Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 7, 2016

That’s the core idea between renewable assessments like Murder, Madness, and Mayhem, or Project Management for Instructional Designers , or Blogs vs Wikis , or the DS106 Assignment Bank , or The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature , and many of the other examples listed by the community here. But what happens to learning?

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 31, 2015

There is nothing about OER adoption that forces innovative teaching practices on educators. Sadly, many of the educators who choose OER end up driving them on the road, anyway. Mike Caufield’s work with federated wikis is a more radical example of teaching practices that are possible only in the context of open content.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. ” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine ). Over 1 billion openly licensed materials are published online.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

Bonk mentioned some early wiki work ( Wikibooks ) where noncredentialed users were prevalent. However, most people remain unaware of OER. I asked how open learning works for non-professionals, citing research showing many MOOC users are already professionals and/or academics. I followed up with a question about free as incentive.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 2, 2018

This wiki approach to a catalog encourages new information as well as corrections from the user community. Created in 2006 by a team led by Aaron Swartz and Brewster Kahle, Open Library is an Internet Archive project developed to present one web page for every book ever published. Recent enhancements allow for even more openness.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 29, 2016

These new collections support new literacies and leverage the new bounty of open educational resources (OER) supported by the White House’s #GoOpen initiative, as well as streamed media, and software for creating and sharing powerful, effectively, ethically produced digital stories.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Below you will find a link to the main 21stcenturyedtech Blog and also my wiki loaded with information entitled The 21centuryedtech Wiki. Digital Curriculum… 24 OER (Open Edu Resources) Free. I enjoy the opportunity to network with other people trying to articulate and accomplish the same vision. Resources From Michael Gorman.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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