Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In response, open educational materials, or OER, have emerged as an alternative to expensive textbooks that disproportionately affect low-income students. But as more open materials become accessible, advocates for open education still see room for improvement. What open education is saying though, is “yes, and.”

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

David Wiley, a pioneer of open education resources who co-founded Lumen Learning , a for-profit company that supports OER efforts, sees one place where textbooks could actually be vanquished by openly licensed alternatives: community colleges. In fact, that day may not be far off. How do you deal with that? How do you deal with that?

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edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

Keys to the OER shift: – Community buy-in: The community wasn’t satisfied with the achievement levels and graduation rates. . In addition, while they educators are still responsible for helping students reach state standards and community growth expectations, one-third of lesson time is spent on items not on the state standards.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In traditional science classrooms, students are often presented with facts and definitions to memorize, or they are asked to follow a predetermined set of instructions to complete a lab activity. However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

During that time, I got to know my special education students better and more quickly than others because each had an individualized education program (IEP). Data collection inherent to the IEP process enables educators to more easily personalize learning, pinpointing opportunities for growth, as well as learner strengths.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 26, 2016

This post is based on a presentation Suzan and Maha gave this year at the OER16 conference in Edinburgh. When we look at common definitions of Open Educational Resources or OERs (e.g., What if we focus on these practices as much as educational content in our conversations on open educational resources?

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 13, 2016

Today I traveled to Fredericksburg, Virginia, to participate in the University of Mary Washington ‘s Open Education Resources Summit , organized by the excellent Steven Greenlaw. For example, community college adoption of OER depends on the behavior of institutions that most of their students transfer to.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 13, 2016

Today I traveled to Fredericksburg, Virginia, to participate in the University of Mary Washington ‘s Open Education Resources Summit , organized by the excellent Steven Greenlaw. For example, community college adoption of OER depends on the behavior of institutions that most of their students transfer to.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Your school or district can also use digital textbooks that are part of open educational resource (OER) repositories. There are several high-quality OER sites that feature digital textbooks for K-12. Digital textbooks don’t present the same problem. You can save money to use in other high-need learning areas.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. Rich shares that he spent some time recently at the Buck Institute for Education , which focuses on Project Based Learning. para, where he explains how PBL and OER go hand-in-hand. .

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. Here’s the good news: Our government edtech officials are convinced that librarians should play a role in curating the burgeoning number of open educational resources (they gave us several shout-outs and ensured we were there).

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K12 Open Ed

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

A few us have been pondering the question “ How can we best advance the adoption of OER in K-12? There is currently a good amount of high quality, standards-aligned OER in K-12 with lots more coming online. With regards to OER, many states have approved, recommended, and/or endorsed the use of OER.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Be on the look out for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources.

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K12 Open Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

I have written before about the connections between OER and open practice and why I think open practice should be the goal, not merely the adoption of OER. While I hope and believe that OER can pave the way for open practice, it is not at all obvious that the use of OER is a necessary condition. The answer is scale.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 6, 2015

Whether you know it or not, most educators have already started creating their own open educational resources (OER) in the form of tests, handouts, and presentations. Bringing them on online to share with other educators is just the natural next step. Next page: Advice to follow.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 19, 2015

For almost three years Lumen Learning has been helping faculty, departments, and entire degree programs adopt OER in place of expensive commercial textbooks. Or, more correctly, people. It’s About People. You never end up making exactly what you planned, but you always end up making something better.

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Hapara

APRIL 11, 2022

K-12 schools and districts turn to open educational resources (OER) for their flexibility. When you search for OER, you can find already-created lesson plans or other resources to add to your own class plans. Let’s look at the benefits of using an OER lesson plan and what it looks like. Why use an OER lesson plan?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

It’s a question that some higher education instructors have asked before, and one that two Penn State University educators sought to answer on Wednesday at this year’s EDUCAUSE conference in Denver. BBookX uses artificial intelligence to create OER texts for professors to use in their courses instead of traditional textbooks.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

s of workshops and presentations. Ten Engaging Digital Education Sites For Any Social Studies Classroom ( [link] ). You will discover a wide variety of materials including readings, OER (Open Education Resources), primary documents, textbooks, lessons, activities, interactives, videos, audios, and some great blog readings.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 10, 2020

Last year I created an un-styled, (hopefully) easy-to-reuse slide deck about Creative Commons, the 5Rs, and OER. I helped design the new Creative Commons Certification course, taught the first two sections offered, and am the Education Fellow at CC.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 27, 2016

Vicki Davis organized the panel to answer each topic quickly as short mini presentations which made the hour go by quickly.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In that context, that non-disclosure may be revealing for how far Knewton, which has been one of the most well-funded education technology companies, has fallen short of financial expectations. Wiley, once a major publisher of higher-education materials, has seen its education publishing business shrink over the years.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), one of the 12 partner organizations of Every Learner Everywhere, was charged with identifying and understanding innovations in the digital education landscape. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

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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. a semester. I thought it was just as helpful as any other textbook.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 5, 2018

This is another post in my series of posts showing gratitude and appreciation for members of the open education community. From their website: The Open Textbook Network (OTN) helps higher education institutions and systems advance the use of open textbooks and practices on their campuses. OTN is a membership organization.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2018

As the title of the document makes explicit, the framework aims to contribute to the conversation about the sustainability of OER: “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship” It’s a valuable contribution to that conversation. I struggle to see how this will be possible.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

tl;dr – In order to be relevant today and in the future, a national open education strategy must (1) know exactly what it is trying to accomplish and (2) deeply integrate generative AI. WICHE is convening a series of conversations this week and next titled, “ Do We Need a National Open Education Strategy?

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Why are open educational resources free? If not, it’s probably because a definition of open like “free plus permissions” simply asserts that things must be free in order to qualify as OER. OER are free because you have permission to make as many copies as you like. . Have you ever stopped to think about that?

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Text question from Ed Finn: OER Game Changer – Moodle Community could separate it from Canvas and Blackboard who keep these types of sharing resources behind a wall. What is the present and future direction by Moodle on this important topic? I’d like to reproduce them here, edited very lightly.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

But our adult basic education programs can only serve roughly four million of those adults. This gap between the need and available educational services has prompted calls for innovative ways to improve access to quality educational resources. We developed a Design Guide for students to follow. Introduce open licensing.

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Two months ago I invited people to respond to a survey regarding the Open Education Conference and how it can be improved. The suggestions that came up at least twice in the responses and conversations were: Include “Discussions” as a new presentation type. Include “Poster Sessions” as a new presentation type.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. Faculty Capacity and Support.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

June 17, 2021 (Washington, D.C.) – The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) announced that Dr. Karen Richardson, Executive Director, Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE) was selected as the recipient of the inaugural Candice Dodson Influencer Award (CDIA).

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Dear Bonni, In the midst of this current COVID situation, I'm looking to up my game … as an educator … especially in the online environment. I’m wondering if you might recommend what top three books would you suggest I read outside of ‘Urgency for Teachers,’ ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed,’ ‘The New Education?’

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Cross-posted from the Open Education Group website. At #OpenEd14 John Hilton presented a summary of all the empirical research on the impact of OER adoption that we could find. We’ll keep this page up-to-date as we come across additional articles that actually take a solid empirical look at the impacts of OER adoption.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

In this post I would like to introduce you to way that you can ensure the standards are amplified, and not ignored, by the integration of educational technology. Check out this wonderful magazine for some great K12 educational articles, I will be presenting at Alan November’s BLC in Boston in July.

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