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As Campuses Move to Embrace OER, College Libraries Become Key Players

Edsurge

But who makes the pitch for free or low-cost alternatives to textbooks known as OER, or open educational resources? Increasingly, the answer is the campus library. One project she led this year involved creating a series of videos promoting “Textbook Heroes,”professors who have replaced commercial textbooks in their courses with OER.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. “As LinkedIn’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges,” Edsurge reported in June. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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On building learning playlists

NeverEndingSearch

Some of my colleagues use Lynda.com to gather playlists from specific elements selected across the hundreds of offered courses. TES Lessons Library. OER and you: The curation mandate. Curation (School Library Monthly). OER: Issues, Possibilities and the Promise of Curation (with Brenda Boyer). LessonPaths.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The NAACP endorses OER. ” (It’ll run on LinkedIn Learning , formerly Lynda.com , which means it’ll cost you $24.99 The NMC Horizon Report 2017 – the Library Edition. .” (“What do we really know about the value of prekindergarten?” ” Good grief, the handwringing.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The American Library Association announced its youth media awards. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. ” Via The Christian Science Monitor : “Why Cal State L.A. turns the most low-income students into top earners.” ” Contests and Awards.