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OER Had Its Breakthrough in 2017. Next Year, It Will Become an Essential Teaching Tool

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Open educational resources (OER) have long been touted as “the next big thing” in higher education, but the drawn-out hype has led many educators and administrators to wonder if it would ever live up to its expectations. Those days are over: 2017 was OER’s breakthrough year. That happened in 2017. Ohio University is doing the same.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. Learners will read about and discuss rules, decision-making and how to socialize in the classroom. It offers a range of writing exercises specifically written for high school. Find out how H?para

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Why Improving Student Learning is So Hard

Iterating Toward Openness

Faculty exercise this influence in two ways: through the specific activities they assign students to do, and through the ways they support them as they engage in those activities. Change is so complicated and messy there’s an entire discipline dedicated to trying to understand how to successfully support and manage change.

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“Open” Through the Lens of Negative and Positive Liberty

Iterating Toward Openness

My negative liberty is maximized when there is nothing in the law, in society, or elsewhere outside of me that prevents me from exercising my agency in order to accomplish my desires. Say, for example, that I have adopted OER instead of a commercial textbook for my class.

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New Teaching Resource for Digital Literacy

ProfHacker

Now Mike has published an OER textbook, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers. How to Use Previous Work. It might be an interesting exercise to do with a class to “finish” one of the unfinished articles or come up with a suggested assignment or example. Tracking the Source of Viral Photos. Stupid Journal Tricks.

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We Should Pause and Ask the Question

Iterating Toward Openness

It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. P.S. I also have a README that tells how to do it. You might even argue that many popular OER work very hard to closely replicate proprietary textbooks.

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What Is Creative Commons and Why Does It Matter?

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The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Since all Creative Commons licenses require attribution, they can be a good starting point for teaching students about when and how to give credit to authors for their works.

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