Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 27, 2019

As the movement grew and more people began advocating for the adoption of OER in place of traditionally copyrighted materials in classes, some advocates chose to make cost the primary focus of their advocacy. This choice rotated licensing into a secondary priority. For example, some schools have ZTC policies and ZTC degree programs.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

While some subjects cover higher education, you can browse the high school section to find math and science textbooks for secondary education. For example, under “Math” you’ll find digital textbooks covering algebra, pre-calculus and calculus. OER Commons. Wikibooks is a public library featuring open-content digital textbooks.

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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. For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. Now, make no mistake – OER is a means, not an end.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I also asked each person to specify their role concerning technology, and there were a lot of different roles: someone running a distance learning program, another in charge of a problem-based learning initiative, a prof looking for good examples of technology in liberal education, a provost to whom several tech departments reported, and more.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Cantwell, Instructional Services Librarian (Asst. Rivers, Executive Director Online Communities of Practice - Are They Worth it? Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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