Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called 2017: RIP OER? , I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” ” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks.

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OER Pearson System Assessment 60

Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

By adopting e-books in your school or district, you can expand learning opportunities. E-textbooks also often include digital assessments. Students can take these assessments along the way while they’re reading. Formative assessments in digital textbooks can also break up longer content to make it easier to grasp.

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Download the free e-book 3. You’ll find learning goals, resources, formative assessments and extended learning opportunities. Digital citizenship: Grade 6 : This engaging middle school Workspace includes videos and a variety of activities and formative assessments to help learners understand the elements of digital citizenship.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Elementary OER 274

Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. The Michigan Open Book Project created this digital textbook for kindergarteners. There’s an accompanying teacher’s guide, several activity books and supplemental reading guides as well. .

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How To Classroom Common Core Hapara 130

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Books built out of little Lego blocks, glued together so the digital photo student could have their perfect book and the music student could have their perfect book.”

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Industry OER Course Company 106

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Booking Info – Time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Past Series Articles.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

His work has shown him that “it will definitely be a more sustainable initiative if it is collaborative—-whether it's OER, open access journals, etc.if OERs are often undervalued compared to their paid counterparts, posited Blake Gore of Vanderbilt University and Tanya Spilovy thinks librarians can help.

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Libraries Digital Learning OER Learning 143

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

Welcome to post number three in a series devoted to formative learning (assessment). Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

OER and open books. Sounds familiar—like a prior learning assessment. Two that shine are OER/open books and learning analytics. OER and open books also help keep course materials more affordable for students. Whether a platform, an app, a portal, or a device—it’s all bits and bytes at the core.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 92

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Also remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. Check out my Booking Page and as always… thanks so much! Open Education Resources – Talk about big, this network brings together 44,129 OER tools for sharing curriculum. Quick Notes.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. Pressbooks (Book Oven Inc. Lumen provides for-fee, value-added hosting, integration, assessment, messaging, and other services around openly licensed content. The first has to do with capacity.

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OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. Openly licensed educational resources are free online learning materials that can be used for teaching, learning and assessing students’ knowledge. Teachers and students at one district are replacing print with digital.

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iPad OER Meeting eBook 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Also, remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. Check out my Booking Page and as always… thanks so much! G is for Grounded in Assessment: The ABC’s of PBL … Building Blocks, Elements, & Compounds of Deeper Learning by Michael Gorman at [link].

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Assessment Conference Learning E-rate 99

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. million last year from the U.S. million in 2018.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 100

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. CK12 – Starting with their amazing free digital books is really just a start. Continue to explore all of the simulations, formative assessments, and lessons. My calendar is filling. You will feel the engagement.

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STEM Resources Learning Conference 162

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For some folks in higher ed, the very idea of using open educational resources (OER) sparks dread. The right OER provides professors opportunities to teach the latest research and even make areas like math and science more inclusive. EdSurge: Why are you such a proponent of OER in higher ed? And they weren't great books anyway.

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OER STEM Course Libraries 159

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

I wish you wouldn’t pin all hope on OER or content marketplaces or playlists as curriculum solutions. To be sure, there are gold nugget lessons within the vast OER and marketplace libraries, but finding them is difficult and time-consuming. More filler than fire-starter. Quantity over quality. How students lose track of time.

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EdTech OER Industry Study 102

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

See booking info and please contact me anytime at (mjgormans@gmail.com). Of course, there is still Flipped Learning, 1 to 1 Programs, Blended Learning, Maker Movements, Genious Hours, SAMR, Learning Targets, 21st Century Learning, the 4C’s, Personalised Learning, Digital Textbooks, and OER! Thanks so much.

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Resources OER Learning STEM 105

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Past Series Articles.

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Blendspace Resources OER Technology 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core. MARS – Classroom Challenges are lessons that support teachers in formative assessment.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through January and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. OER Commons. About: One of the largest data bases of OER (Open Education Resources) for free classroom use.

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Resources Tools Technology OER 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

I’ll be writing a range of essays this year reflecting on two decades of work toward opening the core intellectual infrastructure of education (textbooks and other educational materials, assessments, and outcomes / objectives / competency statements) in order to increase access to and improve the effectiveness of education. Freeriders!

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We have a similar problem in the open educational resources (OER) space. Many people are in the habit of referring to OER as a commons. OER are not like the shared resources at the center of traditional commons. However, OER are not CPRs. This principle fails to apply to OER in multiple ways. Ostrom’s 8.

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OER Resources Groups Accessibility 97

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Instructors can use this data to assess what additional supports students may need on their way to fully understanding each lesson. We hoped this tool would help us meet one of our learning goals to enhance the learning environment by increased use of innovative teaching techniques, interactive technologies, and assessment data.

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Learning OER Software Course 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Check out my Booking Page . What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

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. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” OER often shine in their variety and ability to deepen resources for niche topics. frequent formative assessment opportunities) can appear in educational resources with any copyright license.

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OER Instructional Materials Pearson Resources 60

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2019

I hope you’re aware of and looking forward to her upcoming book on Teaching Machines.) Citations below are from this book. Goclenius thus tacitly acknowledges the messiness and incoherence of his own book, no doubt produced in haste from his teaching notes.

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OER System Exercises Course 94

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 16, 2021

PRESENTATION TITLES: A Collection That Grows: Food Justice & Food Security in Public and Academic Libraries | Apoyo e Información en Tiempos de COVID | The library at the service of the community: describing Queretaro communities in Wikipedia | Spanish Language Civic & Community Engagement | The evolving role of an academic/university library (..)

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Libraries Conference OER Resources 36

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.

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Instructional Materials OER Student Data Privacy Broadband 387

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. The new text book might instead be the LMS (Learning Management System). ▪Textbooks and OER.

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Technology Flipped Classroom Learning STEM 60

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

Desired outcome (explore, apply, assess)? #2: –and search tools–Google Books, Images, Scholar, etc. They can also incorporate such content-rich resources as library databases, ebooks, videos, and the growing array of available OERs. Grade Level? Content Area(s)? Length of Lesson? Specific Objectives? Workshop Model.

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Handbook Google OER Adobe 49

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

Educational publishers, who till now had a steady stream of income compared to non-educational book publishers, due to the recurring need for textbooks every year by students, are now gradually shifting towards digital publishing. However, apart from making content available online, it is also necessary to make it affordable. a semester.

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OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 29, 2016

An antidote to the frequently narrowed curricula we see in modern school culture, school librarians introduce young people to a rich world of books and literature, options they can select themselves. We continue to evolve and lead as the tools of the information and communication landscapes emerge and evolve.

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Libraries OER Wiki BYOD 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Sign Up Now.

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Resources Technology Examples STEM 60

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. But here are some education-related stories: Via Education Week : “Privacy Experts Assess Potential K–12 Fallout From Facebook ’s Crisis of Trust.”

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46