Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
As I’ve been (re-)reading OER adoption research through a more critical lens I’m seeing a recurring pattern of significant threats to validity in the designs of studies purporting to measure the impact of OER adoption on student outcomes. Many research studies fail to address the way instructors end up using OER.
Hapara
JUNE 16, 2022
Open educational resources, also known as OER, provide a great way to supplement curriculum to differentiate instruction and better meet each learner’s needs in your classroom. This use case is the perfect example of when OER can come to the rescue. So what does that mean? What is differentiation? Addressing reading levels.
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 28, 2017
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.
Iterating Toward Openness
MAY 20, 2015
When we exercise that right and explain an idea in our own words (and perhaps other media), we then hold the copyright to our explanations of those ideas. Whenever it is impossible to replace commercial materials with OER for these reasons, we find ourselves in a situation where commercial materials must be used in the course.
Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 13, 2018
We’re using testlets, small bundles of individual outcome-aligned items. On average, we’re looking at a group of four individual items per individual learning outcome. Not just the OER itself, but the chapter and page number…. [I]f You really do need to have every individual item outcome aligned.
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. You might even argue that many popular OER work very hard to closely replicate proprietary textbooks. It enables continuous improvement, which drives gains in outcomes for students.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
The system can also recommend follow-up activities and exercises specific to areas where a student may struggle. We want educators to see how it connects with students and see the impact that curriculum makes on learning outcomes,” she adds. That’s why the partnership with Kiddom is important.
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