Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Open educational resources (OER) have long been touted as “the next big thing” in higher education, but the drawn-out hype has led many educators and administrators to wonder if it would ever live up to its expectations. Those days are over: 2017 was OER’s breakthrough year. That happened in 2017. Ohio University is doing the same.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2018

Can open educational resources, or OER, truly create more equity and access? That was the question at the heart of our #DLNchat on January 9, which centered around OER in Higher Education. Creative Commons or GNU, that specify how the resource may be reused, adapted, and shared.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2019

When feedback comes too long after you practice, it’s difficult to understand how to apply it to your current practice. . But – particularly when it comes to OER – we aren’t. Can you name a single OER project that does assessment at all (and I don’t mean PDFs of quizzes)? Everything Old is New… Again.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. Learners will read about and discuss rules, decision-making and how to socialize in the classroom. It also includes feedback for learners when they answer formative assessment questions. Find out how H?para

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

As momentum for digital learning builds, some districts—80 percent according to the 2017 Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) K12 IT Leadership Survey Report —are using open educational resources (OER), which the U.S. But while many benefits of OER are visible on the surface, we must notice the fine print.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 10, 2016

Because I can’t stop thinking about open, I’ve been pondering the relationship between solar power and OER. At the same time, I’ve been thinking about how to answer several questions I’m often asked. ”, “How can you sell OER if they’re free? OER are a lot like sunlight.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 12, 2015

He writes, “While to an OER advocate faculty are mere pawns to their agenda, to publishers, faculty are critical partners in academic success.” ” The overwhelming majority of OER advocates are faculty, and they have become OER advocates for two reasons.

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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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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

When you teach digital citizenship, you teach learners how to use the internet responsibly. Digital commerce : Teaching learners how to safely make purchases online and discover careers that they can pursue in e-commerce. Digital literacy : Teaching learners how to evaluate online sources and give proper credit to sources.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. If OER adoption were to become widespread among the majority of faculty, it became clear that someone would need to do something more than create OER, post it on a website, and give conference talks about it. Background and Some Problems.

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techlearning

AUGUST 8, 2018

Guest post by Steve Baule, Educational Leadership Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Superior: As the school year begins, one of the struggles many teachers have is finding good repositories of Open Education Resources (OER). The OER Commons is a core site with resources from pre-school through adult education.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

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. There are several high-quality OER sites that feature digital textbooks for K-12.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

We at Designers for Learning responded to this call by inviting instructional designers, developers, and adult educators to join a crowdsourcing effort to develop free open educational resources (OER) for adults with low math and literacy skills. Department of Education that establish learning achievement goals for math and literacy.

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Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

I said my piece in the updated article that spurred my original comment (including that the service the company in question provides looks “interesting and valuable,” especially in the context of the K-12 assessment market). The Pro-OER Elephant Test. Open is the New Green.

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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. A key role of ERLC is to facilitate the effective implementation of curricula, including instruction, assessment, and student learning outcomes. Wayne Poncia, CEO.

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 18, 2024

Within the time frame of one full day of training, I can get teachers to think about assessing prompts over products. Rather than rely on these tools we need to rethink the process and what we ask students to produce. Which is a start to the shift that is needed. CTE programs hold a special place in my heart.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

That seemed to resonate with the group, and conversations around how to go beyond open materials into more open teaching methods continued throughout the day. Before closing the keynote talk, Mitchell left listeners with another question: Is open content enough?

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2012 Kim Thanos and I founded Lumen Learning because, through our Gates-funded work on the Kaleidoscope Project, we had seen first-hand how hard it was for faculty to replace publisher materials with OER. It seemed like lots of people wanted to publish and share their own OER, but no one wanted to use anyone else’s.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

With embedded glossaries and formative online assessments, they can self-monitor. Digital textbooks also include links for extra practice and enrichment, giving students a choice for how they want to learn. You can find these digital textbooks on open educational resource (OER) sites. Affordable for school districts.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

Open Educational Resources (OER): Lumen Learning’s David Wiley recently predicted that OER will eradicate textbooks in community colleges by 2024, forcing companies to redefine “affordable” with new products, such as MindTap ACE from Cengage. Others have entered the rental game with an “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” mentality.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. The question we pondered was how to preserve these gains as teachers modified BHP courses, and specific lessons evolved over time. Yet, the goal across BHP’s activities and assessment is consistency. Full size image here.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 12, 2022

Change is so complicated and messy there’s an entire discipline dedicated to trying to understand how to successfully support and manage change. And because students and faculty are people, they are likely to be uncomfortable with – and even resistant to – change.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER. It wraps pre-assessments, in situ formative assessments, and summative assessments around OER. Like Waymaker, OHM wraps these and other features around OER. No one is ever denied access to the OER in Lumen courses for any reason.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This list helps me decide what content to create and how to best help teachers in 2023. Google Classroom has improved vastly over the years, and teachers have learned how to make the most of this flexible assignment manager and communication hub. How to Create Stop Motion Animation Activities for Students with Google Slides – SULS0179.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 18, 2021

Our challenge is… how to break down the classroom walls even more with the technology we have today. The standards and skills are constantly assessed in a variety of ways involving numerous stake holders. Most of all, there is an alignment between standards, skills, and assessment. Student self-assessment is powerful.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

Open educational resources (OER) have saved students at the University of Georgia (UGA) nearly $2 million in textbook costs alone over the past three years. Rather than roll out a broad campaign to promote OER on campus, the center is focused on working with individual faculty members who teach large enrollment courses, Watson says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Specifically, it will help them prepare for and teach their courses through several phases—ideation, design, assessment, facilitation, reflection and research. BBookX uses artificial intelligence to create OER texts for professors to use in their courses instead of traditional textbooks.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Teacher librarians also show young people how to curate around their own interests and how to create launchpads to manage their information worlds. 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.

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Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

Ask questions that assess how a leader integrates and dictates technology into his/her projects and to those he/she leads. Observe how your students interact with technology and make sure they know how to properly use their devices. Digitally Mature Leaders . Robust and well designed infrastructure.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2019

Related: How to find, curate, and assess OER. Are you going to send links? Will they be shared in a Classroom or perhaps posted to a website? Consider these questions as you select a tool or app.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2020

How might some of these look in a blended classroom? OER Commons : ( [link] ) – Wonderful place to find lessons and blended learning ideas that can cover standards that fit into a PBL or just a single lesson. The possibilities are endless and remember, the teacher does not have to know how to use tools students select.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In regard to Creativity, check out my last post, which covers facilitating and assessing Creativity in the classroom. OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free. You will look at Math in a whole new STEAMie way.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

G is for Grounded in Assessment: The ABC’s of PBL … Building Blocks, Elements, & Compounds of Deeper Learning by Michael Gorman at [link]. The standards and skills are constantly assessed in a variety of ways involving numerous stake holders. Most of all, there is an alignment between standards, skills, and assessment.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

Figure out how to boil down a big subject into scaffolded, age-appropriate and differentiated chunks. If you had that firsthand experience of this enormously daunting task, I’m convinced your perspective on how to “disrupt” education would change profoundly. How students lose track of time. At least once. In a public school.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Tagged on: March 8, 2017 New Solutions—Not Just New Winners—In the Curriculum Marketplace | New America → Innovative uses of OER offer an entirely new way of answering the question of how we solve for inefficiencies in the curriculum marketplace, rather than just advocating for new winners.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 17, 2018

They can include interactive elements and assessments of progress. Have them create original content and assessments as well. How To Create Learning Playlists In A Textbook World by Terry Heick in TeachThought. OER and you: The curation mandate. They may be intentionally sequenced or designed to inspire choice.

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