Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 20, 2018

At the OpenEd Conference in 2013, Nicole Allen and I challenged the OER community to save students one billion dollars. SPARC have made the data available under the CC0 dedication and you can download them here. SPARC started with a stratified sample of 120 US post-secondary institutions. The adoption rate of OER is 6.3%.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Digital textbooks are textbooks that teachers and learners can access online or download to their devices. Core Knowledge is a digital textbook source that offers free textbooks online to download, use, adapt and share as long as you include attribution. OER Commons. What are digital textbooks? . Core Knowledge. TextBookGo.

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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. Perhaps Every Learner Everywhere, with their focus on adaptive learning for student success, will be able to fill that need.

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 200

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Central Valley is one of several Beaver County school districts finding ways to supplement or completely replace paper textbooks with online materials such as eBooks, downloadable apps and openly licensed educational resources. The Pennsylvania Legislature is joining the U.S.

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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. It’s free advertising for my 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.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

A pilot program of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has made 12 states’ reviews of secondary math and language arts materials available, with a wide range of K-12 resources from these and other states to follow. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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