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OER: How to Find, Use and Share Free Teaching Tools and Resources

The CoolCatTeacher

Open education resources (OERs) can help busy teachers everywhere! Do you know how to find them? Today’s guest, Sue Jones, has created a helpful guide to OERs and is using them in her highered classroom. How OER resources can save teachers lots of time. How to share while preventing “stealing.”

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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

Districts having success in this area have comprehensive refresh plans, work with high quality partners, build relationships with local businesses, work diligently to receive grants, and leverage a variety of open educational resources (OERs). Commit to Student Privacy and Clearly Articulate Policies to Stakeholders.

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Join the edWeb Team at ISTE 2015

edWeb.net

Check out Metiri’s Facebook page or follow @MetiriGroup on Twitter. Learn about how to use open educational resources (OER) in your classroom! Net Texts is a two part system designed to make finding and using OER easier. Bring your device to explore our digital learning metrics! Stop by Net Texts at Booth #1454.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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Everything Old is New Again: Textbooks, The Printing Press, The Internet, and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

I’m pretty sure I saw an ad for those “special methods” on Facebook recently. When feedback comes too long after you practice, it’s difficult to understand how to apply it to your current practice. . But – particularly when it comes to OER – we aren’t. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER.

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

Edsurge

In a panel discussion moderated by Mark Phillips (CEO at HireEducation), Graham Forman (Founder of Ednovate) and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge (Portfolio Services Director at Kapor Capital) will talk about the challenges of obtaining funding, and how to overcome those obstacles to get your business started. Higher Ed 12:30 p.m. 11:00 a.m.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition)

Doug Levin

Required reading: Data breach disclosure 101: How to succeed after you’ve failed via Troy Hunt.). This includes legislation and regulations relating to open educational resources (OER), textbook costs, and digital course materials across all levels of education. state-level policies relating to open education.

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