Edsurge
MAY 23, 2017
David Wiley, a pioneer of open education resources who co-founded Lumen Learning , a for-profit company that supports OER efforts, sees one place where textbooks could actually be vanquished by openly licensed alternatives: community colleges. I think that the biggest barrier is just that people don’t know that OER exists.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
MAY 17, 2024
Our first Learning Revolution summit on AI: " Teaching and Learning with AI ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, June 27th, 2024, from 12:00 - 2:30 pm US-Pacific Time. We have just added a new keynote panelist, and you will also find the list of current session proposals below. There are over 3,000 participants registered.
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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. And that’s essentially where innovation stopped.
Iterating Toward Openness
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
For many years now what people call OER advocacy has actually been “zero textbook cost” advocacy. So for the last decade or so there has been a lot of energy devoted to either “OER programs with a laser focus on cost savings” or “zero textbook cost” programs.
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.
Hack Education
MAY 26, 2017
Via Edsurge : “OER Pioneer David Wiley Predicts All Community Colleges Will Dump Traditional Textbooks By 2024.” ” (I’ll keep track of this via my new project that tracks these sorts of predictions about the future.
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