Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 10, 2020

I posted the first installment yesterday, explaining how a fundamental failure to understand copyright makes the definition of OER in the new UNESCO recommendation nonsensical. In this second installment, I want to describe how it appears that many in the OER community have taken their eye off the ball.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 12, 2022

Faculty exercise this influence in two ways: through the specific activities they assign students to do, and through the ways they support them as they engage in those activities. Therefore, students will likely engage in more effective learning behaviors ONLY IF their faculty assign them more effective learning activities.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2017

Increased student engagement? Teachers, meanwhile, can track student progress in a meaningful way and introduce any outside learning materials that they deem relevant, from supplemental readings and activities to wikis, OER (Open Educational Resources) and videos. The ability to facilitate differentiation?

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

Not only do students benefit when they see what they’ve created matters, but the resources teachers create and share publicly support their own professional learning as well. In Digital Promise Global’s Learning Studios program, students in Australia connected with students in California to virtually play board games they each had designed.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Intellus Learning allows instructors to access high-quality open education resources (OER) and other openly licensed content, as well as their institution’s academic library materials to help meet budgetary goals. Where to Find & Curate OER Resources ] Faculty can curate and assign pertinent OER and library content to students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

Has there been an impact on student engagement? She no longer feels that she has to have the same lesson for everyone or that everyone has to always be in the same place. And she can quickly answer questions from wherever she's at.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In the mid-late aughts and early teens, when I was still serving as chair for doctoral students, I often had conversations like this: Student (bursting into my office): I have an exciting idea for my dissertation research! Student: I’ll study whether students learn better with OER than with traditional course materials!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For some folks in higher ed, the very idea of using open educational resources (OER) sparks dread. Visions of poorly edited texts that—when printed—turn into heaps of misformatted pages may cause professors (and students) to blurt out an immediate, “No thanks!” He and his students happily use open educational resources for textbooks.

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 11, 2011

How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement tags: twitter favorite Cyberbullying: An International Perspective | DMLcentral tags: cyberbullying favorite Tony Vincent''s Learning in Hand - Project Based Learning tags: pbl projectbasedlearning mobilelearning mlearning favorite What Does "Technology Integration" Mean?

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Working in tech and media for the past 20 years, I’ve seen some of these changes firsthand, and one thing has proven consistently true: Engagement is critical when learning new information and mastering new skills. Incorporating gaming into education doesn’t necessarily mean more screen time. Visit Classcraft at ISTE Booth #970.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In addition, we also wished to increase the quality of the learning experience and student engagement with course topics while reducing costs for students and CPCC. Now, students now only pay $25 per semester. We also replaced the $150 textbook we were using with open education resources (OER).

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Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

Given the rise of OER (of which I am a fan ), an increasing array of business models, questions about the degree of alignment to state standards and assessments, claims of effectiveness, and interoperability concerns, the instructional materials procurement decisions facing school districts have never been more complicated. Image credits.

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Hapara

MARCH 17, 2022

Mr. Stone locates openly licensed content found on OER Commons and uploads it within the Student Dashboard Digital Backpack. Staff collaboration with Student Dashboard Digital Backpack. the staff at Mrs. Perkins’s school gathers for their monthly grade-level Professional Learning Community on the topic of student engagement.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

This was followed by: 2) increased student engagement; 3) project-based learning for student instruction; 4) personalized learning; and 5) intervention for struggling students. OER versus paying for fully complete publisher products. Network infrastructure and readiness for day-to-day operations.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

They are now in their fifth year of 1:1 with iPads for grades K-12, and have designed learning environments to create student engagement. Pennsylvania on the other hand does not have a review process, but Elizabeth Forward School District in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania has transformed into a digital learning environment.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. At the same time, it must be remembered that all of the stages allow for technology interaction and increased student engagement. What might have been gained in regards to student learning because of the substitution?

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Hapara

JANUARY 28, 2022

Additionally, the platform provides seamless management and distribution of open educational resources ( OER ), licensed content and materials created by school divisions. They collaborated to design a dream tool that would streamline teacher workflow and deepen personalized learning and student engagement. Request a demo.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 13, 2016

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 12:00 pm (PDT): Opening Keynote Panel: Defining the Library as Classroom Michael Stephens, Michael Casey, Brian Kenney, Joyce Valenza, and Jessamyn West. 1:00 pm (PDT) Fast and Fit Brain Training: Through a Library Service Delivery Model, Year Two Patricia Shepard Sohmer, M.A.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Open Source and OER ? Practical Student Tools (Email / Calendars / Organizers) ? Alice Keeler : Interview Amany Kheriba : OER: A way out through pandemics and beyond Amna Manzoor : Veni, vidi and vici: Ingenious, Making the Most Out of the Pandemic! Libraries and Librarians ? Managing Stress ? Math Education ? Microschools ?

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

“We see technology as the means by which I can apply the benefits of teaching to far more people, and you can help free teachers up to spend more time with students, engaging students, learning from each other. So it’s going to be important that we track value-added, or progress-added.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Yildiz, Global Scholar STEM is Elementary - Sara Hunter, STEM Coach Using MathPickle Puzzles to Give the Gifts of Failure and Success - Dr. Gordon Hamilton Articulating the Essential Components of Inclusive STEM High Schools - Melanie LaForce, Lead Researcher Finding OERs to Support Adult Education Instruction - Penny Pearson Global Teaching with Technology (..)

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Open Educational Resources (OER) Products – OER course products are developed based on open resources and utilize instructional design and professional services. Gamification and Simulations – Gamification and simulation solutions go a long way to encourage engagement and collaboration.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Kevin Carey argues in Washington Monthly “Why More Colleges Should Treat Students Like Numbers ”: Students who log on to the LMS, download materials, click on lectures, and contribute to discussions are much less likely to drop out than students who don’t.

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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. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.

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