Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. That research was conducted by SRI Education and rpk GROUP.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2020

The K-12 curriculum market is “incredibly diverse,” says Jeff Seaman, director of Bay View Analytics (formerly known as Babson Survey Research Group), which conducted the survey. It considered all adoption types, from traditional publishers, to local curriculum creation, to open educational resources (OER). Seaman says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2018

But OER is not free, since it costs money to develop the materials, takes time for professors to evaluate and adopt them, and typically involves other campus-support services as well. A report released last week gives perhaps the most detailed accounting of the pricetag to colleges looking to make signiciant moves to OER.

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OER Study Report Course 141

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

The story behind the latest Horizon Report —which ranks tech trends in higher education—is easily more dramatic than the document’s actual conclusions. Then, as the report neared completion, the New Media Consortium abruptly shut down amid mysterious financial troubles, and it was unclear whether the work would ever reach the public.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 13, 2016

For example, community college adoption of OER depends on the behavior of institutions that most of their students transfer to. described two undergraduates’ experiences with OER. Here are the slides : Second, I will break the audience into small groups, so that each could tackle a different scenario, presented in handouts.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 13, 2016

For example, community college adoption of OER depends on the behavior of institutions that most of their students transfer to. Here are the slides : Second, I will break the audience into small groups, so that each could tackle a different scenario, presented in handouts. That includes a set of scenarios.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. MOOC also offers group collaboration and feedback through online evaluation. It is a software application that helps you create, track, and report training programme or educational courses anywhere using any device.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. You can also share specific texts with individual students or small groups to differentiate instruction and personalize learning. Students will learn about Native American groups in different regions of the country.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

1, 2019), the company reported a more than 20-percent decline in this division. By contrast, Wiley’s academic and research publishing business remains strong, contributing more than half of its revenue.) (Knewton’s CEO Kibby formerly served as president of McGraw-Hill’s Higher Education Group.) Young contributed to this report.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Back in February, an EdWeek Market brief reported that Amazon Education was starting to beta-test a new platform with educators, helping teachers navigate the jungles of open educational resources (or OERs, for short). Tory Patterson, co-founder of Owl Ventures As far as calling itself an OER platform, that is somewhat correct.

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OER Resources Education Software 113

Digital Promise

MAY 17, 2017

The district is also a leader in the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, championing teacher-created content and sharing resources widely. Digital Promise shared the League’s first impact report , which analyzes the results of a League-wide survey that offers a look at the network’s strengths and areas for improvement.

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OER Outcomes Meeting Survey 167

Marketplace K-12

JULY 8, 2016

Supporters of OER also point out that for resources to meet this definition, it’s not enough that resources branded as “open” be free. We’ve reported on the extensive amount of time and effort that district teachers have been forced to commit to reviewing open materials, when their K-12 systems chose to adopt them.

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Software Groups OER Industry 74

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

Public Interest Research Group, each new edition of a textbook cost 12 percent more than the previous one. A report by investment bank Macquarie estimated that print titles made up 45 percent of U.S. The company reported that 55 percent of its $1.3 According to a study by U.S. higher education courseware sales in 2015.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

As a report in The New York Times noted, Amazon appeared to have opened the site without a system in place to review whether users were violating copyright when they uploaded materials—systems that are standard on other collections of user-generated content. Then in July 2017 Amazon tried again, announcing a public beta version of Inspire.

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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.

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OER Outcomes Study Course 109

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In the spirit of iterating toward openness, I’ve recently had the opportunity to revisit some of my earlier thinking about how to measure the impact of OER-related work. I have previously written about metrics I call the educational golden ratio and the OER impact factor. of students passed the course.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 24, 2015

For several years my colleagues and I have been conducting and reviewing empirical research on the impact on student outcomes when OER are adopted in place of commercial materials. Some studies of OER adoption show essentially no change in student outcomes. Suffice it to say the research results are highly variable.

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OER Outcomes Study Course 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

Remind is a good example of this because professors can easily and privately share with a whole class, or groups within a class, relevant course materials. In 2013, PC Magazine reported that people between the ages of 18 to 24 are 16 percent more likely than any other demographic to have a cracked screen.

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 86

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

He declined to disclose the value of the deal, but said the price reported by The Globe and Mail—under $30 million—is in the ballpark. billion by a group of private equity firms, which split the business into two: Cengage and Nelson. Those assets amount to Nelson’s entire domestic higher-ed textbook business in the country.

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Knewton Company OER Pearson 133

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Hey #OER gurus, rec’d a question about #CreativeCommons BY-NC license & trepidation re using NC stuff specifically in publicly-funded colleges & universities. Here I reproduce Figure 15 from the report (p. ” Quoting from the report (p. ” Quoting from the report (p. Safe to use, correct?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. Ben-Naim says the acquisition by Pearson could “affect the plan,” which was to build OER content on Smart Sparrow. ACT, the group best known for its assessment used in college admissions, invested $7.5 million last year from the U.S.

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techlearning

MARCH 15, 2018

In a recent report by Innovative Educator Lisa Nielsen, she writes, “Successful adoption of technology into the curriculum requires a happy marriage between curriculum and technology. Read LIsa’s full report HERE.) The world of learning has evolved rapidly in the past decade. Mobile devices. Social Media. Data Privacy.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 11, 2022

I’ve been interested in sustainability models for OER for decades. Longtime readers may recall that the research group I founded at Utah State University in 2003, the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunities group, became The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning in 2005, which I directed until I moved to BYU.)

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OER Analysis Software Outcomes 147

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

She’s the editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly and a professor of the practice of English at Northeastern University, where she also leads the library’s Digital Scholarship Group. The NEH has been like the sun in this landscape, providing energy and nutrition.” Not a bad investment.”.

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Libraries OER Case Study Robotics 130

Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Therefore I’ve decided to go ahead and share a synthesis of my notes in order to report back to the community as promised. Bring back the conference track on Accessibility and OER. Have more concrete sessions on how to find OER and how to put together a course using OER. Morning yoga.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

It brings together K-12 educators, companies, reporters, university professors, and students to talk about product announcements, implementation strategies and edtech trends. ABCMouse , who’s grouped in with the “big guys” because of its record-making $150M fundraising round , released its flagship K-12 product, ABCMouse for Schools.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 23, 2020

I wanted to include a reading summarizing my current thinking on ‘evaluating the impact of OER’ in the course, so I’m letting some thoughts spill out below. In the past I’ve written frequently about how we evaluate the impact of OER use. and more OER impact research should follow that lead. versus 2.6).

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” OER often shine in their variety and ability to deepen resources for niche topics. ” The article poses three questions and answers them. Below I share some thoughts prompted by the article.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Passages may be assigned to groups or teachers may customize assigned readings to address differences in student interests and abilities. Imagine sharing its reports of issues and growth with parents who can subsequently work with their children in more informed ways. ” Remember the clunkiness of language learning labs?

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Microsoft Education Assessment Data 77

Connecting 2 the World

JULY 27, 2022

Sessions in Creating an Accessible Syllabus, Global OER, Entangled Pedagogy and Liberating Structures may at first seem totally different. For this last group, they only were aware of their small piece of the university. But my mind is always trying to find links and common threads. So needless to say, my mind has been peculating.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

SchoolMessenger Passport allows districts to provide teachers, staff, parents and students with quick and secure access to online learning applications, open educational resources (OER), and a variety of school management and administration software programs using a single sign-on. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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CMS OER Social Media Microsoft 40

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 20, 2020

Please write an annual report. Why a report? But each year I spent time reflecting on the past year and pulling together the many notes and artifacts I’d been collecting into an annual report. It’s important that any report reflects on both pre-pandemic and during pandemic activity.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” Via The Intercept : “Chinese Corporation Alibaba Joins Group Ghostwriting American Laws.” Government Will Travel to Latin America.”

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

They can also incorporate such content-rich resources as library databases, ebooks, videos, and the growing array of available OERs. So one person in the group would make a copy of the worksheet if they wished and share it with their group members to put all their notes in one spot. HyperDocs Facebook Group. Give1Take1.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director of SETDA, offered highlights from the report, and Ryan Kocsondy, Director of Connecticut Education Network (CEN), gave an inside look at why Connecticut schools don’t worry about running out of bandwidth. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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