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On ZTC, OER, and a More Expansive View

Iterating Toward Openness

For the first decade of the modern open education movement (1998 – 2007), the distinguishing feature of our work – the thing we cared most about and talked most about – was the open licensing we applied to educational materials. ” There were two kinds of educational materials in the world. green below).

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10 of the best K-12 sources for digital textbooks online

Hapara

In addition, educators and learners can access them on multiple devices at any time. . While some subjects cover higher education, you can browse the high school section to find math and science textbooks for secondary education. OER Commons. Wikibooks is a public library featuring open-content digital textbooks.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

But these are secondary causes. Decrease in State Funding: The government has been scaling back on the funding on college education since the great recession of 2008. Post the recession, states cut inflation-adjusted spending on K–12 education by approximately 4% between 2008 and 2013. This adds up to the tuition fees.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

Edsurge

Today, Top Hat announced it has reached an agreement to acquire more than 400 higher education textbooks from Nelson, one of the biggest educational publishers in Canada. Should the Nelson deal pass, Top Hat will boast more than 1,000 titles in its library. And it just may have found a key piece to make that strategy click.

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‘Prohibition Will Get You Nowhere’: Writer and Activist Cory Doctorow’s Message to Schools and Educators

Edsurge

It’s one reason why writer and activist Cory Doctorow thinks schools and educators should rethink their approach to surveillance and censorship. at Worldcon, a science fiction convention, to get his take on everything from surveillance in K-12 schools to open access publishing in higher education. I wanted to ask you about OERs.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

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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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

It was a powerful gathering of campus leaders and practitioners, organized around a common focus on liberal education. I helped start the conference with a half-day workshop on “How Technology Can Enhance Liberal Education: The State of the Art in 2016.” Consensus was: next steps, the future of tech and liberal education.