Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At OpenEd18 I gave a presentation titled “Questioning the OER Orthodoxy: Is the Commons the Right Metaphor for our Work?” After this brief discussion, I asked “what if the commons is the wrong metaphor for our work with OER?” During the presentation, I shared the following contrasts between a commons and OER.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

One popular draw to open educational resources is that these openly-licensed learning materials can—and are often encouraged to—be tailored for a particular professor or course. Communications librarian Kristen Hoffman oversees much of the OER work at Seattle Pacific University, a Christian university in Washington.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 28, 2021

In other words, even if a person has the time, resources, and technical expertise to revise and remix an open educational resource, the localization process may very well reduce the effectiveness of the resource rather than improve it. Note that some OER are immune to the localization paradox. Here we can name and state a new paradox.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

But it wasn’t until her current gig, serving as an instructor for a course on water supply and demand in California, that she got her feet wet with open educational resources. Coming from educational publishing, there was a strict division between writing and editing and graphic-design work,” says Anagnoson. Now it’s my job.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Millie González and her colleagues aren’t here to argue about whether open educational resources are on par with traditional textbooks?she Six Massachusetts colleges and universities, alongside the state’s Department of Higher Education, are testing their hypothesis that free, culturally relevant textbooks can improve student performance.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

New and traditional publishers are trying to offer alternatives such as open educational resources (OER), or freely downloadable and adaptable learning materials. But some providers of OER still ask for fees in return, and that has advocates concerned. Edward Watson. In 2017, Top Hat nabbed $7.5

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Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

What I do want to comment on (in greater than 140 characters) is the practice of ‘openwashing:’ what it is, why I believe not being able to go beyond a pro-OER elephant test for organizations and service providers is untenable in practice, and some thoughts on what we can do about it. The Pro-OER Elephant Test.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

the internet, knowledge, OER) is a commons. The problems the open education community faces with regard to OER are not the problems of common pool resources – problems of overuse and depletion that we solve through shared governance and accountability. The world needs much more OER. That’s just not a thing.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 5, 2023

Earlier this week I started wondering – what if, in the future, educators didn’t write textbooks at all? Learning to ask useful questions – whether of an LLM, another person, or the universe itself – is directly at the center of the educational enterprise.

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IT Bill

JUNE 27, 2017

The June issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL) is dedicated to Open Educational Resources (OER). Several of the studies focus specifically on OER and student learning outcomes. Certainly one of the main advantages of adopting OER is lowering the costs to students.

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IT Bill

JULY 13, 2018

A recent study at the University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) looked at outcomes for students taking courses using traditional commercial textbooks versus open educational resources (OER). Results of the study found students enrolled in OER sections (both Pell and non-Pell eligible students) earned significantly higher final grades.

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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. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Standards make up the general knowledge of what educators want students to know.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 28, 2019

College learning materials publisher FlatWorld releases a customizable textbook; supplemental education company Infobase acquires Credo Reference; OER courseware provider Lumen raises funds.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I have a chapter about open educational resources that will be appearing in a book on trends and issues in instructional design and technology later this year. So here it is (with some links added to improve readability): Education is sharing. When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

based company, called Argos Education, is that the way textbooks are created and revised is due for a reset. The system will also pull in some OER textbook material developed by OpenStax , a low-cost publisher at Rice University. It’s solution: Create a new marketplace where instructors can find them.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

The story behind the latest Horizon Report —which ranks tech trends in higher education—is easily more dramatic than the document’s actual conclusions. Barajas-Murphy says that Educause is already starting the planning for the 2019 Horizon Report for higher education, which is scheduled for release in February, at the group’s ELI conference.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. Eventually, I was able to find all but three of my 11 textbooks for my master’s degree in educational technology freely available on the library website, not to mention plenty of other materials (e.g., According to. University’s Role.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

McGraw-Hill Education’s recent selection of Knovation’s curated open education content is a signal that publishers and ed-tech providers are jockeying to find ways to take advantage of open education resources. “I don’t see OER as a threat,” said Willig.

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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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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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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

As I understand it, negative liberty refers to the absence of external obstacles, barriers, roadblocks, hinderances, or constraints that interfere with my ability to accomplish my desires. Say, for example, that I have adopted OER instead of a commercial textbook for my class. I also love education. I love open.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 24, 2015

For several years my colleagues and I have been conducting and reviewing empirical research on the impact on student outcomes when OER are adopted in place of commercial materials. Some studies of OER adoption show essentially no change in student outcomes. Suffice it to say the research results are highly variable.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

It brings together K-12 educators, companies, reporters, university professors, and students to talk about product announcements, implementation strategies and edtech trends. CONFUSION AROUND “OPEN”: While Amazon references its platform as “open,” a few questions arose during ISTE as to what it actually means to have a fully-open ecosystem.

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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. We’re at a state where the quality of OER is definitely on the level of content from any publishing company.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I read an article back in June (reference below) that prompted some memories and catalyzed some additional thoughts. Student: I’ll study whether students learn better with OER than with traditional course materials! You’ve likely crossed over into the realm of OER-enabled pedagogy.). Me: Let’s hear it! Me: Let’s hear it!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

We started off attempting to land on a set of definitions for skills—many #DLNchat folks suggested we stray away from the terms “hard skills” and “soft skills” to refer to skills specific to one job vs. skills universal to all jobs. Entangled Solutions felt, “Educators should develop the curriculum - they are curriculum design experts.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 1, 2015

Publishers want “high quality” to mean educational resources that are “written by experts, copyedited by professionals, reviewed by peers, laid out by graphic designers, and provided in multiple formats,” with literally no reference to results. But currently there’s not.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

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. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Yet there is clearly a gap between how educators and entrepreneurs perceive “personalized learning” and many other technology-infused terms in education. Few education entrepreneurs today would suggest that technology should or will replace the teacher. (In In fact, Quartz suggests that education services are the.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We have a similar problem in the open educational resources (OER) space. Many people are in the habit of referring to OER as a commons. OER are not like the shared resources at the center of traditional commons. However, OER are not CPRs. This principle fails to apply to OER in multiple ways.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 28, 2016

Get ready for some daily posts and tweets throughout the conference that bring you the latest in educational theory with a technology twist. The Curriculum Meets Educational Technology… Avoiding Tech Shine. Standards make up the general knowledge of what educators want students to know. Let’s take a look! tools and apps.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 21, 2017

As I continue to ponder the Twitter conversations with Mike, Robin, Maha, and others, as well as what’s been written on blogs like those by Clint (which came before mine) and Jim (which came after), it appears that what is happening is that the “open” in open education is colliding with the “open” in open web. Here’s one.

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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.” the open web, open educational resources, etc.). ” (For more detail, reference the blog posts listed above.).

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