Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 19, 2023
The authors then explain these results as follows: There has been a notable increase in the amount of faculty creating and using OER since 2018 (see Figure 39). In 2021, 41 percent of faculty reported using open textbooks, 38 percent have used open video lectures, and 26 percent have used open course modules (see Figure 39).
Hapara
AUGUST 17, 2022
Has your school district started to use open educational resources (OER) yet? Maybe educators in your district have collaborated on finding and curating openly-licensed nonfiction or fiction, videos, images, simulations or audio clips to add to lessons. But has your school district considered K-12 OER textbooks?
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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. This is still a very real risk for OER. ” you might ask.
Edsurge
JANUARY 4, 2018
But who makes the pitch for free or low-cost alternatives to textbooks known as OER, or open educational resources? 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. And it kind of hinders everything.”
NeverEndingSearch
MAY 20, 2020
Please write an annual report. For some of you, this is a regular, end-of-year ritual from which you pull on notes, photos, and videos collected over the months. Why a report? But each year I spent time reflecting on the past year and pulling together the many notes and artifacts I’d been collecting into an annual report.
Hapara
AUGUST 8, 2022
Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? Because these resources are open to use, when you share an OER, other educators across the globe can access it and use it in their classrooms. Types of OER you can develop for K-12. Why you should develop OER for K-12.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
To help adult learners, edtech tools should be designed for their needs and goals, support them in virtually communicating with instructors and classmates and offer them a smooth mobile experience, according to a new report published on behalf of the U.S. It’s a sticking point for a lot of adult learners that we elevate in the reports.”
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