of teaching and learning practices only possible or practical in the context of the 5R permissions” – a definition I have been using in my writing and public speaking since I first blogged about open pedagogy back in 2013 (except there were only 4Rs back then). Here’s one.

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OER Handbook Examples Accessibility 60

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 11, 2022

I’ve been interested in sustainability models for OER for decades. And for just as long, I’ve believed that there are useful lessons for us to learn on this topic from open source software – OER’s far more popular and influential sibling. What does “bug” mean in the context of OER?

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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. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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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.

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OER Instructional Materials Pearson Resources 60

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

This means that you can write your own textbooks, share them, or use them as you would any other OER or open education resource. So there is definitely a moment of scariness, maybe several moments of scariness. This makes Expii valuable for math teachers and students because of your flexibility in using them. What makes Expii unique?

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

The open source movement emerged, with an emphasis on efficiency, and on the rights to use and modify software and tools. Different elements of this history will resonate with different people he said, so that one definition of openness is problematic. Finally, the emergence of Web 2.0

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

I will exclude design, the third component of Michael’s definition, from the discussion that follows and explain why at the end.*. When we ask whether or not content is open, we mean is it openly licensed (is it OER)? When we ask whether or not a software platform is open, we mean is it openly licensed (is it open source)?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Students: General short answers: What tools, software, and technology seemed to be important? What tools, software, and technology not available could have been useful? Parents: General short answers: What tools, software, and technology seemed to be important? Conduct teacher meetings via video conferencing software.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

He attributes this theory to the role Asia now plays in the global economy with automation being software driven, and abundance of material in the market place. OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2016

The most frequently cited definition of OER is the Hewlett Foundation definition : OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open Educational Resources.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2018

An open implementation of RISE was recently published in the Journal of Open Source Software. Not just the OER itself, but the chapter and page number…. [I]f But I definitely want to consider the possibilities with this approach. Matt Crosslin has posted a thoughtful response to our RISE article from last year.

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OER Outcomes Assessment Analysis 93

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 23, 2023

And, because you’ve got to play the hits, let’s look at what their impact will be on OER as well. Definitions and Examples That’s not quite right, but it’s far faster to feed a prompt into ChatGPT and then edit the output to make it accurate than it would be to write that from scratch.

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OER LMS Resources Course 192

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free. Each project aligns with common core and national standards and delivers measurable learning while using free software. In fact this link brings you to the Tinkering STudio.

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STEM Resources Classroom OER 164

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 16, 2016

In many contexts – like open content, open educational resources, open source software, open access, and open data – “open” means “free plus permissions.” Then we end up in endless debates regarding effectively arbitrary definitions. Just for fun, look at Google’s definition of open.

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Resources Education OER Software 60

techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free. Each project aligns with common core and national standards and delivers measurable learning while using free software. Great read to support STEAM thinking in any educational setting.

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STEM Resources Classroom OER 89

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 14, 2016

OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free. Each project aligns with common core and national standards and delivers measurable learning while using free software.

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STEM Resources OER Conference 60

Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

eBooks have changed the definition of textbooks completely. In its simplest form, digital courseware refers to the curriculum delivered through customized software to facilitate teaching and learning. Though digital courseware has a broad definition, all solutions share some common characteristics-.

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eBook Gamification Education OER 98

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 3, 2015

I now have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of general education courses and some specific degree programs will transition entirely to OER in US higher ed. I spent most of my thinking time last week wondering about obstacles in the way of the ubiquitous adoption of OER in US higher education and how we might overcome them.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” Definitely no one I trust more on this topic, no siree. Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “About That Cengage OER Survey.” ” And his partner Michael Feldstein : “ Student-Centered Educational Software.” A Techcrunch op-ed : “Why edtech can’t grow as much as healthtech.”

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 3, 2015

I’m compiling a Storify of examples of this really engaging writing – you should definitely take the time to read through it. The recently published OER strategy document , as informative as it is, reads more like a list of issues and opportunities than what Michael Feldstein describes as “ rungs on a ladder of ambition.”

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OER Education Course Resources 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

I wonder how many schools and districts that use the software have done this? For top students, taking an online course didn’t definitively have a negative effect on a student’s grade point average. ” “​ OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students. .”

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