Iterating Toward Openness
JULY 23, 2018
By definition, open educational resources (OER) are licensed in a manner that gives you permission to change, update, and improve them. Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning.
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
AUGUST 10, 2016
Because I can’t stop thinking about open, I’ve been pondering the relationship between solar power and OER. At the same time, I’ve been thinking about how to answer several questions I’m often asked. ”, “How can you sell OER if they’re free? OER are a lot like sunlight.
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 New York Times : “ Karlie Kloss Teaches Teenage Girls How to Code.” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “First Ed-Tech Trade Mission by U.S.
Doug Levin
MARCH 12, 2017
Tagged on: March 8, 2017 New Solutions—Not Just New Winners—In the Curriculum Marketplace | New America → Innovative uses of OER offer an entirely new way of answering the question of how we solve for inefficiencies in the curriculum marketplace, rather than just advocating for new winners.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
” Testing, Testing… Via Edsurge : “How to Overcome Apathy and Disillusionment When Standardized Tests Fail Kids.” Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics.” ” Inside Higher Ed also looks at how data is being talked about at the higher ed ed-tech event.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. Course Signals. Channel One (and the Unsinkable Chris Whittle).
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