Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

One crucial part of the decision is out of the students’ hands, of course, since it is the professor who decides what textbook or material to assign—or whether to skip commercial textbooks altogether and assign a free or low-cost open educational resource, or OER. I thought it was just as helpful as any other textbook.”

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Company OER Course Libraries 133

ProfHacker

APRIL 23, 2018

We’ve written a lot at ProfHacker about OER and Open Access resources. hope that this chapter will inspire those of us in education to focus our critical and aspirational lenses on larger questions about the ideology embedded within our educational systems and the ways in which pedagogy impacts these systems.

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OER Examples System Resources 68

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2019

We realized that the key to solving this complicated equation was to put into place a system that captured, tracked, and managed our educational ROI, or EROI. 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. Taking control of the ‘why’.

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OER Outcomes Analysis Assessment 86

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Alta at a Glance With Alta, Knewton aims to combine third-party open educational resources (OER) with assessments and the adaptive-learning technology created by the company to inform how students progress through the content. Get a question right, and the system will likely offer something more difficult or advanced.

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Knewton OER Pearson Adaptive Learning 64

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

DECEMBER 13, 2016

We each use this license with the OER that we create and advocate for others to do the same. The BY license best reflects our values of eliminating friction, maximizing interoperability, and promoting unanticipated and innovative uses of OER. In 2001 Richard Baraniuk released his open textbook Signals and Systems.

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OER Pearson Secondary Examples 60

Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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Data LMS Competency Based Learning OER 100

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2019

Among other things, the post discusses her role in my decision to abandon the phrase “open pedagogy” and adopt the phrase “OER-enabled pedagogy.” Evolving ‘Open Pedagogy’ (2014) extends the definition discussion by briefly meditating on the ubiquitous, smothering role of copyright in our lives.

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OER Technology Exercises Online Learning 113

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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OER Analysis Software Outcomes 147

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. OER Portals Pearltrees.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

Marketplace K-12

JULY 8, 2016

Supporters of OER also point out that for resources to meet this definition, it’s not enough that resources branded as “open” be free. If a district abandons commercial materials for a portion of its curriculum, that process of identifying and curating open resources can be a big lift for K-12 systems.

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Software Groups OER Industry 74

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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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

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

And if we use the Creative Commons license system, we can basically pull all of this global knowledge from our wonderful teachers and our students and collect – we don’t have to collect other people’s questions; we can write our own questions. So there is definitely a moment of scariness, maybe several moments of scariness.

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Classroom OER Software System 222

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

Of course, there is still Flipped Learning, 1 to 1 Programs, Blended Learning, Maker Movements, Genious Hours, SAMR, Learning Targets, 21st Century Learning, the 4C’s, Personalised Learning, Digital Textbooks, and OER! Students will be able to research and record key facts involving the planets of the solar system.

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Resources OER Learning STEM 105

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It takes a month for us to get all of our data into their systems, whether it be a manual upload or synced through Clever. I don’t know if we’re going to get there, but it would definitely help us get things to students faster. The OneRoster (standard) is a good one. The other piece is to check out # GoOpen states.

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OER E-rate Broadband Future Ready 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This mini-conference will center on the concept of "Sustainable Thinking" which aligns the core values of libraries with the "Triple Bottom Line" definition of sustainability--i.e. We currently have 3800 The schedule is below the keynote panelists listings. A mini-conference FAQ (frequently asked questions) page is here.

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Libraries Conference OER System 48

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For many years now what people call OER advocacy has actually been “zero textbook cost” advocacy. Consequently, in order to get a grant program created in your department / institution / system / state / country you have to focus on the amount of money the program will save constituents.

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Policies OER Advocacy Education 99

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Here’s the definitive answer in the form of a tweet from Springshare itself : Now, back to the session. Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). offering virtual science laboratories for dissection, examination of organs, systems, etc.–opportunity How do you pronounce LibGuides ? Grades 2 and up.

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Trends Libraries OER Microsoft 42

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This mini-conference will center on the concept of "Sustainable Thinking" which aligns the core values of libraries with the "Triple Bottom Line" definition of sustainability--i.e. the intersection of environmental stewardship, social equity, and economic feasibility--to inspire investment and build support for your library in the future.

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Libraries Conference OER Groups 36

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This mini-conference will center on the concept of "Sustainable Thinking" which aligns the core values of libraries with the "Triple Bottom Line" definition of sustainability--i.e. the intersection of environmental stewardship, social equity, and economic feasibility--to inspire investment and build support for your library in the future.

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Libraries Conference OER System 36

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” “How Should Colleges Approach Student Success When Different Definitions Abound?” Government Will Travel to Latin America.”

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

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

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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OER LMS Secondary Course 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. The idea of eLearning progressed and soon incorporated the Learning Management System (LMS). At this level there needs to be a determination of what type of delivery system will be used. Determine those PD steps as discussed in part 2.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Another example might be the teacher curating the curriculum for students using their LMS (Learning Management System). There really is a definite change in the lesson that may have started with an analog foundation.

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Resources Technology Examples STEM 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

Engineering firms want people who have passion, are willing to be life-long learners, are systems thinkers, have multicultural values, and can understand interdisciplinary context. 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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STEM Resources OER Conference 207

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2018

The biggest concern I have with the RISE framework really comes here: ‘The framework assumes that both OER content and assessment items have been explicitly aligned with learning outcomes, allowing designers or evaluators to connect OER to the specific assessments whose success they are designed to facilitate’….

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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

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 23, 2020

The Definition of “Open Textbook”. The proposed definition of “open textbook” reads, in part: “An open textbook may also include a variety of open educational resources or materials used by instructors in the development of a course and those learning activities necessary for successful completion of a course by students.

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Assessment LMS Exercises Outcomes 85

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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OER Software Data Accessibility 60

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. You will get a new definition of exploring through the Exploratorium, The Art Institute of Chicago – Explore these wonderful lessons that cover Science and the Arts.

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STEM Resources Classroom OER 164

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. You will get a new definition of exploring through the Exploratorium, The Art Institute of Chicago – Explore these wonderful lessons that cover Science and the Arts.

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STEM Resources Classroom OER 88

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. You will get a new definition of exploring through the Exploratorium, The Art Institute of Chicago – Explore these wonderful lessons that cover Science and the Arts.

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STEM Resources OER Conference 60

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 27, 2016

Systemic change is needed even in schools where there are isolated pockets of excellence, as all students should be exposed to the power of awe. In my definition innovation is creating, implementing, and sustaining transformative ideas that instill awe to improve learning. To do this we must innovate our practice.

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Learning OER Gamification Policies 250

Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

eBooks have changed the definition of textbooks completely. Though digital courseware has a broad definition, all solutions share some common characteristics-. Open Educational Resources (OER) Products – OER course products are developed based on open resources and utilize instructional design and professional services.

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eBook Gamification Education OER 98

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

A Wi-Fi system. In other Salesforce news, “The University of Texas System teams up with Salesforce to turn its learning platform into a learning relationship management system ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Definitely no one I trust more on this topic, no siree.

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63