Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Open educational resources hit a turning point in 2018. For the first time ever, the federal government put forward funds to support initiatives around open educational resources, and recent studies show that faculty attitudes towards using and adapting these openly-licensed learning materials are steadily improving.

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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. He writes software one time and you just sell it, sell it, sell it.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Back in February, an EdWeek Market brief reported that Amazon Education was starting to beta-test a new platform with educators, helping teachers navigate the jungles of open educational resources (or OERs, for short). The search capabilities of Amazon Inspire. In support of Amazon’s commitment to the U.S.

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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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ProfHacker

AUGUST 26, 2016

When we look at common definitions of Open Educational Resources or OERs (e.g., But what if we adopt a different perspective, a broader understanding of OERs, which includes the processes and products of open scholarship as valuable, and viable, resources too?

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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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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

The amount of new acronyms in the educational technology world is staggering… and often overwhelming for educators. CREATE – Collaboartion, Resources, Educate, Apps, Technology, Enriching. GAFE – Google Apps For Education (include Google Docs, Google Sites etc). DOK – Depth Of Knowledge. MLD – Mobile Learning Devices.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Department of Education. Called “Changing the Equation: Empowering Adult Learners with Edtech,” it’s the culmination of three years of research commissioned by the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education through its Power in Numbers initiative. People tend to have ‘math trauma,’” Ward says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Or at least, edited.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 8, 2016

School districts across the country are experimenting with “open” educational resources–and they’re getting strong encouragement from the Obama administration. ” Backers of open education resources often define them as materials released under licenses that allow for their free use, repurposing, and modification as users see fit.

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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. You can think about it as almost an Amazon-like self-publishing system plus Amazon Kindle store plus Amazon Kindle reader software for courseware,” said Feldstein. A key premise of the Lexington, Mass.-based

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The open source software side of the open house has absolutely no issue with commercial entities using or contributing to open source software. To my mind, this commitment demonstrates a level of maturity that the open education side of the open house has yet to achieve. What the heck is going on? “But wait!”,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. Yet many teachers still ask: “Why can’t I find the open educational resources I’m looking for?” Last year, the U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The secret to its swift entry into publishing was OER (open education resources). Rather than hire authors to write textbooks from scratch, the company is now curating open-educational materials already on the internet. Knewton’s pitch is that its mix of OER and an adaptive-learning system will set it apart.

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Knewton Strategy OER Pearson 111

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Using mobile for educational purposes is a slightly new concept. If correctly implemented, it can make e-learning an extensive new way of education and provide an all-around scope. It is a software application that helps you create, track, and report training programme or educational courses anywhere using any device.

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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. Pressbooks (Book Oven Inc.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

The biggest education company in the world is moving away from a production model that has been one of the main drivers in the rising cost of textbooks. higher education courseware sales in 2015. Studies have shown that publishers previously justified raising prices by bundling textbooks with supplemental software that are rarely used.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Last summer the world’s largest online retailer launched Amazon Inspire, touting it as a hub for educators to exchange lesson plans and other Open Education Resources. Some wonder when it will be open to the wider education community (and what the company’s broader education strategy is). Department of Education.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

I’ll be writing a range of essays this year reflecting on two decades of work toward opening the core intellectual infrastructure of education (textbooks and other educational materials, assessments, and outcomes / objectives / competency statements) in order to increase access to and improve the effectiveness of education.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

For starters, I have now been going on four years since transitioning from high school principal to Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE). Personalized and blended learning pathways were proclaimed to be the future of education. How are we preparing learners for this world?

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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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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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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2021

It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. If you start with my github repo, you can build an LMS, a web site, an online teaching system, and even a camera ready textbook ready for printing using 100% free software.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

Anyway, here’s another page to add to the pile… In commenting on the recent announcement about the partnership between Follett and Lumen, Stephen asks : What if students don’t want to pay money for these ‘open’ educational resources? Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER.

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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

APRIL 4, 2017

For many years we have seen openwashing among companies working in the education space, in which they either knowingly or accidentally attempt to equate “open” with something other than a free grant of the 5R permissions. But that’s not what open means. ” Free plus what? Why does it matter?

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2019

Every year, our district has to balance the diverse needs of low-socioeconomic rural students with higher-performing feeder patterns, transient student populations, a growing English learner population, educator and student retention, and annual budget pressures. This is a paradigm shift away from traditional public education thinking.

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OER Outcomes Analysis Assessment 89

EmergingEdTech

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

OpenStax College is Testing Embedded Coaching Software for Their OER Textbooks … and YOU can Help. More and more teachers, administrators, and #edtech enthusiasts like yours truly are becoming. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

The report defines self-paced courseware as being accessed on a desktop or laptop and spanning the K-12, higher education, corporate training, and privately marketed software (such as that produced by language-learning company Rosetta Stone) sectors. market is the trend toward open and free educational resources, or OER.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 6, 2017

It is quite possible that your catalog is the most expensive piece of software in your building. Collections can help reduce instructional planning and research time, maximizes visibility and usage of your educational resources, and encourages deeper learning in and outside the classroom. Are you leveraging it to its fullest potential?

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 12, 2015

Before the Internet, educational materials were printed, making them scarce resources. Scarcity was a defining attribute of educational resources. Since the Internet, educational materials have become digital, making them abundant resources. See Efficacy, the Golden Ratio, and the OER Impact Factor.).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Join me today, February 11th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Wayne Mackintosh on designing an "Open Educational Resources" (OER) university and creating free learning for all students worldwide. Wayne is a strategy innovator with a passion for making educational futures happen. Qualifications Ph.D.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

In describing her coining of the phrase “open source software” in 1998, Christine Peterson wrote : The introduction of the term “open source software” was a deliberate effort to make this field of endeavor more understandable to newcomers and to business, which was viewed as necessary to its spread to a broader community of users.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

But as Betsy Corcoran outlined in her July 2014 article , some companies had yet to deliver on their promise of clearly outlining how educators could apply for those products and services. “If Esri has granted 200,000 students access to its professional online GIS mapping software for doing projects. Take Adobe , for example.

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