Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
Although they would eventually change their model to focus on traditionally copyrighted textbooks, FWK’s over 100 openly licensed textbooks can still be found archived around the web in places like the Open Textbook Library and the Saylor Foundation’s website. And it’s not only “newer” companies like Google or Facebook.
Digital Promise
JUNE 8, 2017
Start the Facebook live broadcast. That is until about five minutes into the session, when a hand in the audience went up asking, “Can you define what you mean by OERs?”. Define OERs. So I explained to my class that Open Educational Resources (OER) could be most easily defined as “free stuff on the Web.”
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Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 13, 2019
I’m pretty sure I saw an ad for those “special methods” on Facebook recently. Leonhardt explains: In many cases, several different [modern] libraries conserve copies of the same printed text, whereby the handwritten notes found in each copy are literally identical or very nearly so (p. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER.
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.
NeverEndingSearch
AUGUST 21, 2016
The CommonLit library of more than 440 readings may be browsed or searched by keyword and filtered by such criteria as: recent additions, Lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device demonstrated, and Common Core Reading: Literature standards. Commonlit.org | Facebook. CommonLit on Twitter. Sign Up for the CommonLit Newsletter.
Edsurge
JANUARY 9, 2018
One crucial part of the decision is out of the students’ hands, of course, since it is the professor who decides what textbook or material to assign—or whether to skip commercial textbooks altogether and assign a free or low-cost open educational resource, or OER. a semester. I thought it was just as helpful as any other textbook.”
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Please spread the word and tell people about the Summit forward this email , or post on social media Hashtag: #homelearningsummit Twitter: @homelearnsummit Facebook: @homelearningsummit Instagram: homelearningsummit HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS WE ARE WORKING TO COVER IN THE SUMMIT TALKS, INTERVIEWS, AND OPEN-CHAT TIMES : ADHD and Learning ?
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