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As Campuses Move to Embrace OER, College Libraries Become Key Players

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But who makes the pitch for free or low-cost alternatives to textbooks known as OER, or open educational resources? Take the University of Texas at Arlington, which has a full-time Open Education Librarian, Michelle Reed. The online library contains links to OER titles as well as reviews written by professors.

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Lumen Learning, a Proponent of OER, Makes First Acquisition to Offer Faculty Coaching

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Lumen Learning, a company that sells low-cost OER textbooks and courseware, plans to start offering professional development services for faculty that can be bundled with its titles. In other words, some of its textbooks are now sold with coaching on how to teach with OER more effectively.

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“ZTC Thinking” and the Hybrid OER Sustainability Model

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In the first installment on Monday, I explained how a fundamental failure to understand copyright makes the definition of OER in the new UNESCO recommendation nonsensical. In the second installment yesterday, I described how it appears that many in the OER community have taken their eye off the ball of student learning.

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OER is Growing at Religious Colleges, But Raises Unique Challenges

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Communications librarian Kristen Hoffman oversees much of the OER work at Seattle Pacific University, a Christian university in Washington. From January 2006 to July 2016, the price of college textbooks increased 88 percent , according to the U.S. “The She sees that gap as one opportunity for religious universities. “I

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As OER Grows Up, Advocates Stress More Than Just Low Cost

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But fans of OER are increasingly facing a problem. While OER started off as free online textbooks, it still costs money to produce these materials, and professors often need guidance finding which ones are high quality. So OER advocates are realizing they need to change their pitch. Listen to the EdSurge On Air podcast?

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OER Had Its Breakthrough in 2017. Next Year, It Will Become an Essential Teaching Tool

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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. Ohio University is doing the same.

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Open Educational Resources Are ‘Moving Up the Adoption Ladder’ Around the World

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OER was one of six “emerging technologies and practices” the panelists highlighted as most likely to significantly influence postsecondary teaching and learning in the future. It is moving up the adoption ladder,” says Susan Grajek, vice president of communities and research for Educause, of OER. “It That’s where incubators come in.

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