Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. If OER adoption were to become widespread among the majority of faculty, it became clear that someone would need to do something more than create OER, post it on a website, and give conference talks about it. Background and Some Problems.

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OER LMS Learning Sakai 60

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Last week I promised I would write a few posts about reducing friction with regard to OER. In last week’s post I talked about how we’re making it ridiculously easy for students, faculty, and others to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of OER. “How much easier could it be? A Wide-Scale Shift.

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OER Secondary Software Outcomes 96

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. a month.). .” Increased by just 2, but still.).

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

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. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145