NeverEndingSearch
AUGUST 21, 2016
She began developing the concept for CommonLit while studying education policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. CommonLit is a fine example of OER curation and OER creation that belongs in every librarian’s toolkit. Commonlit.org | Facebook. CommonLit on Twitter. Sign Up for the CommonLit Newsletter.
Edsurge
JANUARY 9, 2018
One crucial part of the decision is out of the students’ hands, of course, since it is the professor who decides what textbook or material to assign—or whether to skip commercial textbooks altogether and assign a free or low-cost open educational resource, or OER. I thought it was just as helpful as any other textbook.”
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Edsurge
JUNE 26, 2017
Black-box software, as OER pioneer and Lumen Learning’s Chief Academic Officer, David Wiley writes, “reduce all the richness and complexity of deciding what a learner should be doing to—sometimes literally— a ‘Next’ button.”. This is a mistake. It took a lawsuit to get Google to stop scanning students’ emails.
Tom Murray
JANUARY 12, 2016
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).
Doug Levin
AUGUST 20, 2017
As a professor who studies technology integration in K-12 schools, I can say the answer is yes, but there are some critical caveats." This includes legislation and regulations relating to open educational resources (OER), textbook costs, and digital course materials across all levels of education. Tagged on: August 12, 2017.
Edsurge
MARCH 1, 2017
Let’s Chat.Bots in Higher Education : What if all of your college questions could be answered by sending a text or Facebook message? One recent study found “widespread acceptance of alternative credentialing programs at American colleges and universities.” Higher Ed 12:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes?
Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 13, 2019
I’m pretty sure I saw an ad for those “special methods” on Facebook recently. Leonhardt calls these “lecture texts” and further describes them as “an inexpensive copy of the text under study, mass-produced, as it were, with the ‘blanks’ to be filled in” (p. But – particularly when it comes to OER – we aren’t.
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