Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 27, 2019
As the movement grew and more people began advocating for the adoption of OER in place of traditionally copyrighted materials in classes, some advocates chose to make cost the primary focus of their advocacy. This choice rotated licensing into a secondary priority. Other schools have OER policies and OER degree programs.
Hapara
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
While some subjects cover higher education, you can browse the high school section to find math and science textbooks for secondary education. OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). Wikibooks is a public library featuring open-content digital textbooks.
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Kitaboo on EdTech
JUNE 13, 2019
But these are secondary causes. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations. 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. These are basically free.
Edsurge
MAY 26, 2020
Should the Nelson deal pass, Top Hat will boast more than 1,000 titles in its library. For Nelson, this sale marks its first step in its “strategic decision to withdraw from the post-secondary market,” it said in an announcement. More than 90 percent of its users are in the U.S.,
Iterating Toward Openness
APRIL 25, 2019
I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses.
Edsurge
AUGUST 28, 2018
I wanted to ask you about OERs. In terms of open access [journals] like [Public Library of Science]… they're leading edge. When I go and do young adult tours, and I go to secondary schools, I meet students who've read Little Brother, and they're like, "How do I hack my school's censorware?" Why do you think that is?
Bryan Alexander
JANUARY 24, 2016
Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education. One person thought shifting tertiary school content down to secondary could help reduce adjunctification, by (I think) reducing teaching hours in colleges. For example , Kristin Vogel : “Libraries ally, champion and offer expertise on this very value.
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