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When is an OER an OER?

Iterating Toward Openness

tl ;dr – If a resource is licensed in a way that grants you permission to engage in the 5R activities, and grants you those permissions for free, it’s an open educational resource (OER) – no matter where you find it or how it’s being used. Consider the following scenarios: A person downloads an OER to their laptop.

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?Scaling Mobile Technology for Community College Students: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs

Edsurge

After three years of utilizing a BYOD (bring your own device) policy with my classes at Nassau Community College, I have seen how tools like tablets and laptops can lead to better academic engagement. Many of my students find themselves composing essays across a variety of devices, phones, personal laptops or campus desktops.

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How to Boost Classroom Engagement With the Tech Tool That 'Always Works'

Edsurge

One of the great things with Vivi is that it works with laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, Android tablets. You were once a junior high teacher. Do you ever imagine how your practice might have been different had you had this tool?

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Small District Offers Students Big Possibilities

Education Superhighway

When Superintendent Tim Farquer was faced with replacing some of the district’s outdated textbooks, he knew he couldn’t buy new materials and supply his 300 students with laptops. The decision to be an early adopter of OER put the one-school district on the map, earning a visit in 2015 from then-U.S.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. If educational institutes start adopting OERs in classrooms, students will be able to save a lot of money that would otherwise be spent on purchasing textbooks and rental subscriptions.

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Do We Need a National Open Education Strategy?

Iterating Toward Openness

To hear some OER advocates describe it today in 2024, the same format that was being used in the late 2000s – traditional-looking textbooks published under open licenses – is the state of the art when it comes to open educational resources. OER have also been used as part of personalized, interactive courseware systems, too.

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Digital natives still clamor for print materials

eSchool News

-Early afternoon at the California State University, Sacramento, student union, and noses are buried in screens big and small – laptops, tablets and smartphones, all glowing and demanding attention. He’s using it to prop up his laptop, open to an electronic text he’s perusing.

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