Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 19, 2023
I missed this when it was first published, but a few months ago Ithaka S+R shared the results of their Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2021. The survey went out to 145,099 randomly selected faculty members across the US and over 5% of invitees responded. Which would lead to an eve greater overestimation of OER use.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. Free Isn’t Free For students, OER texts are typically free, or nearly free.
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Edsurge
APRIL 18, 2018
A new report surveying academic administrators released Wednesday by the Online Learning Consortium and Learning House sheds some insight on innovation challenges at higher education institutions. By contrast, just 40 percent of survey respondents said they have a “dedicated budget for innovation.”
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 6, 2017
Teachers concur: in a recent survey by Education Week , just 18 percent of teachers strongly agreed that their materials are standards-aligned. Increasingly, ‘early mover’ districts support OER at a district level, to reflect constraints on teacher time. Each district allocated meaningful time for participants to drive the work.
Wired Campus
OCTOBER 28, 2015
College technology leaders appear more optimistic these days about open-source textbooks and open educational resources — teaching and learning materials that can be used at no cost. That was just one of the many findings in the survey, perhaps the largest annual sampling of the views of campus IT officials. IT leaders’ No.
Bryan Alexander
MARCH 5, 2016
Community colleges are much more interested in OER than other sectors. He mentioned the way academia referred to land grant institutions, community colleges, and online learning as “barbarians at the gate”, although we now accept them (mostly). A: CCP continues to evolve, complementing the EDUCAUSE Core Data Survey.
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
AUGUST 23, 2020
As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?
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